Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He resigned after a fans ' demonstration at a reserve team game . |
| 2 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) The primary function of a students ' association of a college established under this paragraph shall be to represent the interests of students of such college . |
| 4 | While holding this post he arranged the building of a scholars ' gallery at the Church , from which later Masters derived a small income . |
| 5 | He was RTS television reporter of the year in 1977 , when the award was first introduced , for his coverage of a mercenaries ' trial in Angola . |
| 6 | Attention has quite justifiably been drawn to the fact that we have not had anything in the way of a Teachers ' Forum for some years . |
| 7 | Another possibility worth considering is taking articles with the clerk of a magistrates ' court with a view to this type of appointment . |
| 8 | Erm I do n't know what this is serious point actually if if you fancy yourself as one of these so called mums and I think it is a little patronizing the er title of a mums ' army of teachers , if you think that maybe you could do that and you 'd be interested in doing that and you think it 's quite a good idea I 'd be interested in hearing from you , all right ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The editor of Argumenty i Fakty , Vladislav Starkov , under strong criticism following the publication in early October 1989 of a readers ' poll of the most unpopular Congress deputies [ see p. 36980 ] , continued to defend himself vigorously in the media and his staff threatened to resign if he was dismissed ; in late October , however , the paper appeared to be trying to appease the party central committee by publishing both an interview with Yegor Ligachev , a leading conservative CPSU politburo member and central committee Secretary responsible for Agriculture , and also an opinion poll favourable to Gorbachev . |
| 14 | John , it sounds like a mugs ' game to me . |
| 15 | It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies . |
| 16 | Oldham 's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers ' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding . |
| 17 | Suspected Sikh terrorists killed 19 Hindu students visiting the town of Patiala for a students ' festival on Nov. 10 as they slept in dormitories . |
| 18 | He was educated at the local church school then , at the age of twelve , went to work for a builders ' business in Lancaster . |
| 19 | Scott for a farmers ' forum at Stockton Cricket Club on Thursday . |
| 20 | Phil Bennett 's overall for a Lions ' scorer with his 18 points and equalled another record . |
| 21 | A research and advice centre on plant diseases on pests , it has been described as a doctors ' surgery for farmers . |
| 22 | 2912 built in 1942 was built as a Directors ' Saloon for the LMSR and seconded for Royal Train duty after nationalisation . |
| 23 | demonstrating DC as a searchers ' tool for subject access , browsing and display , and |
| 24 | For Norwich , without a goal since December 5 , this third successive blank gave more ammunition to those who haughtily dismiss their title challenge as a peasants ' revolt from the shires . |
| 25 | This followed an argument seven months previously about a stewards ' inquiry into a televised race . |
| 26 | Faced with a shareholders ' meeting in Hanover on March 13th , Mr Urban and his managers are on the defensive . |
| 27 | Pop and I had never had much to do with a soldiers ' club-except for that brief time in Maymyo , which was more of a hospital than a club , but now we had to feed and house soldiers on leave , poor men who were tired and bored and away from their families . |
| 28 | Twenty years old as she was , Ella had beaten her big sisters to the altar : Alice Maud , the eldest , waited a further two years before marrying Frank Foote , a clerk in Godsell 's Brewery in Stroud , Gloucestershire , in which town she herself had served an apprenticeship with a ladies ' hairdresser in High Street . |
| 29 | After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement . |
| 30 | In a widely publicised incident a few months later Ben , diagnosed as schizophrenic , climbed into a lions ' cage at London Zoo . |