Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 36 | Dolly had stirred up a hornets ' nest when she pinched the wallet , and he had n't made it any better by steaming the letter open . |
| 37 | For the moment , he was canny enough to see the wisdom of keeping his stepson sweet , and that would not be achieved by stirring up a hornets ' nest . |
| 38 | but of course , it had kind of stirred up a hornets ' nest ! |
| 39 | The referendum had been scheduled for November but had been postponed at the request of the political parties following the transitional government 's evident difficulties in drawing up a voters ' register . |
| 40 | 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 … |
| 41 | We quickly drew up a children 's broadcasting legend hitlist . |
| 42 | G M B pensioners were represented on the first delegation to visit the E E C in Brussels , in an effort to secure parity with the pensions in other European countries , and we also took part in the pensioners parliament in Luxembourg last year , to help to draw up a Pensioners ' Charter for Europe . |
| 43 | From Herston , formerly a quarriers ' hamlet , the mile-long High Street began , comprising virtually all the town-aspiring village of Swanage . |
| 44 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |
| 45 | In the building industry , not only in France but also in Sweden , West Germany , Italy , as well as in Britain , the main body was ( and still is ) both an employers ' and a trade association since it is not easy to separate the negotiation of wages from matters such as agreed arrangements for contract tendering . |
| 46 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 47 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 48 | Tramp nightclub owner Johnny Gold lives out a housewives ' fantasy in the arms of the exotic Chippendale hunks on his camp Christmas card . |
| 49 | The lecture took place in the splendid hall of the former British Residency , now a women 's college . |
| 50 | ‘ We 're now a growers ' co-operative , ’ David Gardner explained . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Mozzarella was originally made from buffalos ' milk but it is now a cows ' milk cheese . |
| 53 | The residents have their own furniture and are self-sufficient , although there is often a meals ' scheme as well as a communal laundry . |
| 54 | Originally an Artisans ' trophy but extended to the senior club at the former 's invitation in 1951 . |
| 55 | The hotel boasted passenger lifts , electric bells , revolving doors and even a ladies ' smoking room , which were very advanced for the period and reflected the Midland Railway 's innovative character . |
| 56 | This season , I have attended a National League game almost every weekend , district matches , the international trial , even a women 's game . |
| 57 | Billet , codling , flatfish , mackerel and whiting from the piers or the beach ; there 's even a children 's corner in the harbour . |
| 58 | Mixed exhibitions tend to have rather perfunctory introductions and catalogue entries ; the same is often true of exhibitions arranged by groups of artists , though they may have statements of aim or even an artists ' manifesto . |
| 59 | Conversely , in the case of the metalworking industry in all these five countries the main body is exclusively an employers ' association , since the great diversity and heterogeneous product range of the industry ( basic steel , cars , electrical equipment , etc. ) precluded representation via a single trade association . |
| 60 | I seem to have stirred up quite a hornets ' nest . |