Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The folk of these towns and villages took their convicted witches , stood them in pitch-filled barrels and set them afire : in Forres stands a witches ' stone , site of such burnings — in thunder , lightning , or in rain ? |
| 2 | ANC officials called for police help during the weekend of April 13-14 when some 500 armed Inkatha supporters attacked a workers ' hostel near the Mandelas ' home in Soweto . |
| 3 | A TORY council yesterday failed in a High Court bid to halt a teachers ' boycott of school tests . |
| 4 | Retailer Dixons includes a directors ' responsibilities statement on a separate page with the auditors ' report . |
| 5 | Japan , which was expected to pay the largest share of the UN 's cost in Cambodia , had announced its intention to organize a donors ' conference in Tokyo before March 1992 . |
| 6 | Whilst some schools have a teachers ' library the range of resources available seems poor . |
| 7 | In 1950 the Circuit organized a Veterans ' Tea , held in Thomas Street Lecture Hall on Thursday 26 October . |
| 8 | As far as the school was concerned , the fact that so many parents attended a parents ' evening was ‘ an indication of the kind of area we are dealing with … where parents are interested in their children 's education and want to play as full a part as possible . ’ |
| 9 | Gomez , Thing , Uncle Fester and Co enjoy a ghouls ' night out in the big-budget movie The Addams Family . |
| 10 | At about 11.05 , Mr Maxwell 's solicitors handed a bankers ' draft , drawn on Midland Bank , to the liquidators ' solicitor Margaret Cole . |
| 11 | Before they were finished , the first charges went off and the place became a hornets ' nest . |
| 12 | The meeting established an officers ' co-ordination council , of about 100 elected members , to put the army 's point of view in CIS negotiations on military and strategic issues . |
| 13 | A good deal of discussion focussed , in the early meetings , on whether and how to reduce the ‘ all-pervading ’ influence of the subject boards , and at its second meeting discussed an officers ' draft paper which sought to undermine the boards and considered the pros and cons of the CNAA relating primarily to institutions as a whole . |
| 14 | The team had a supporters ' club in which local women were represented . |
| 15 | Important matters exceeding the ambit of day-to-day business require a members ' resolution , and all resolutions must be entered in a ‘ Book of Resolutions ’ . |
| 16 | Following this was the rodeo World Championships on the Bitches which decided at the last minute to include a ladies ' competition . |
| 17 | Like every other lively class the Topper has an owners ' association which organizes rallies , open meetings , national and international championships . |
| 18 | The race includes a ladies ' race , the first lady taking about five minutes longer to cover the distance . |
| 19 | Quigly , Willis and Frome — it would have formed a sufficiently high-sounding trio of names to grace a solicitors ' firm . |
| 20 | Another happy collaboration between the Sports Council 's Greater London and South East Region Movement and Dance Liaison Group and the Westminster City Council resulted in a superb participatory weekend of movement and dance held at the Seymour Leisure Centre , 24–25 October , at which the Medau Society provided a Teachers ' Workshop and a Recreational Class , both taught by Margaret Charlwood . |
| 21 | According to Connor , Hampson threatened a players ' strike unless the travel ban was lifted but after a rebuke from Chapman acquiesced in the situation . |
| 22 | On July 22 , 1991 , the government published a Citizens ' Charter intended to improve public services [ see p. 38355 ] . |
| 23 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 24 | In the family proceedings court a justices ' clerk or a single justice may make , vary or revoke directions and may refer any matter to the full court for consideration . |
| 25 | City Diary : Jackson 's new brief breaks a solicitors ' barrier |
| 26 | A spokesman for Ferranti said Sir Derek had no reason to fear a shareholders ' revolt and there were no indications that there would be one . |
| 27 | Coventry manager Gould was advised by West Brom chairman Trevor Summers not to go because police feared a fans ' backlash after Gould 's sacking by the club last season . |
| 28 | Rufus had an out-patients ' clinic and then a ward round , in the afternoon a very frightened woman to see in Wimpole Street , a woman who needed his kind reassurance , his urbane ways , the proffered cigarette , the support . |
| 29 | A STRABANE mum organising a parents ' boycott of the new 11-plus exam has been threatened with legal action by the Department of Education . |
| 30 | At the conclusion of the business Councillor Fraser chaired a Gardeners ' Roadshow when a panel of five experts answered a series of questions submitted prior to the meeting . |