Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] ' [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies . |
| 3 | Oldham 's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers ' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding . |
| 4 | He was educated at the local church school then , at the age of twelve , went to work for a builders ' business in Lancaster . |
| 5 | Faced with a shareholders ' meeting in Hanover on March 13th , Mr Urban and his managers are on the defensive . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement . |
| 8 | However , resentment from those who had learned the trade through the proper apprenticeship forced him into a debtors ' prison in 1738 . |
| 9 | Burglars caused £2,000 worth of damage when they broke into a greengrocers ' shop in Castlegate , Thirsk , and stole £45 in cash . |
| 10 | Burglars caused £2,000 worth of damage when they broke into a greengrocers ' shop in Castlegate , Thirsk , and stole £45 in cash . |
| 11 | Facts : the appellant pleaded guilty before a magistrates ' court in April , 1990 to an offence of receiving and was ordered to perform 180 hours community service . |
| 12 | Of course , token gestures often suffice to land unknown quantities from obscurity — Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino joined Gillingham from a boys ' club in Crockenhill for the cost of a new set of playing strips . |
| 13 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 14 | He graduated from the University with an LLB in 1950 and is a partner in a solicitors ' practice in Nottingham . |
| 15 | 5.2 ‘ Corner ’ lodgers in a workers ' flat in St Petersburg in the 1890s . |
| 16 | Miniature Japanese raced miniature motor cycles round a kiddies ' course in Yokohama . |
| 17 | Last week I gave a talk to a parents ' committee in one of our schools on how to make a constitution — I felt I was contributing to the growth of grass roots democracy in South Africa . |
| 18 | , SCDI 's Tayside Area Chairman ( left ) , welcomed MP , Scottish Office Minister for Industry and Local Government , to a Members ' Dinner in September . |
| 19 | Namibia requested some US$270,000,000 for each year of its 1990-92 reconstruction programme at a donors ' conference in New York on June 21-22 . |
| 20 | At a donors ' meeting in Paris on July 27-28 , 1989 , US$200,000,000 of the estimated US$600,000,000 needed for the economic reform programme was raised . |
| 21 | A joint Mozambique government and World Bank report , released at a donors ' meeting in Paris on Dec. 10 , warned that half of the country 's 16,000,000 people faced starvation , largely as a result of the civil war . |
| 22 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 23 | Civic Forum , the movement which had emerged to lead the November 1989 revolution in the Czech lands and which with its Slovak sister organization Public Against Violence had won the June 1990 general election [ see p. 37542-43 ] , elected the Federal Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus as its first chair at a delegates ' meeting in Prague on Oct. 13 . |
| 24 | New Forum , which had first emerged in September 1989 [ see p. 36895 ] , decided at a delegates ' conference in Leipzig on Jan. 6 not to form a political party but to remain a citizens ' movement which was " open to citizens of different ideological and party opinions " . |
| 25 | At a managers ' jamboree in Beijing , he dressed up as Confucius . |
| 26 | The key element in the suspension of the strike was an order signed by Yeltsin at a miners ' rally in Novokuznetsk on May 1 to transfer all coal mines in the Russian Federation from central Soviet to Russian Federation government control . |
| 27 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 28 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 29 | Men 's pores release five times as many natural chemicals , called pheromones , at this time of year , according to Dr Kelly , who will air his theory at a chemists ' conference in Guildford , Surrey , today . |
| 30 | At a drivers ' meeting in the spring of 1976 , Niki had proposed the Ring be boycotted . |