Example sentences of "[prep] girls ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baby book gives us another glimpse into parents ' and societies ' attitudes towards girls ' bodies with the comment that Alison is ‘ prudish ’ about her body at ten , and the noting of her ‘ slight breast development ’ . |
| 2 | The odd simile suited her own peculiar mode of speech , so full of girls ' boarding-school slang and the coarse expressions which troubled Ludens . |
| 3 | Maude Stanley , for example , a founder of girls ' clubs , voiced the wider social anxiety about the role of girls in the alleged deterioration of the race and the threat of over-population among the working class . |
| 4 | During the project there was a shift away from locating the issue as one of girls ' motivation towards attempts to change the nature of school science . |
| 5 | They argued that most of girls ' lives were not conducted on the street in any case , and that it was necessary to study them in their homes instead . |
| 6 | No study looks systematically either at the role of girls vis-à-vis masculine delinquency , or at the possible importance of girls ' groups in female deviancy . |
| 7 | She suggests a synthesis between the two approaches which looks at the diversity of girls ' educational experiences , and the ways in which schoolchildren challenge class and gender controls . |
| 8 | As Walkerdine ( 1987 ) has argued , qualities generally attributed to girls , such as industriousness and diligence , are often cited by teachers and researchers as examples of girls ' weaknesses in education . |
| 9 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |
| 10 | Also in this category , but published for the first time in this volume , is the article Jackie And Just Seventeen which not only records changes in the content of girls ' magazines over the 80s ( since McRobbie 's original analysis of the late 70s , also included here ) but registers theoretical developments as well through its attention to the ways in which girls as readers both construct their own meanings and interact with the texts . |
| 11 | She was a governor of University College London , the London School of Medicine , and a number of girls ' schools . |
| 12 | Doctors believed that the development of girls ' reproductive systems took place primarily at the time of menstruation and , in keeping with Spencer 's belief in the need to conserve energy in order to ensure healthy reproductive development , advised rest for teenage girls . |
| 13 | It recommended that the pace of girls ' education be slowed , that physical education reflect the need of girls for ‘ smoothness and expressiveness ’ and of boys for ‘ strength and energy ’ , and that allowance be made for the effect of menstruation , which condemned many girls ‘ to a recurring and temporary diminution of general mental efficiency ’ . |
| 14 | She might have been the headmistress of a certain type of girls ' school , now almost extinct , or a Mother Superior in an enclosed order . |
| 15 | There is some evidence that in mixed-sex classrooms teachers give more attention to boys , to the detriment of girls ' learning . |
| 16 | Public schools were defined as those belonging to the Headmasters ' Conference , Governing Bodies Association or Governing Bodies of Girls ' Schools Association . |
| 17 | Girls ' Schools Association ( GSA ) and Governing Bodies of Girls ' Schools Association ( GBGSA ) |
| 18 | A Comparison of Girls ' Comics from 1983 and 1993 |
| 19 | There 's a list of girls ' names in here . |
| 20 | Feminists are also starting to investigate specific characteristics of younger and older female subjects , like girls ' strong and prolonged cross-sex identification , and older women 's childcare skills . |
| 21 | She visited Durham to see a friend and fell in love with the city and began to help with girls ' clubs in Durham and Sunderland . |
| 22 | BRITISH GAS ON THE BALL WITH GIRLS ' SOCCER |
| 23 | What power he had , what admiration he extorted , what looks there were in girls ' eyes . |
| 24 | A boy on a girl 's back , boy in girls ' shoes and a girl in boy 's shoes , girl in a boy 's sweater . |
| 25 | In girls ' work , for example , we began to learn from our experiences and commit ourselves to ensuring that facilities were genuinely available also to Jewish young women — that we tackled anti-Semitism ; that young women with disabilities were not excluded , and that we looked at our oppressive attitudes to disability and the institutions in which these were enshrined . |
| 26 | I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools . |
| 27 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 28 | These show that there has been a gradual improvement in girls ' performance in mathematics relative to that of boys . |
| 29 | For example , in the old 16+ system , despite a gradual improvement in girls ' achievements ( see , for example , the table below ) , each year more boys than girls were entered for O level mathematics , and of those who entered , a higher proportion of boys than girls obtained grade A. At CSE , the entry ( and pass ) rate of girls has in recent years been higher than that of boys — but boys have obtained the most grade I passes . |
| 30 | The Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 provided the legal basis for equal opportunities for girls , but the ‘ radical changes ’ in girls ' curriculum choices have not yet been introduced . |