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

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1 Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 .
2 Student life is especially active with a very well-organised Students ' Association , and modem sports and other facilities .
3 Less self-satisfied social reformers , while not denying improvement — in the case of the elite of workers whose relative scarcity of qualifications put them into a fairly continuous sellers ' market , the substantial improvement — gave a less rose-tinted picture :
4 Lawnswood Junior , partnered by experienced amateur Teresa Spearing , is the cautious choice in a particularly tricky-looking ladies ' race .
5 At a too typical parents ' evening Mr and Mrs Bloggs are directed to a folded card bearing Fred 's name resting on a slightly dog-eared pile of exercise books .
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