Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are allowing yourself a daily ration of alcohol , allow these calories in addition to a minimum calories ' worth of food and milk from the F-Plan menus . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | O ’ Neil was sent to a Young Offenders ' Institute for four years after admitting aggravated burglary and grievous bodily harm . |
| 4 | He was sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 5 | Paul Dart , 18 , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for four years when he admitted crimes including armed robbery . |
| 6 | Yesterday , Hill , of Gosport , Hants , who admitted manslaughter , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for 2½ years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After his or her 18th birthday , the young person would be transferred to a young offenders ' institution before moving to an adult prison aged 21 . |
| 11 | Oh , and I belong to a Young Wives ' group , we meet once a fortnight , and I see people from that quite often . |
| 12 | They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m . |
| 13 | PRINCESS Diana has sent a secret cash gift to a battered wives ' refuge that the Mirror has been campaigning to save . |
| 14 | All finalists will be invited to a spectacular winners ' reception in London in September . |
| 15 | So that although reference is made here to a remote children 's colony , its social significance had much wider reverberations , as indeed did the pedagogical theories worked out by Makarenko . |
| 16 | It may Lie that the sale of cigarettes for the same purpose to a working men 's club is a consumer sale . |
| 17 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 18 | For ten weeks in the summer , Vorarlberg also offers the largest programme of children 's event in Europe ; the little town of Bludenz plays host to a huge Children 's Chocolate Festival , and 1000kg of Suchard chocolate is donated for the occasion . |
| 19 | I told my boyfriend who was horrorstruck and took myself off to a lesbian students ' conference . |
| 20 | Hopkins refers to a German seamen 's manifesto of March 1917 , " with its impudent assertion that , apart from a few " isolated mistakes " U-boat warfare had been conducted with respect for human and humane principles " . |
| 21 | Wales took victory in the men 's match by 72-65 , but Scotland ran out overall winners by 148-115 thanks to a comfortable women 's victory . |
| 22 | A party of girls who went on an outing to a local Guides ' camp were surprised to find that the accommodation there was even more primitive than that at Great Engeham . |
| 23 | The families of children with learning difficiulties are getting a raw deal , according to a national children 's charity . |
| 24 | FAMILIES in receipt of state benefit are forced to go hungry because of lack of money according to a National Children 's Home survey just published . |
| 25 | Poverty among young people on income support is now so bad that it 's affecting their physical and mental health , according to a leading children 's charity . |
| 26 | Social workers who want to give serious attention to an elderly couples ' relationship which is causing unhappiness might find it helpful to find a colleague with whom to talk through their feelings about doing marital work , including the discussion of sexuality with an elderly couple . |
| 27 | Like membership cards to an exclusive men 's club , you carry them with pride throughout puberty . |
| 28 | The AR-WACC Women 's Desk was closed this year because it was time to turn it over to an existing women 's group which would take the programme to a new phase in its development as well as broadening the network . |