Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three days ' disappearance following the sheep-eating incident , the eagle was seen again for certain on a telegraph pole outside the village of Lutterworth near Leicester by a passing motorist , Mrs Gillian Cook . |
| 2 | Popular at home ( the Duke of Edinburgh recently bought one ) , for foreigners they offer cheap chic : a cab dismissed after ten years ' service sells for around £1,500 ( $1,250 ) . |
| 3 | By contrast babies born after 40 weeks ' gestation had raised death rates from non-cardiovascular causes , reflected in higher rates from all causes combined . |
| 4 | The project comes after four years ' work involving Cancer Research Campaign scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research , in Sutton , Surrey , and a team at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund genetics laboratory in Leeds . |
| 5 | An employee who is dismissed after two years ' service has three months in which to complain to an industrial tribunal . |
| 6 | RAY COVENTRY has retired from P&O Cruises ( UK ) after 14 years ' service having most recently held the position of Equipment and Stores Supervisor in the Hotel Services Department . |
| 7 | A landlord can distrain against goods and effects compromised in the bankrupt 's estate but only for six months ' rent accrued due before the commencement of the bankruptcy ( s347(1) ) . |
| 8 | She suggests that this is a hard-line criterion against natural parents which does not take account of social workers ' failure to encourage regular contact between natural parents and children in care . |
| 9 | Since Bains an increasing amount of chief officers ' time has been devoted to liaison with other departmental heads to formulate corporate strategies . |
| 10 | Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine has taken no action against 56 of the 79 English waste disposal authorities which have failed to fulfil their legal obligation of 10 years ' standing to draw up plans for waste disposal . |
| 11 | In undefended divorce cases a higher initial time limit of three hours ' work applies . |
| 12 | As that course had not been taken , the sentence of three years ' detention took effect , by reason of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , 5.1B(S) as a sentence of 12 months ' detention , and the excess of the sentence over 12 months ' was remitted . |
| 13 | The winner of the last edition of Environmental Issues ' competition to spot where they all are now was Clare Stevens . |
| 14 | A friend of many years ' standing has said that , ‘ Ifor would have loved to have stayed on at school . |
| 15 | Approved social workers under the Act would require specialist training and an appraisal of their competence , and the central council for education and training in Social Work ( CCETSW ) insists upon a minimum of sixty days ' training culminating in formal examinations . |
| 16 | He 's been able to start up again , but the painful end of 11 years ' work does n't fade . |
| 17 | What can the United Kingdom do to help , and in what context does President Yeltsin 's pronouncement about some form of United Nations ' supervision offer good news for the future ? |
| 18 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT NORTH WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL PENFOLD STREET W2 ON SATURDAY 18th JUNE 1988 |
| 19 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT NORTH WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL PENFOLD STREET W2 ON SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER ‘ 88 |
| 20 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT QUINTIN SCHOOL ON SATURDAY 10th JANUARY 1981 |
| 21 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT NORTH WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL PENFOLD STREET W2 ON SATURDAY 10 MARCH 1990 |
| 22 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT SATURDAY 7TH JANUARY ‘ 89 |
| 23 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT ON SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 1989 |
| 24 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT ON SATURDAY 20TH APRIL 1991 . |
| 25 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT ON SATURDAY 11 MARCH 1989 |
| 26 | On Wednesday , January 23 , activists from the London School of Economics ( LSE ) Abortion Rights Group held a picket outside the Irish Embassy in support of Irish students ' campaign to legalise the provision of abortion information in Ireland . |
| 27 | The project consists of several months ' fieldwork carried out during the summer term and long vacation of the Junior Honours year . |
| 28 | The offender was on licence at the time of the offence from a sentence of 15 years ' imprisonment imposed in 1981 . |
| 29 | The real weakness of any players ' union lay in the difficulty of maintaining solidarity amongst its members . |
| 30 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |