Example sentences of "[verb] girls ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many mentioned the practical steps they had already devised : altering curriculum materials , deliberately avoiding the use of stereotyped language , studying patterns of classroom interaction and thinking of ways to increase girls ' participation . |
| 2 | Someone 's hand had torn away three quarters of the days of the desktop calendar and filled a wastebasket with them , and someone had written girls ' names and telephone numbers on the blotters . |
| 3 | In addition , two female science students who had attended girls ' grammar schools felt that they had been disadvantaged : |
| 4 | Other researchers , such as Clarricoates ( 1978 ) and Stanworth ( 1981 ) , found that teachers tend to spend more time talking to boys , and that they have more difficulty remembering girls ' names . |
| 5 | The heroines here are not the rebels who step out of line to protest against their condition , but the conformers , those who are preoccupied with romance , pop icons and their appearances ; those who read girls ' magazines like Jackie and Just Seventeen and want to be dancers ; those who cope , while only teenagers themselves , with being single mothers . |
| 6 | It would be a short sighted solution to try to remedy this bias by showing mathematics operating in the domestic realm to the same extent as it operates outside it , just to draw girls ' interest . |
| 7 | A small , fat , rich man sat ogling girls ' legs : he was there most days and represented everything Camille most despised : she thought that he imagined he was living in a Continental fashion . |
| 8 | All young women who attend girls ' nights at their youth centre , or who go to girls ' days and weekends , and every woman youthworker involved ( whether in single-sex or mixed settings ) is likely to get labelled a lesbian . |
| 9 | Poly Styrene wore plastic and shrieked , the lead singer of the phallocentrically named group Penetration was a woman called Pauline and there was the only all-female punk groups , The Slits , who were years ahead of their time , wearing girls ' dresses , subverting traditional female rock images and appearing on the cover of the NME dressed only in loincloths and smeared in mud . |
| 10 | It appears that if girls ' interests are catered for , if teachers become aware of the need for careful classroom management to ensure girls ' participation , if the social and human implications of science and technology are stressed , girls will respond positively . |
| 11 | It might be argued that a tacit assumption of research which examines girls ' 'failure' in science is not only that girls are inadequate-not measuring up to the standard of boys — but also that maths , physics and chemistry are more difficult and more important than English , languages , history and biology . |
| 12 | ‘ Science ’ and ‘ technology ’ cover a very wide range of occupations , and in practice policy makers may have little idea of either the extent of skill shortages or how to redirect girls ' energies towards these . |
| 13 | We are interested in approaching girls ' schools in Greater London ( be they private or state , comprehensive or single-sex ) which have a science tradition . |
| 14 | Angela told me not to worry ; Mr Tiller was used to seeing girls ' legs . |
| 15 | Bohunt girls ' football team are just completing their first full season and remain undefeated . |
| 16 | Bad books include those that limit girls ' ideas of their independence and self-determination . |
| 17 | In 1894 she was appointed assistant commissioner to the royal commission on secondary education under James ( later Viscount ) Bryce [ q.v. ] to investigate girls ' education in Devon . |
| 18 | Griffin further argued that it was wrong to attempt to explain girls ' experience by trying to fit them into models derived from studies of male youth . |
| 19 | Just as these explanations had concentrated on the inadequacy of working-class culture and had put forward the notion of compensatory education , so the tendency of feminists was to explain girls ' failure in terms of the deficiencies of their socialization . |
| 20 | He wrote girls ' phone numbers in the back of the book so that she would think the stars were for something else if she snooped around . |
| 21 | The project team collaborated with teachers in eight co-educational comprehensive schools in the Greater Manchester area to devise and implement intervention strategies designed to improve girls ' attitudes to the physical sciences and technical subjects . |
| 22 | Girls Into Science and Technology ( GIST ) was the first major schools-based project addressing problems of sex stereotyping at school , and was an example of ‘ action research ’ in education ; the project simultaneously took action to improve girls ' achievement in science and technology and investigated the reasons for their under-achievement . |
| 23 | If the staff of a school are required to ‘ do something about equal opportunities ’ and have read that a single-sex environment improves girls ' performance in mathematics and science , there may well be the belief that once they have reorganised their classes in this way , they have done all that is necessary . |
| 24 | In the 1970s the company expanded into Northampton where it makes girls ' shoes , ladies ' shoes and men 's sandals . |