Example sentences of "[noun sg] be a [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And football 's a gentlemen 's game played hoo hooligans . |
| 2 | The entire village is a children 's paradise , a stimulating world just waiting to be discovered . |
| 3 | Another major objective of the plan is a volunteers ' block , providing messing and hostel accommodation . |
| 4 | A family service guaranteed to pack the school hall is a mothers ' day assembly particularly if mums , including teachers , receive a gift of a small posy of spring flowers . |
| 5 | Yet the regulatory regime he put in place is a meddlers ' charter . |
| 6 | The only thing on the ground floor that was similar to a dressing-room was a gents ' loo , so we set about disguising its true purpose by dressing it up for the evening . |
| 7 | If you want your holidays , you have them in the summer time and May Day is a workers ' day . |
| 8 | The Royal Duke was a fishermen 's pub with an afternoon trade from men who had brought their catch in during the small hours of the morning . |
| 9 | His grandfather worked the coalface and his father was a Miners ' Union official . |
| 10 | By now , Hoover was a politicians ' nightmare — perceived by some as the perfect cop , but known at close range for his rants , his sexual obsessions , his card index and his file cabinets which by now contained all the sins , real and imagined , of the political world . |
| 11 | A complete pride might contain two males , seven females , and some cubs , but the hunt is a females ' business . |
| 12 | THERE are always horses at Edelson House in Gainford if only because a part of the garden is a horses ' graveyard . |
| 13 | Christmas Day in Bart 's Kenton ward was a children 's delight as staff pulled out all the stops to ensure patients had a magical day . |
| 14 | In the park is a children 's playground with a carousel . |
| 15 | Caboc is a cows ' milk cheese made in small cylindrical shapes and rolled in toasted oatmeal to give it a more distinctive flavour . |
| 16 | They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another . |
| 17 | Conservatives are foolishly lulling themselves with their own rhetoric if they think that the reformed Labour Party is an image-makers ' fantasy . |