Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the year numbers had risen still further to 109 , and an Old Boys ' Association had been formed . |
| 2 | Leaving the harbour high on the Pultney side of the river I passed an old folks ' home looking out over that cold North Sea ; only the dawn in winter can show any warmth . |
| 3 | An accompanying facilitators ' pack contains nine training sessions of roughly 90-minutes . |
| 4 | Ben Tillett , Tom McCarthy and Tom Mann , general secretary , organizer and president respectively of an enlarged Dockers ' Union became the original strike leaders , with John Burns coming later on to the scene . |
| 5 | While failure to establish an effective Teachers ' Council supports the view that teaching can not be regarded as a profession , the establishment of such a Council would be fraught with administrative difficulties . |
| 6 | Work on the 1,300MW power plant was due to begin in March or April , but an international donors ' meeting to set contributions for the $1,300 million project had been postponed in December . |
| 7 | An alternative consultants ' study calculates losses more realistically at between 600m and 1.8 billion ecus ( $740m-2.2 billion ) . |
| 8 | There 's over 120 pages of invaluable advice and inspiration plus an informative Gardeners ' Manual to pull out and collect . |
| 9 | A representative of an independent observers ' group comprising United States and Canadian citizens of Serbian extraction and led by US congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley told a press conference on Dec. 26 that it had found irregularities which would have rendered the elections illegal in the West . |
| 10 | An Important Collectors ' Edition Limited to 25,000 Worldwide |
| 11 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 12 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 13 | Ronald Searle created an infamous girls ' school called what ? |