Example sentences of "[prep] girl ' [noun] [prep] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 A Comparison of Girls ' Comics from 1983 and 1993
5 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 .
6 There 's a list of girls ' names in here .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 These show that there has been a gradual improvement in girls ' performance in mathematics relative to that of boys .
10 This chapter will look at the different explanations that have been put forward for girls ' 'failure' in education , and at some of the research that has been done in this area .
11 I read long-forgotten authors of books about girls ' schools in Switzerland or Paris , as well as Angela Brazil , Noel Streatfield , Pamela Brown and , above all , Enid Blyton .
12 If girls are taught from an early age that science is a subject to be studied by all pupils , and is not ‘ only for the boys ’ , then some of the problems relating to girls ' under-achievement in science in the secondary school will be resolved ( Equal Opportunities Commission 1982 : 4 )
13 Observation in labs and workshops highlighted the depressing effect on girls ' performance of the boys ' claim to science as their subject .
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