Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 There still remains the primary need for all agreements , however limited in scope , which affect the partners to be set down clearly and exhaustively in writing to avoid subsequent dispute : such writing may range from the proper minutes of a partners ' meeting to a separate manual describing a firm 's management process as a guide , in the largest firms , to enable every partner and every employee to identify the person responsible for any particular aspect of the firm 's administration .
2 I thought of Compton Mackenzie 's brave words at a Nomads ' Club dinner where I was his guest about the mystical experience of people loving their countrymen through loving their country and , by re-creating themselves , re-creating their nation .
3 A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital .
4 There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks …
5 Er , by all means , go , go through all this stuff in a weeks ' time and throw out th , those things you do n't need .
6 They used to be just another attraction at a children 's zoo — but then they learned to trampoline .
7 Any party to proceedings may appeal to the High Court against a magistrates ' court decision to make or refuse to make an order under the Children Act ( s94(1) ) .
8 A British delegate to a teachers ' convention on sex education held in the United States , posed the question , ‘ Why have sex education in our schools ?
9 It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere .
10 But with police assistance , out went the occupiers , off to set up the one and only edition of the International Free Press from a distributors ' warehouse off Old Street .
11 ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine .
12 One of the earliest to be shown was the 1950 film Caged , screened on ITV in 1968 : this featured Hope Emerson as a mannish , sadistic matron in a women 's prison .
13 West Ham 's assistant manager Harry Redknapp has been another victim of a fans ' fit-up .
14 In the ordinary course of a solicitors ' practice the partners will meet at regular intervals to discuss the affairs of the firm ( Clause 17.03 ) .
15 Any such movement usually occurs in the early part of a buildings 's life but this may not always be the case depending upon the nature of the subsoil upon which the building is founded .
16 If this is so , then the issue should be formulated as one of whether the existence of corporate power is sufficiently objectionable to defeat the prima facie justificatory force of a rights ' claim .
17 In the mid eighties , Jacques Delors swept away years of Labour Europhobia with his seductive prospectus for a workers ' Europe that would outflank national governments — especially the one in Whitehall .
18 A useful example is the erection in a prominent place of a parents ' notice board where details of sales , wants , baby sitters , child minders , community activities , thank you letters , etc are displayed .
19 This is the first visible sign of a shareholders ' revolt against the chairman , Sir Derek Alun-Jones , since the discovery of a £185m fraud which threatens the group 's future .
20 For instance , one may have to identify the real settlor of an employees ' trust or a trading trust .
21 A : So would you if you 'd seen the Devil , snarling and slavering and trying to get in a window of the second floor of a students ' residence .
22 Under the Solicitors Accounts ( Deposit Interest ) Rules 1987 , solicitors have a duty to account to their clients for the interest earned by the placing of such monies in a solicitors ' client account .
23 Alfriston is a very pretty village with a children 's zoo .
24 RIVIERA RAINBOW * , who opened his account with a facile victory in an apprentices ' event on the all-weather track at Lingfield Park last month , does not appear harshly treated in today 's Barbican Handicap ( 2.45 ) at Pontefract .
25 But there 's a big difference in my view between the sort of regular abuse and assaults on staff in a Casualty Department and somebody walking into what should have been a locked ward on a children 's unit in a hospital at two o'clock in the morning .
26 However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors .
27 The pension has a large garden with a children 's play area .
28 In her books this is to be found at its most extreme in Sara Crewe ( 1888 ) — expanded , following the stage version , as The Little Princess ( 1905 ) — a Cinderella story where a bullied little drudge at a girls ' school is restored to riches and esteem and the tyrannical headmistress humiliated .
29 So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute .
30 The two cherry berets kept him up ; then I saw Osvaldo hook his bare foot round a malai 's boot and the two of them went down .
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