Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 There still remains the primary need for all agreements , however limited in scope , which affect the partners to be set down clearly and exhaustively in writing to avoid subsequent dispute : such writing may range from the proper minutes of a partners ' meeting to a separate manual describing a firm 's management process as a guide , in the largest firms , to enable every partner and every employee to identify the person responsible for any particular aspect of the firm 's administration .
2 I thought of Compton Mackenzie 's brave words at a Nomads ' Club dinner where I was his guest about the mystical experience of people loving their countrymen through loving their country and , by re-creating themselves , re-creating their nation .
3 A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital .
4 There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks …
5 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) ) .
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 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 .
8 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 .
9 One of the earliest to be shown was the 1950 film Caged , screened on ITV in 1968 : this featured Hope Emerson as a mannish , sadistic matron in a women 's prison .
10 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 ) .
11 Any such movement usually occurs in the early part of a buildings 's life but this may not always be the case depending upon the nature of the subsoil upon which the building is founded .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Alfriston is a very pretty village with a children 's zoo .
17 But there 's a big difference in my view between the sort of regular abuse and assaults on staff in a Casualty Department and somebody walking into what should have been a locked ward on a children 's unit in a hospital at two o'clock in the morning .
18 However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors .
19 The pension has a large garden with a children 's play area .
20 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 .
21 So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute .
22 The two cherry berets kept him up ; then I saw Osvaldo hook his bare foot round a malai 's boot and the two of them went down .
23 Oldham 's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers ' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding .
24 ( 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 .
25 A new telephone hotline will be established by York City Council to deal with parking problems in the Barbican area under new revised proposals for a residents ' parking scheme .
26 Staff and parents need to be strongly motivated to seek an integrated placement in a children 's day centre or nursery school .
27 Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway .
28 A decentralised model was adopted in the psychiatric department of a children 's hospital in which I worked .
29 TAKE TWO : Dramatised documentary about a boys ' school , to be shown late evening .
30 There is a private beach , beautiful pool with a children 's section and a bar , and a basement bar and disco during high season .
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