Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] girl ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of classroom observation encouraged some teachers to observe each other , and one group , for example , began some research on girls ' talk . |
| 2 | Observation in labs and workshops highlighted the depressing effect on girls ' performance of the boys ' claim to science as their subject . |
| 3 | She might have been the headmistress of a certain type of girls ' school , now almost extinct , or a Mother Superior in an enclosed order . |
| 4 | There is some evidence that in mixed-sex classrooms teachers give more attention to boys , to the detriment of girls ' learning . |
| 5 | BRITISH GAS ON THE BALL WITH GIRLS ' SOCCER |
| 6 | Boys ' education is seen as likely to bring direct economic benefit to the family and so is given priority over girls ' education . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Lyn Yates ( 1985 ) suggests that this type of deficit approach , which in effect blames the victim , is also the most common approach to girls ' schooling . |
| 9 | When we were first creating the model for girls ' work , those of us who are white , both lesbian and heterosexual , developed work that was racist , that is , based on our ideas about how sexism affected white girls , and what kind of provision white girls might need . |
| 10 | These show that there has been a gradual improvement in girls ' performance in mathematics relative to that of boys . |
| 11 | The Girls and Mathematics Unit has carried out a substantial number of project on girls ' classroom performance in Mathematics , spanning nursery to secondary schools . |