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

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1 It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 .
2 ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life .
3 Well I , well I 'm on a weeks ' holiday are n't I , at Easter ?
4 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
5 Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school .
6 She remembers being in a kids ' dance troupe called the Wee Winkies when she was a seven-year-old in Chicago , she enjoyed a run of successes on the TV talent show Star Search , and she was eventually spotted by Prince dancing in a Los Angeles nightclub .
7 Like being at a gravediggers ' convention , I thought , when one had marked out one 's first plot .
8 She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed .
9 Their first match is against a men 's team from Accounts .
10 of the ward on the right erm , and er , it 's like a mens ' ward .
11 You know you know Sonia' been kicked out of her house and she 's in a children 's home somewhere or something .
12 Most of the trouble is at a children 's play area known as the Fort .
13 I had to announce a big disaster during the war , the fall of France or something , and it was during a children 's matinee .
14 It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies .
15 It was like a crooks ' convention
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