Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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1 | Labour contender Ashok Kumar has expressed support for a junior doctors ' campaign for shorter working hours . |
2 | James , 19 , working in the hall under a community service order , has had a few months ' work for the council since leaving school . |
3 | In 1923 she set a British ladies ' record for Thames swimming ( 10 hrs. 45 min . ) . |
4 | Meanwhile , the Scottish Ladies ' Golfing Association has named a 12-strong girls ' squad for Sunday 's training match against Helensburgh boys . |
5 | The justiciar , Geoffrey FitzPeter , who had taken the cross , was absolved as he was dying in return for a 2000 marks ' subsidy for the Holy Land . |
6 | The Agency has produced a new leaders ' guide for people organising outings of up to five miles with family or friends . |
7 | Then along came a new managers ' tool for community care planning called The X Factor . |
8 | A 16-year-old girl from Bermondsey , south London , was sent to a young persons ' institution for four months yesterday after being found guilty at Seymour Place juvenile court of causing grievous bodily harm to Francis Ruth Waite , 24 , daughter of Terry Waite , held hostage in Lebanon . |
9 | O ’ Neil was sent to a Young Offenders ' Institute for four years after admitting aggravated burglary and grievous bodily harm . |
10 | He was sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
11 | Paul Dart , 18 , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for four years when he admitted crimes including armed robbery . |
12 | Yesterday , Hill , of Gosport , Hants , who admitted manslaughter , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for 2½ years . |
13 | Let me quote from last Saturday 's Oxford Mail : ’ A teenager whose night of joyriding ended in the death of a lorry driver , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for two years . |
14 | A man who gave the drug LSD to a teenager who later died of an overdose has been sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
15 | Dines is already serving thirty months at a young offenders ' institution for robbery . |
16 | Stevenson , 20 , of Grendon Walk , Park End , Middlesbrough , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for a total of 21 months and banned from driving for two years . |