Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any party to proceedings may appeal to the High Court against a magistrates ' court decision to make or refuse to make an order under the Children Act ( s94(1) ) . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 4 | But with police assistance , out went the occupiers , off to set up the one and only edition of the International Free Press from a distributors ' warehouse off Old Street . |
| 5 | In the ordinary course of a solicitors ' practice the partners will meet at regular intervals to discuss the affairs of the firm ( Clause 17.03 ) . |
| 6 | If this is so , then the issue should be formulated as one of whether the existence of corporate power is sufficiently objectionable to defeat the prima facie justificatory force of a rights ' claim . |
| 7 | In the mid eighties , Jacques Delors swept away years of Labour Europhobia with his seductive prospectus for a workers ' Europe that would outflank national governments — especially the one in Whitehall . |
| 8 | A useful example is the erection in a prominent place of a parents ' notice board where details of sales , wants , baby sitters , child minders , community activities , thank you letters , etc are displayed . |
| 9 | This is the first visible sign of a shareholders ' revolt against the chairman , Sir Derek Alun-Jones , since the discovery of a £185m fraud which threatens the group 's future . |
| 10 | In her books this is to be found at its most extreme in Sara Crewe ( 1888 ) — expanded , following the stage version , as The Little Princess ( 1905 ) — a Cinderella story where a bullied little drudge at a girls ' school is restored to riches and esteem and the tyrannical headmistress humiliated . |
| 11 | Oldham 's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers ' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) The primary function of a students ' association of a college established under this paragraph shall be to represent the interests of students of such college . |
| 13 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 14 | Obvious points , perhaps , but important , since an adaptation to a new habitat can have a profound effect on a species ' fortunes . |
| 15 | TAKE TWO : Dramatised documentary about a boys ' school , to be shown late evening . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Our third decision dates from 1960 and concerns an industrial dispute at a printers ' works in London . |
| 18 | Windsor played the long-time head of a boys ' secondary school swallowed up by a grammar school to form a comprehensive . |
| 19 | ( Now thanks to Nancy Barclay 's resourcefulness and the generosity of her employers we are storing books for Christian Aid in a lawyers ' office until Mrs. Paton 's cellar is ready again ) . |
| 20 | She also did voluntary work in a girls ' club , which brought her into contact with the local women 's trade union council , the Women 's Co-operative Guild , and ultimately the Labour party . |
| 21 | Farr-Jones said the whole notion of a players ' company was for all the players to be involved , not to feather the nests of a select upper echelon . |
| 22 | The police were required to bring the detained person before a magistrates ' court ‘ as soon as practicable ’ after arrest . |
| 23 | The maximum fine in a Magistrates ' Court for breaches of ss 2 to 6 of the Act and of other sections relating to breaches of improvement notices , and prohibition notices or court remedy orders , has risen to £20,000 and all other breaches of the Act or subordinate Regulations and other relevant legislation now incur a maximum fine of £5,000 ( previously £2,000 ) . |
| 24 | The committal — this is a preliminary hearing in a magistrates ' court and little information usually emerges at this stage . |
| 25 | I am writing as the senior partner in a solicitors ' practice , employing over 20 people , in reply to some of the comments spreading gloom and despondency about the Labour Party 's proposals in the areas of taxation , economic growth and training . |
| 26 | 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 . |