Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun pl] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was called in and told the show was too expensive and was stretching facilities far too greatly for a children 's programme . ’ |
| 2 | Somewhat like a dolls ' house the building was formerly the Congregational Mission Hall opened in 1872 . |
| 3 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 4 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 5 | It was exactly like a children 's tea party , complete with squabbling and displays of temperament . |
| 6 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 7 | Variety thought that the ‘ fact that so many of these gags depend on ill-concealed misogyny soon stifles the laughs that flowed more easily in a pre-women 's liberation era . |
| 8 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 9 | It 's more like a childrens ' afternoon TV show than a science lesson , but there 's a message in every device . |
| 10 | It blossomed forth at a Managers ' meeting when ‘ somebody from Marketing ’ gave an in-depth talk on selling skills and creating opportunities to sell , using Branch data . |
| 11 | For example , there is no need to reset hard copy since the typesetting department can download text straight from a clients ' word-processing or desk top publishing discs . |
| 12 | One woman writing anonymously to a women 's magazine told of her distress at a particularly dehumanizing gynaecological examination . |
| 13 | You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high . |
| 14 | Built around the turn of the century , it had been designed originally as a soldiers ' barracks . |
| 15 | The real Cardiff Bay barrage story is rather different from the one on the poster ( enough so far for a residents ' association , the Cardiff Flood Action Committee , to have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority , and for the RSPB to be considering following suit ) . |
| 16 | It 's the only day , really in a women 's life where everybody at her and she 's made to feel like the most special person on this earth , so I 'd highly recommend it . |
| 17 | I recently had to speak firmly , harshly to a women 's organisation here . |
| 18 | ( And never do this in court , not even in a magistrates ' court ! ) |
| 19 | There is no text that can be read , such as there is even in a children 's comic . |
| 20 | Earl Grey never goes down well in a boys ' school — there 's that touch of Milady 's Boudoir about it . |
| 21 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 22 | The vehicle and its two occupants now stood silently in a children 's playground . |
| 23 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 24 | This followed an argument seven months previously about a stewards ' inquiry into a televised race . |
| 25 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 26 | This means that instead of a Lions ' debut being guaranteed for the 10-times-capped Garryowen player against Canterbury in Christchurch on Wednesday week , he might miss the match . |