Example sentences of "a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | Every hour after the operation , a nurse took his temperature and plotted it on a progress ' graph . |
| 32 | If she is over 60 when her husband dies , she will usually receive a retirement pension rather than a widows ' pension . |
| 33 | On Wednesdays Karen will be at Suffolk College , Ipswich with a beginners ' class and the full day course , again on the ribber , is to be on Fridays at Thorpe High School , Clacton . |
| 34 | 12 Learn how to use a map and compass on a beginners ' Pathfinder day organised by the Yorkshire Dales National Park . |
| 35 | There 's soon to be a beginners ' wall as well , but the most impressive construction is an immense leading wall built by DR Climbing Walls . |
| 36 | the expert sailers say its not a beginners ' boat but will give an exciting performance … they think it will be a good test of skill … and it 's a great boat to sail … it 's fantastic … just the craft to be in |
| 37 | Tramp nightclub owner Johnny Gold lives out a housewives ' fantasy in the arms of the exotic Chippendale hunks on his camp Christmas card . |
| 38 | My parish priest had always dreamed of building outstation churches and , with the luxury of two curates , here was his chance to convert one into a builders ' labourer ! |
| 39 | Take very careful measurements before buying your replacement through a builders ' merchant or fireplace specialist . |
| 40 | One the way , however , I cam across a builders ' merchant which had a sign up , saying ‘ Reclaimed materials sold ’ . |
| 41 | He was educated at the local church school then , at the age of twelve , went to work for a builders ' business in Lancaster . |
| 42 | On the other side of the road at the front of the house a builders ' skip was full to the brim . |
| 43 | JOHN Trussler , the president of the Chartered Institute of Building renewed his call to the Chancellor for a Builders ' Budget while in Darlington yesterday . |
| 44 | STEPHEN Jones indecently assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a Cardiff park after offering to show her a birds ' nest . |
| 45 | The Tropical Forestry Action Plan ( TFAP ) , which is seen by some as a loggers ' charter , is to be reformed . |
| 46 | One of the greatest players ever to put on a Spurs ' jersey I would think . |
| 47 | Ten times he went into Test battle with them , winning once in 1977 in a Lions ' jersey , and his experience and example will be crucial when the revamped , and increasingly successful , Gwent side meet the tourists in 13 days time . |
| 48 | In a widely publicised incident a few months later Ben , diagnosed as schizophrenic , climbed into a lions ' cage at London Zoo . |
| 49 | This means that instead of a Lions ' debut being guaranteed for the 10-times-capped Garryowen player against Canterbury in Christchurch on Wednesday week , he might miss the match . |
| 50 | Phil Bennett 's overall for a Lions ' scorer with his 18 points and equalled another record . |
| 51 | Item No. 6 : looks like a jewellers ' blow torch , having a fine patination . |
| 52 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 53 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 54 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 55 | THE Official Receiver of UK Land 's £60 million Northampton Business Park has called a creditors ' meeting . |
| 56 | First , the nominee must advise the court if a creditors ' meeting should be summoned ; if so , then the period of the interim order is extended to give time for the meeting to take place . |
| 57 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 58 | a creditors ' voluntary winding up . |
| 59 | A voluntary winding up may be a members ' winding up or a creditors ' winding up . |
| 60 | The financial circumstances of the company will determine which it is to be ; a creditors ' winding up will normally occur where the directors fail to register a declaration of solvency and the majority of creditors agree to petition the court for a dissolution of the company . |