Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 24 , a quadrilateral Foreign Ministers ' meeting during the Lisbon summit [ see p. 38923 ] issued a statement on measures to calm the situation . |
| 2 | Thus the immediate practical relief offered was two days of day care at a progressive old peoples ' home , where Stanley was encouraged in his piano playing to make a lively contribution . |
| 3 | The government , however , attempted to avert a threatened national teachers ' strike , by claiming that the emergency tax plan had raised enough revenues to increase their wages . |
| 4 | Their decision follows crowd trouble by supporters in a previous European Champions ' League match at Marseille last December , for which their punishment by UEFA was to play their home game against Rangers on 3 March in an empty stadium . |
| 5 | The designers designed a terrific pirate galleon and a thrilling Lost Boys ' hideout . |
| 6 | Yelverton is a long lost lepers ' bell , a simple reminder that all is n't well beyond Game Boy . |
| 7 | Even in the case of the large church with a regular new members ' class , this may need to be supplemented by a sponsorship scheme in which the converts are matched with church members of the same sex and similar age and background , to help them find their feet and be introduced to the family . |
| 8 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 9 | The idea of a duty solicitor scheme to operate in a busy metropolitan magistrates ' court may seem to many to be a natural consequence of all the other paraphernalia of a socially conscious profession . |
| 10 | A Peterlee pensioner has been chosen to represent the Durham constituency at a forthcoming European pensioners ' parliament . |
| 11 | A successful Potential Teachers ' day took place in London on 14 November last year . |
| 12 | AS PART of the Scottish women 's squad training , a Bulgarian national ladies ' team is visiting Scotland this week . |
| 13 | In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party . |
| 14 | Some teachers , I know , were concerned by the soundtrack quality of this video , when it was shown at a recent Qualified Teachers ' day . |
| 15 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |
| 16 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |
| 17 | A crowd of more than 10,000 ethnic Albanians gathered outside the provincial LC headquarters in the capital , Pristina , on Jan. 24 , and a representative of a new independent students ' group read out a list of demands . |