Example sentences of "[is] a [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's a women 's libber , if you do n't mind , a bloody Communist too , I should n't be surprised . |
| 2 | She 's a women 's libber , so it 's all on offer . |
| 3 | It 's a women 's problem and women have to solve it . |
| 4 | It 's a women 's issue , not an animals ’ issue . ’ |
| 5 | Top of the range is the Eiger , quite a substantial jacket , and there 's a ladies ' model as well , the Electra . |
| 6 | It 's a childrens ' paradise ; all the fun of the fair and the rides are free . |
| 7 | Do n't be put off by Garbage Beach , by the way — it 's a surfers ' paradise . |
| 8 | And there 's a children 's playground . |
| 9 | It 's a children 's card . |
| 10 | And football 's a gentlemen 's game played hoo hooligans . |
| 11 | The pilots used to say it 's a pilots ' plane — when you flew a Hurricane the pilot flew the plane , but when you flew a Spitfire , it flew itself . |
| 12 | It 's a men 's night . |
| 13 | THERE are always horses at Edelson House in Gainford if only because a part of the garden is a horses ' graveyard . |
| 14 | Eden Hall was extensively rebuilt in 1935 or thereabouts , and much of the original fabric removed at that time , today it is a girls ' school . |
| 15 | In her attempt to ascertain why anorexia nervosa is a girls ' rather than a boys ' disease , Selvini Palazzoli emphasises the manner in which the adolescent girl ‘ is exposed to lewd looks , subjected to menstruation , about to be penetrated in sexual embraces , to be invaded by the foetus , to be suckled by a child , etc . ’ |
| 16 | Here there is a visitors ' centre from which there are guided walks in the summer and plenty of books on sale to help identify species . |
| 17 | Now , it is a players ' market . |
| 18 | The official receiver or trustee can agree costs though if there is a creditors ' committee , they can require the trustee to ask for any costs payable out of the estate to be taxed . |
| 19 | A complete pride might contain two males , seven females , and some cubs , but the hunt is a females ' business . |
| 20 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 21 | This time it is a parents ' guide to assessment at Key Stage 3 . |
| 22 | At the moment , because it is coming up to Christmas and I have already started going to dinners , it is a Principles ' jacket . |
| 23 | ACAW is a women 's art/photography collective . |
| 24 | There is a Women 's Institute branch ( the W.I. — known , inevitably , as the Witches International by the habitués of the Smoke Room of the Red Lion ) , a Choral Group , and an Amateur Dramatic Society . |
| 25 | ( W ) is a women 's model , which usually has the same features but is built on a narrower last . |
| 26 | Researchers in this current are interested in Lakoff 's suggestion that there is a women 's language , but they criticise her negative evaluation of it . |
| 27 | Yet the regulatory regime he put in place is a meddlers ' charter . |
| 28 | In each of the three houses of Parliament there is a Ministers ' Council , each chamber having separate responsibility for the affairs of the population group it represents ( including housing , social welfare , health , education ) , while joint parliamentary responsibility is taken for " general " or national affairs ( including foreign policy , defence , finance , law and order ) , each of these functions at national level being reflected in a portfolio in the Cabinet itself . |
| 29 | In each of the three houses of Parliament there is a Ministers ' Council , each chamber having separate responsibility for the affairs of the population group it represents ( including housing , social welfare , health and education ) , while joint parliamentary responsibility is taken for " general " or national affairs ( including foreign policy , defence , finance and law and order ) , each of these functions at national level being reflected in a portfolio in the Cabinet itself . |
| 30 | But it is a lawyers ' word , and those not used to legal language might naturally think that it meant changing something or exchanging property for other property . |