Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spurs Club in London raised the magnificent sum of £760 in three years for a variety of armed services ' benevolent funds . |
| 2 | In 1975 the Council agreed to the award of the degree of Master of Education , on condition that it was not taken as a precedent for a variety of other masters ' degree titles . |
| 3 | But insurance could end up being a mainstay of American banks ' non-interest income . |
| 4 | This , no doubt , was the reason that Nenna 's thoughts , whenever she was alone , took the form of a kind of perpetual magistrates ' hearing , in which her own version of her marriage was shown as ridiculously simple and demonstrably right , and then , almost exactly at the same time , as incontrovertibly wrong . |
| 5 | Investment in upgrading the production process is driving a reorganisation of United Distillers ' operations in Scotland , with more than 100 million capital investment planned over the next three years . |
| 6 | During the Depression years mothers often called at the better-off houses in the neighbourhood to try and find places for their daughters and one woman recalled employing a succession of unemployed miners ' daughters to whom she paid 5/ a week . |
| 7 | But the recession and the Treasury 's growing public expenditure bill have prompted a review of certain departments ' spending : social security , health , the home office and education — all those which have an impact on the operations of SSDs . |
| 8 | Dendrov branched every which way , a forest of tangled stags ' horns . |
| 9 | If we put these fragments of information together , we can construct a picture of black adolescents ' perceptions of Creole use and attitudes which is similar to that given by Sutcliffe . |
| 10 | She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage . |
| 11 | A by-product of Labour leaders ' responsiveness to the new thinking may be that the party relieves itself of some commitments which have been electoral liabilities in the past . |
| 12 | I was discussing business contracts with my husband and waiting for a call from my own children who would rock with laughter if I prescribed a dose of warm camels ' milk and clove for a poor stomach and headache . |
| 13 | This is followed by some general remarks about the history and philosophy of imprisonment in India , and a summary of previous writers ' conclusions about gaol conditions . |
| 14 | As a method of developing pupils ' skills in speaking and listening , drama is as important within secondary school learning as it is at primary level . |
| 15 | In Lower Bond Street is a row of thatched framework-knitters ' cottages , of timber-framed construction with brick infilling . |
| 16 | A CD of Dire Straits ' greatest hits she 'd found in the apartment matched her mood as she looked out into the dark night , lit only by the dramatic outside lighting of the gardens . |
| 17 | The SEGA crew will also organise a host of great kids ' competitions and Pontin 's own children 's hero , Captain Croc , will be on hand . |
| 18 | His poetic voice is unmistakable , and yet it was composed from a number of other poets ' voices which he adapted or borrowed . |
| 19 | She left her girls ' boarding school ( St Mary 's , Calne ) without any notion of saving the planet , and did a number of well-bred girls ' things in London and Paris — Harrods ' toy department , a cordon bleu course , door-to-door sales , modelling — before starting what she regards as her first proper job , in an advertising agency 's information department . |
| 20 | Coupon techniques may be used by one producer or supplier as a promotion for its goods or services , or the plan may include a number of different producers ' products under one name . |
| 21 | In a list of favourite boys ' books compiled by Edward Salmon in 1888 , Kingston came second to Dickens , and Salmon observed , ‘ Mr Kingston is Captain Marryat transformed from a novelist into a juvenile romanticist ’ . |
| 22 | It proceeds not by attempting to describe the essence of units but by arranging the sound units according to a system of binary oppositions ' . |
| 23 | This tension surfaced in particularly acute form on the morrow of the first proletarian revolution as the Bolsheviks attempted to construct a system of coordinated workers ' control over industry in face of the proliferation of relatively independent factory committees . |
| 24 | In 1947 the NUT conducted a survey of local authorities ' selection procedures . |