Example sentences of "[noun sg] to a [noun pl] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Secrets went on to lend its name to a women 's fiction weekly , and for Mills and Boon it laid the basis for a house style . |
3 | There is an appeal against a notice to a magistrates ' court , but there is no express provision for representations prior to service of the notice . |
4 | There is an appeal against a notice to a magistrates ' court , but there is no express provision for representations prior to service of the notice . |
5 | Said to have an equal aversion to women and cats , he left most of his library to a women 's college , St Anne 's . |
6 | A British delegate to a teachers ' convention on sex education held in the United States , posed the question , ‘ Why have sex education in our schools ? |
7 | Before taking a decision on whether to take a case to a Children 's Hearing , the Reporter has to consider the reports from all the appropriate agencies . |
8 | A packed Underhill clubhouse heard George D Maxwell , no relation to the late tycoon Robert , promise , ‘ to give the shirt off my back , ’ during an impassioned plea to a supporters ' EGM . |
9 | If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining . |
10 | After the incident , the infant had been taken into care but a sheriff held she had not been the victim of an offence and dismissed a referral to a children 's hearing . |
11 | Her parents had not accepted the grounds of referral to a children 's hearing , that L had been the victim of an offence , and the case had gone before Sheriff Sir Stephen Young at Greenock Sheriff Court . |
12 | The next thing they knew they were on their way to a Children 's Home run by nuns about twenty miles away : " It was nice and clean , I had a bath and went to bed . |
13 | A 12-YEAR-OLD boy who injured a finger in a heavy door when he and a classmate made a late-night visit to a girls ' dormitory during an educational outing , is suing Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council for £5,250 . |