Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central 's fraud officers were called in by Falkirk after an independent auditors ' report on the club 's finances . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ben Tillett , Tom McCarthy and Tom Mann , general secretary , organizer and president respectively of an enlarged Dockers ' Union became the original strike leaders , with John Burns coming later on to the scene . |
| 5 | Alison Fiske plays the housekeeper Mrs Pearce like the brisk and plummy matron of an exclusive girls ' boarding school , while Robin Bailey offers continuous delight as a ripe and fruity Col Pickering , finding humour in even the most unpromising lines . |
| 6 | Phrases such as striving for the setting up of a ‘ Workers ’ republic' and the establishment of ‘ public ownership ’ were excised , as they were seen by the members of an affiliated teachers ' union , and ultimately by the bishops , to counter church doctrine ( Whyte 1980 : 82–4 ; Keogh 1982 : 7 , 77 n.5 ) . |
| 7 | His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission . |
| 8 | A second independent miners ' congress , held in Donetsk ( Ukraine ) , ended with a declaration on Oct. 26 that it had been the founding congress of an independent miners ' trade union . |
| 9 | A representative of an independent observers ' group comprising United States and Canadian citizens of Serbian extraction and led by US congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley told a press conference on Dec. 26 that it had found irregularities which would have rendered the elections illegal in the West . |
| 10 | No constitutional action is necessary when the government is returned with an absolute Commons ' majority , as happened in l906 , l918 , 1922 , 193l , 1935 , l950 , 1955 , 1959 , 1966 , October 1974 , 1983 and 1987 . |
| 11 | The Opposition was returned with an absolute Commons ' majority in 1924 , 1945 , 1951 , 1964 , 1970 and 1979 . |
| 12 | The accounts were easily readable with an interesting trustees ' report . |
| 13 | Precedents have been set by the Trans-Pennine Movement ( with an all-party MPs ' group in support ) , by the powerful counter-action in the North East when Scottish devolution was in the air ; the developmental spirit of the regional economic planning councils abolished by government in 1979 is abroad again , though unconnected , in all three regions . |
| 14 | And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home . |
| 15 | Trade creditors , including Western Digital Corp , Seagate Technology Inc , Microsoft Corp , IBM Corp , Conner Peripherals Inc and Quantum Corp , have been operating as an unofficial creditors ' committee and are expected to become members of the Official Committee . |
| 16 | Students with no previous knowledge of German are required to enrol for an intensive beginners ' language course in their first year . |
| 17 | If anyone is interested in playing for an Old Peoples ' Class on Friday mornings , starting in September at Dulwich , please contact . |
| 18 | Once , in an American girls ' school , I watched a prize-giving ceremony in which candles were lit one by one , accompanied by spoken declarations such as : ‘ I light the lamp of scholarship ’ . |
| 19 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 20 | Western Legend , off the course all last season with leg problems after gaining four victories early in his chasing career , returned to top form last month when scoring unchallenged in an amateur riders ' chase at Wincanton . |
| 21 | After making her name as a prisoner of war in Tenko ( in which she appeared with Renee Asherson ) , Stephanie has been busy with a second series of the TV comedy Waiting for God about a group of crumblies living in an old folks ' home . |
| 22 | Er I think she does a bit of part time I 'm not really sure what she does she comes and goes , she probably works in an old folks ' home or something , she has a uniform . |
| 23 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 24 | As one Afro-caribbean elder said in an old peoples ' club : ‘ It is not only the climate that is cold in England ’ ( Grant , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | It looks like scratchings from an old birds ' nest . |
| 26 | Thieves made off with £50 in cash from an old folks ' home in Windsor Court , off Newton Lane , Darlington . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There 's over 120 pages of invaluable advice and inspiration plus an informative Gardeners ' Manual to pull out and collect . |
| 29 | 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 . |