Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
| 2 | Local issues , including the election of three independent candidates who campaigned against a new road , played a part in the Tories ' loss of Merton , and similar borough-specific factors seemed to be at work in those Labour authorities where the party fared particularly badly . |
| 3 | But on the river , when you 're getting a bite a chuck , especially on the lead and missing most of them , I 'll guarantee the hook size you 're using is too small to find a purchase in the fishes ' mouths . |
| 4 | ‘ Making men ’ , then , was an active process , the emphasis was on ‘ the making ’ , the success of which depended on establishing a relationship that could bring about , through influence and example , a change in the boys ' character . |
| 5 | A change in the banks ' demand for excess reserves |
| 6 | Various solutions to the problem of rising unemployment in Britain have been suggested , some of which depend in part on a change in the workforces ' concept of work . |
| 7 | Souness will conduct tonight 's team talk at the pre-match hotel and then take a seat in the directors ' box as he starts a five-match touchline and dressing room ban . |
| 8 | On the second floor they found a light in the typists ' room and heard the mumble of voices . |
| 9 | ONE of the happiest men in Basildon was Joe Mills , an Essex University student from Harlow , who claimed the 800 metres title by just four-hundredths of a second in the Championships ' best race . |
| 10 | Candlemas , and there was a dance in the sergeants ' mess . |
| 11 | He had screeched to a halt in the residents ' parking bay in an unimpressed Hereford Road , let himself in , banged on his own door and , keeping his distance , ordered Jacqui to go off to the pictures for the afternoon . |
| 12 | John 's mother , Audrey , joined the Club in 1938 and remained a stalwart in the Ladies ' Section up to the time of her death in 1984 , and his father Tom served the Club in many ways and was very highly regarded . |
| 13 | Mountain Crash , off the course since his run at Cottenham , looks set for a return in the Ladies ' Open at Marks Tey tomorrow . |
| 14 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 15 | One of the changes introduced since the consultation period on the SAS 's exposure draft , published in May 1992 , is a distinction between an inherent uncertainty which may be expected to be resolved at a future date and one which exists because evidence does or did exist but is not available to the auditors and so arises because of a limitation in the auditors ' work . |
| 16 | Poseidon was so grateful that he created a constellation in the dolphins ' honour called Delphinus , just west of Pegasus . |
| 17 | This was a very different place to Gloucester , where the Empress 's ladies were virtually servants themselves , but in the flurry of introductions and orders for a place in the ladies ' chamber to be made ready for her Isabel forgot about comparisons . |
| 18 | DENNIS CONNER , the defending America 's Cup skipper , shrugged off a poor start to claim his fifth win in six races against Bill Koch 's America Foundation in San Diego yesterday and needs only one more win to assure no worse than a sail-off for a place in the defenders ' final . |
| 19 | Stars & Stripes ' 44-seconds defeat by America on Saturday , in a good sailing breeze , meant Conner lost his first chance to ensure a place in the defenders ' final . |
| 20 | New Zealand won a place in the challengers ' final against Il Moro di Venezia in 10 days ' time by defeating France 's Ville de Paris in the penultimate semi-final race . |
| 21 | The win gives Cardiff a place in the European Clubs ' Championships next year , with Swansea gaining a place in the Cup-Winners ' Cup . |
| 22 | With parliamentary life now dominated by machines rather than individuals , the back benches are packed with men and women whose only hope is to be offered a job in the Whips ' Office or a junior ministerial brief . |
| 23 | Many years later , in 1861 , at a meeting in the Freemasons ' tavern on 23 February , the proposal was made that a marble bust of Vial should be made for the Royal College . |
| 24 | He earned his living as a mediatore , a middle-man in the farmers ' buying and selling of livestock . |
| 25 | Nicholas Winterton , MP for Macclesfield , a thorn in the Whips ' side , attacked their ‘ thumbscrew ’ tactics . |
| 26 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
| 27 | He was educated at Bridgnorth School , and then apprenticed to a London clothworker , becoming a freeman in the Clothworkers ' Company of London in 1541 or 1542 ( and its master in 1559 ) . |
| 28 | Richard Ryder , the Chief Whip , and his deputy had been asked by John Major to appoint a woman in the Whips ' Office . |
| 29 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 30 | Old Mr. Stavanger and Mr. Andrew both liked a glass in the Masters ' Room , but neither of them ever took a drop too much . |