Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 The teacher in Example 3 provided a box of dolls ' clothes of different sizes and designs .
2 THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month .
3 The aim was to monitor only those outpatient referrals which incurred a charge against fundholders ' budgets and the corresponding referrals in the control practices .
4 On April 29 , JS sponsored a lunch at Stationers ' Hall in the City of London held to honour the person identified by the horticultural industry as having made the biggest contribution to commercial horticulture in 1992 .
5 The Danish parliament on June 17 passed a law on patients ' records , which from January , 1994 , will give every citizen the right to access their medical records .
6 Background music made a change from bookies ' cries .
7 He went to his desk and produced a sheaf of agents ' reports .
8 It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside .
9 He announced an increase in Members ' salaries from £400 to £600 .
10 Mr. McAvoy : If any bid included a reduction of employees ' pension rights , may we have a firm commitment from the Minister that the Government would not give that bid the go-ahead ?
11 They specialised in questions which , to quote Bowley , " required an answer of 'yes ' or 'no' or a simple number or something equally definite and precise " .
12 OUR recent series commemorating the life of comedy king Frankie Howerd brought a flood of readers ' letters .
13 He did a couple of hours ' work , and he got two free tickets to Canada .
14 On the other hand , if it was quite clear and unambiguous then a written form was preferred Okay , now a study by Daft et al , Daft as in y'know one marble short of a whatever yeah or okay er Daft et al nineteen eighty-seven had a look at managers ' use of er of these two different media and found that in general most managers were media sensitive .
15 The reforms entailed an increase in employees ' contributions from 3 to 11 per cent of gross wage ; the raising of the pensionable age from 63 to 65 for men and from 58 to 60 for women ; the abolition of special allowances for particular categories of employees ; and the merger of pension funds .
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