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 | 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 . |
| 7 | This chapter contains an overview of the present state of play , and considers the basic requirements for practice in a conventional solicitors ' partnership . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The meeting also approved the establishment of a separate Ladies ' Committee . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home . |
| 15 | Wendy , 40 , is a secretary/receptionist in a local doctors ' surgery . |
| 16 | Thieves made off with £50 in cash from an old folks ' home in Windsor Court , off Newton Lane , Darlington . |
| 17 | Social workers who want to give serious attention to an elderly couples ' relationship which is causing unhappiness might find it helpful to find a colleague with whom to talk through their feelings about doing marital work , including the discussion of sexuality with an elderly couple . |
| 18 | PRINCESS Diana has sent a secret cash gift to a battered wives ' refuge that the Mirror has been campaigning to save . |
| 19 | Their chairman would have the support of both the Secretary of State and the LEA in discouraging , and ultimately forbidding , discussion of the performance of an individual pupil or teacher at an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 20 | When I wanted publicity for a young persons ' trip to London , arranged to allow them to talk to MPs of all parties , your paper did not publish the Press release . |
| 21 | They were willing to envisage greater cooperation with liberal representatives of the bourgeoisie and tended to place more emphasis on taking advantage of the new opportunities of the Duma era for the development of a legal workers ' movement . |
| 22 | And this discount is offered in conjunction with a first-time buyers ' discount if the borrower qualifies for both . |
| 23 | Jan Murray , the England left wing , avoids becoming the filling in a Finnish defenders ' sandwich during the UEFA Women 's Championship Group Three game at Brentford yesterday . |
| 24 | A party of girls who went on an outing to a local Guides ' camp were surprised to find that the accommodation there was even more primitive than that at Great Engeham . |
| 25 | There 's over 120 pages of invaluable advice and inspiration plus an informative Gardeners ' Manual to pull out and collect . |
| 26 | Today we can talk about sex without modesty or fear , but bring up the subject of death and you will be treated with the same social horror as if you had brought up the subject of masturbation at a Victorian ladies ' tea party . |
| 27 | A key ingredient in his rise from a minor counties ' also-ran to England strike bowler was a brief coaching session with the Dennis Lillee . |
| 28 | In the past year she has won classes at Aldershot and Farnborough , Basingstoke and Woking Festivals and has taken part in a week-long performers ' workshop at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 29 | She was a pianist and he met her while they were both taking part in a young performers ' competition . |
| 30 | The four opposition parties announced on Nov. 13 that they were withdrawing from the parliamentary elections set for Dec. 8 in protest at the failure of their demand for a new voters ' register . |