Example sentences of "[noun sg] for boys " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same period a man with seventeen years of experience as apprentice and officer in tankers , passenger- and tramp steamers all over the world was at the height of a career as a popular author of tales which bore the legend ‘ a story for boys ’ on title-pages as well as on dust-jackets . |
| 2 | A formal investigation by the Equal Opportunities Commission on West Glamorgan schools showed that there was separate curricular provision for boys and girls in the areas of craft , design and technology ( boys ) and home economics ( girls ) . |
| 3 | Many of the questions are of different difficulty for boys and girls . |
| 4 | ( Six years later , according to the Life , Johnson ‘ harangued ’ at Joshua Reynolds 's house ‘ upon the qualities of different liquors ’ , and coined the much-quoted ‘ Claret is the liquor for boys ; port , for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy . ’ ) |
| 5 | EVER since Dr Johnson observed that ‘ claret is the liquor for boys and port for men ’ , Portugal 's gloriously rich and robust wine has been arousing feelings just as strong as itself . |
| 6 | While the 1923 Report to the Board of Education by the Consultative Committee on differentiating the curriculum for boys and girls in secondary schools was not convinced as to ‘ clear and ascertained differences between the sexes on which education policy may be readily based ’ , it stressed the danger of ‘ over pressure ’ in the education of girls . |
| 7 | As the ultimate luxury , hairdressers Molton Brown have created a men-only salon for boys to get a haircut in peace ! |
| 8 | She has run a Beavers Club for boys aged six and seven since she founded it 27 years ago . |
| 9 | Whereas 106.7 boys were born for every 100 girls in 1985 , by 1990 the figure for boys had risen to 110.3 . |
| 10 | This shows a percentage decline since 1951 ( when the corresponding figure for boys was 29% , or 38% including direct grant schools ) ; during this period , there was a substantial increase in absolute numbers over the minimum leaving age in independent schools , but this was overshadowed by a much larger increase , proportionately as well as absolutely , in maintained schools . |
| 11 | WREXHAM FC Junior Reds will hold a coaching session between 6 and 8pm on June 23 at the Racecourse for boys and girls aged five to 15 . |
| 12 | Let it not be spoke by of the system that during the period of as for exercise it was nice cold weather a public warning had been and so far this uses the same apartment every evening at prayer time and there selfish mind work a general publication for boys contain a special clause by authority of the board in which they repeatedly made good , virtuous , protected , obedient as regarded to a the powers of wickedness as an article direct from |
| 13 | Paraphrases can only capture part of what these significances represent : A represents something like " things which children have to learn in order to communicate " ; B — " features of buildings ( grand and ecclesiastical ) " ; C — " features of buildings ( plain and domestic ) " ; D — " outdoor terrain for boys ' amusements " ; E — " grand architectural features " , and so on . |
| 14 | It would seem then , that girls act , and ‘ agree ’ to act , as a negative reference group for boys , thus enhancing boys ' images of themselves . |
| 15 | Alex attended a similar establishment for boys ten miles away and visited her at every weekend exeat . |
| 16 | One thing that marks the Carpenters out is their uncanny fondness for incorporating the names of distaff families into their own ; from the early days of the 18th century we can spot the Frome and Rodden Carpenters by their use of the name ‘ Thynn ’ as a first or second Christian name for boys , and even in the middle years of the 19th century a branch of the family in London called one son Starmer Thynne Carpenter . |
| 17 | Mr Tholen is a governor and trustee of Yarm School and says : ‘ The one thing the area was lacking when I came was day education for boys . |
| 18 | The cumulative national rate of circumcision for boys by the age of 15 is almost 7% . |
| 19 | Levels of recorded crime certainly did shoot up in the years following the implementation of the 1933 Act , and the crime rate for boys under 14 years of age found guilty of indictable offences almost doubled in only three years . |
| 20 | THE HIT : Highly expensive girls style magazine for boys launched by IPC , gulp , which flopped a big ‘ un . |
| 21 | Hoffman-Bustamente has argued that these differing patterns of socialisation and social control for boys and girls have tended to concentrate those women who do break the law into certain categories of offence . |
| 22 | Meredith Jones had begun a youth centre for boys and girls . |
| 23 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 24 | In fact a continuum of behaviour emerged which explains more fully the teacher preference for boys . |
| 25 | Current socio-psychological discussions of school and gender have focused on the consequences of gender stereotyping for boys and girls . |
| 26 | The mayhem continues on Altern 8 's remix of ‘ Music For Boys ’ . |
| 27 | Music For Boys ( see above ) , music for girls , music for the people . |
| 28 | He read extensively in science , social economy , and religion , became involved in local charitable activities , and was especially interested in the Wellesley training ship for boys on the Tyne . |
| 29 | In 1909 she founded Na Fíanna , an organization for boys , to whom she taught drilling and the use of arms . |
| 30 | The syntactic information for boy and +s below could be combined by a word grammar to produce the syntactic information for boys : e.g. |