Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He once tried to found a citizens ' police under the ‘ Fifth Estate ’ to monitor the doings of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 2 | He refused to accept a travellers ' site at Loch Laggan as a fixed address for Frost , a first offender , who offered to pay at £10 per fortnight . |
| 3 | The first aim of the NVALA was to establish a Viewers ' and Listeners ' Council which would consist of elected representatives of the ‘ churches , women 's organisations , magistrates , doctors , educationalists , parents , youth , social workers , police , political parties , local government and writers ’ . |
| 4 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 5 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 6 | At nearby Newgate Bank we disembarked to inspect a gallows ' stone . |
| 7 | Our aim is to create a citizens ' Europe in which power lies as close to the citizen as possible . |
| 8 | All this went through Princess Marie Louise 's mind , and on impulse she suggested to her family that she should ask her great friend , the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens , to design a dolls ' house for the Queen 's personal pleasure . |
| 9 | If Mr Bulger , the proprietor of the Seagull Hotel , Loathesome-on-Sea , wishes to open a non-residents ' bar at the hotel to attract passing trade , whereas at present the hotel bar is open to residents only , does Mr Bulger require planning permission ? |
| 10 | a ) We need to characterise a process ' behaviour as a communicating agent . |
| 11 | A TORY council yesterday failed in a High Court bid to halt a teachers ' boycott of school tests . |
| 12 | Following this was the rodeo World Championships on the Bitches which decided at the last minute to include a ladies ' competition . |
| 13 | New Forum , which had first emerged in September 1989 [ see p. 36895 ] , decided at a delegates ' conference in Leipzig on Jan. 6 not to form a political party but to remain a citizens ' movement which was " open to citizens of different ideological and party opinions " . |
| 14 | In 1952 I received a county grant , enabling me to attend a girls ' public school in the Home Counties . |
| 15 | It is very helpful to attend a relatives ' group . |
| 16 | In cold weather male golfers may prefer to use a ladies ' ball because it will have similar feel to that of a 90 compression ball in normal temperatures . |
| 17 | The 18th Century Brew House has been converted to form a Visitors ' Centre . |
| 18 | " We started falling out over it , so we decided to form a tenants ' movement , " one of the tenants told me . |
| 19 | Malone , the fourth quarterback to start a Steelers ' opener in as many seasons , hooked up with Lipps for a 33 yard completion to the Colts ' 18 yard line on the Steelers ' third offensive play . |
| 20 | Later she helped to run a girls ' club in Whitechapel . |
| 21 | She was later to run a ladies ' outfitters in nearby Gorleston , on the Suffolk coast . |
| 22 | And they plan to hold a residents ' meeting today to protest at the Durham County Council scheme . |
| 23 | A spokesman for Ferranti said Sir Derek had no reason to fear a shareholders ' revolt and there were no indications that there would be one . |
| 24 | To describe a process ' first step behaviour we will thus use three levels of syntax : essentially one for each variety of choice . |
| 25 | Quigly , Willis and Frome — it would have formed a sufficiently high-sounding trio of names to grace a solicitors ' firm . |
| 26 | The CNAA had to decide not only the merits of the particular case , but whether it would be willing and able ( under its Charter ) to validate a teachers ' certificate as well as a degree , and how it might relate to the Area Training Organizations which had some responsibility for the teaching practice component of existing courses . |
| 27 | For March we have decided to have a members ' evening . |
| 28 | ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared . |
| 29 | We perhaps had a works ' er we had to have a works ' holiday yeah . |
| 30 | In West Germany , every residential facility has to have a residents ' committee by law — this may not work in every case , but it speaks of a different attitude to the residents themselves . |