Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] a [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | But every week , thousands of Multiple Sclerosis sufferers across the country take comfort from spending an hour in a divers ' de-compression chamber . |
2 | Twenty years old as she was , Ella had beaten her big sisters to the altar : Alice Maud , the eldest , waited a further two years before marrying Frank Foote , a clerk in Godsell 's Brewery in Stroud , Gloucestershire , in which town she herself had served an apprenticeship with a ladies ' hairdresser in High Street . |
3 | They met after care assistant Gillian , of Aintree , put an ad in a Forces ' newspaper asking for a pen-pal a year ago . |
4 | As priyayi he obtained an education in a Teachers ' Training School and was sent off to the little island of Bali . |
5 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
6 | Like an illustration in a childrens ' book , you look at it and know there will be magic on the other side . |
7 | The whale 's new home is an enclosure in a children 's health cure resort at Laspi Bay , seven kilometres from the spot Mikhail Gorbachev chose for his presidential dacha in the Crimea , and 20 kilometres from the closed city of Sevastopol . |
8 | You are not an entertainer at a children 's party . |