Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour contender Ashok Kumar has expressed support for a junior doctors ' campaign for shorter working hours . |
| 2 | I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service . |
| 3 | During the same era of the early sixties , TV tough guy , Lewis Collins was earning a living as a junior ladies ' hairdresser at Andre Bernard 's salon in Liverpool . |
| 4 | His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission . |
| 5 | Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures . |
| 6 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 7 | The next election will be lost or won not as the result of a few weeks ' electioneering , of media events , of soundbites , but as a result of four years of radical but sensible campaigning in our towns and villages . |
| 8 | Negotiations between the government and the opposition , which disputed the November presidential election results [ see p. 39180 ] , failed after the government refused to concede the principal demand — the completion of a new voters ' register . |
| 9 | How can we allow the commercial hunting of whales when they could be starved of food because of ozone depletion in a few years ' time ? " |
| 10 | This chapter contains an overview of the present state of play , and considers the basic requirements for practice in a conventional solicitors ' partnership . |
| 11 | forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 ) |
| 12 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 13 | Eight years later , to be precise , she was greeted by screaming crowds and the flash of a hundred photographers ' cameras . |
| 14 | For a girl used to the noise and chaos of an all girls ' apartment , Buckingham Palace felt like anywhere but home . |
| 15 | Smith was a leading figure in the local and national movement to promote technical education , beginning with the provision of a new Mechanics ' Institute in Keighley in 1870 — he was secretary of the building committee — and continuing , after a formative visit to France , Germany , and Switzerland in 1872 , with the setting up of an associated ‘ trade school ’ , providing technical and art classes . |
| 16 | The justiciar , Geoffrey FitzPeter , who had taken the cross , was absolved as he was dying in return for a 2000 marks ' subsidy for the Holy Land . |
| 17 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
| 18 | The motion called on the chamber to reconsider the issue in a few years ' time . |
| 19 | However , the difficulties involved in providing a safe and reassuring environment for staff working with this group of people are one reason why so many professional staff still clamour to retain the old asylums ; in such asylums staff know they can summon help at a few minutes ' notice from a neighbouring ward and from resident medical staff . |
| 20 | WITHIN a few hours of arriving in Cape Town yesterday morning , the Scotland squad had a training and nets session at a local boys ' school where the facilities were superb . |
| 21 | Further , more local , threats are posed for the sake of a few years ' supply of raw materials . |
| 22 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 23 | Thus resulted in a correspondence with Mr D.S.V. Fosten , who gave his opinion that is was a rare specimen of an other ranks ' jacket of the period , and that the wings and blue grenade patches were unlike any he had ever seen . |
| 24 | The meeting also approved the establishment of a separate Ladies ' Committee . |
| 25 | Not only did the County Council begin to prepare a major case against Hinkley C , but every detail , from the new roads to the siting of a proposed workers ' hostel , was back in the melting pot . |
| 26 | And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home . |
| 27 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 28 | Wendy , 40 , is a secretary/receptionist in a local doctors ' surgery . |
| 29 | Thieves made off with £50 in cash from an old folks ' home in Windsor Court , off Newton Lane , Darlington . |
| 30 | Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time . |