Example sentences of "a [noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He resigned after a fans ' demonstration at a reserve team game . |
| 2 | This followed an argument seven months previously about a stewards ' inquiry into a televised race . |
| 3 | There still remains the primary need for all agreements , however limited in scope , which affect the partners to be set down clearly and exhaustively in writing to avoid subsequent dispute : such writing may range from the proper minutes of a partners ' meeting to a separate manual describing a firm 's management process as a guide , in the largest firms , to enable every partner and every employee to identify the person responsible for any particular aspect of the firm 's administration . |
| 4 | And he was tired mentally , for once he addressed a bishops ' meeting for a whole hour without stopping . |
| 5 | However many feathers must have been ruffled in the process Eva survived and received a further vote of confidence iii her leadership skills when she was appointed principal of Usher Institute , a girls ' school with a growing reputation , south of Howard in Matabeleland . |
| 6 | It had a smoking-room with fitments and atmosphere to rival the most exclusive gentleman 's club , a ladies ' drawing-room like a miniature boudoir with silk , tapestry and chaise-longue in the style of Louis XV , but the piece de resistance was the dining-car . |
| 7 | Anyone who was prepared to submit himself to a debtors ' prison for a token period could apply from The Fleet or the Marshalsea for the help of the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 8 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 9 | Another possibility worth considering is taking articles with the clerk of a magistrates ' court with a view to this type of appointment . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) The primary function of a students ' association of a college established under this paragraph shall be to represent the interests of students of such college . |