Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an amazing meeting , very much a men 's meeting . |
| 2 | It was becoming difficult to put together a Gentlemen 's eleven worthy of the name . |
| 3 | Not a children 's book at all , but a modern illustrated coffee-table book with careful , delicate photographs . |
| 4 | Pick up any book ( not a children 's book or one which is highly technical or full of pictures ) and open it where you have two complete pages of text . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not a children 's plaything to be toyed with , ’ he shouted . |
| 6 | As Young and Willmott ( 1973 , p. 227 ) say ‘ there was still a women 's world and a men 's , in social contacts as in other ways . ’ |
| 7 | Did it have any connection with the Castle Museum opposite the court , which was once a women 's prison ? |
| 8 | Had the topic not been abortion , unambiguously a women 's issue , the correct inference might not have been drawn . |
| 9 | There is also a children 's play area , and it is just east of Market Bosworth on B.585 . |
| 10 | The soft part of the contract includes low maintenance grass areas , high quality formal rolling lawns backing onto the buildings , putting greens for use by both patients and staff and also a children 's green . |
| 11 | There is also a children 's pool , shops and a tennis court . |
| 12 | Skilful lobbying has meant that its place has been taken by wrestling on the curious promise that there will be both a men 's and women 's competition in 1994 even though women have never established a real presence in freestyle wrestling as they have in judo . |
| 13 | Scattered through the policy review are proposals to : Drastically alter the status and organisation of the Department of Trade and Industry ; Create two departments — a Department of Consumer Affairs , and a Department for Legal Administration ; Create a Department of Environmental Protection within the existing Department of the Environment ; Set up a plethora of new commissions and executive agencies ; Set up a Women 's Ministry . |
| 14 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 15 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 16 | Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union . |
| 17 | And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own . |
| 18 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 19 | We quickly drew up a children 's broadcasting legend hitlist . |
| 20 | The lecture took place in the splendid hall of the former British Residency , now a women 's college . |
| 21 | Because of the shortage of money , we only sent two backstrokers to Antwerp in 1920 , and I came third in the trials , which were held in the open air pool at Southport , now a children 's playground . |
| 22 | This season , I have attended a National League game almost every weekend , district matches , the international trial , even a women 's game . |
| 23 | Billet , codling , flatfish , mackerel and whiting from the piers or the beach ; there 's even a children 's corner in the harbour . |
| 24 | Okay , well , the thing is why was there a women 's army , we all know that . |
| 25 | In Port Erin , where a women 's camp was set up , landladies were asked if they would accept internees at 3/ a day . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the latter insult is somewhat inaccurate : animators have a long history of injecting a little ‘ adult ’ spice into what is essentially a children 's medium . |