Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 Often the volume of urgent management business at a governors ' meeting is so great that the welfare of children in a caring environment can become a marginal issue .
2 This is a very out of focus picture of a drapers ' shop .
3 After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar .
4 For Norwich , without a goal since December 5 , this third successive blank gave more ammunition to those who haughtily dismiss their title challenge as a peasants ' revolt from the shires .
5 Namibia requested some US$270,000,000 for each year of its 1990-92 reconstruction programme at a donors ' conference in New York on June 21-22 .
6 The JUSTICE report , A Proposal for a Suitors ' Fund , advocates a more radical reform by suggesting that public funds should be used to indemnify litigants against ‘ faults in the system ’ amongst which it included appeals on fact or law .
7 Coincidence or whatever , in the newspaper one day the following week , there was an advertisement for an art history teacher at a boys ' public school ( that 's a private one in this country ) in Oxfordshire .
8 That was great when you were a unit manager for a Directors ' Boardroom , but it 's not right now for a work 's canteen .
9 There was no inherent or common-law jurisdiction in a magistrates ' court to order rehearing of a case which had already been decided ( R. v. Campbell , ex. p .
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