Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [noun] [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some teachers not only was this difficult to plan and implement as an organizational strategy per se , but the increased demands imposed on them by the strategy meant that their opportunities for systematic and sustained monitoring of children 's progress were further reduced , while at the same time the increased levels of movement and disturbance in the classroom might adversely affect children 's concentration and time on task . |
| 2 | In her enlarged edition of The Nursery Years ( 1932 ) , when the Children 's Bureau was still advising mechanical restraints for thumbsucking , Susan Isaacs preferred extra play and companionship , and — incredible immorality ! — ‘ substitute pleasure , in the shape of a good boiled sweet ’ . |
| 3 | His expertise as a children 's bookseller was highly valued by his colleagues , and he made a great contribution over a number of years to the work of the BA 's Children 's Executive , as a member and , more recently , as a vice-chairman . |
| 4 | The CADS men 's epeeists were best placed team of the competition . |
| 5 | The departments which employed men were paid above the minimum wage and men 's jobs were invariably classified as more skilled activities . |
| 6 | Family planning was in the air ; newspapers and women 's magazines were openly discussing family planning by the 1930s in a manner which would have been considered outrageous just ten years before . |
| 7 | The women 's meals were always served in the home of Sheikha Grandmother whether that home was a tent , an areesh , a bungalow , or , as it eventually proved , a palace . |
| 8 | Mundemba 's local technical college and women 's centre was also visited and tools , equipment and relevant training were provided . |
| 9 | In accepting that the world occupied by a majority of adult women would be different from that of men , feminists distinguished themselves from the mainstream of opinion only by their refusal to accept that women 's role was thereby rendered inferior . |
| 10 | The movement for women 's emancipation was also spreading its wings , sending ripples of anxiety through British society which were not unassociated with the common allegations of mounting parental irresponsibility and the decline of family life . |
| 11 | And those Women 's Mags were always telling you |
| 12 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 13 | The reasons for resisting women 's suffrage were equally entrenched in traditional prejudice , as we would judge it with hindsight , but they were nonetheless sincerely felt for all that . |
| 14 | Since most Western societies are liberal in outlook , cherishing the proposition that ‘ we 're all individuals ’ , it is not surprising that the early , uncompromising identification of sexism with women 's oppression was quickly challenged and replaced with the notion of individuals being oppressed by their restrictive sex roles . |
| 15 | Though the original clauses were eventually restored , feminists and women 's organizations were deeply split on the issue of increased police powers . |