Example sentences of "[adj] boys ' [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other special services followed : The Reverend Wesley Gray brought the Dundonald Ladies ' Choir ; a team of nurses came from Lurgan and Portadown Hospital and a team of laymen came from Belfast : Thomas Street Old Boys ' Band and the Old Girls ' Association Choir came and one service was taken by Mr Donald Woodman BEM BA and the Portadown College School Choir . |
| 2 | With only ninepence in their pockets , they founded an old boys ' association that went on to include a thriving club ( albeit minus clubhouse ) , a sports field and four football teams competing in the Zingari and Old Boys Associations ' leagues . |
| 3 | The report says that the old boys ' network and prejudice are the main barriers to a woman 's career progress . |
| 4 | There 's something demeaning about Spielberg 's attempts to incorporate modern American youth culture : the Lost Boys ' rapping and skateboarding , more than anything , will prevent this movie from becoming a timeless classic . |
| 5 | The ‘ community ’ or comprehensive-type schools which are beginning to replace vocational and local church schools have a more religious flavour , as they may include the interests of a former convent , which the new school is in part replacing , a former vocational school , and possibly a former diocesan boys ' school as well . |
| 6 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |
| 7 | For the boys , Robert Chapman did well to win the bronze medal in the 1982 boys ' butterfly and Philip Traviss brought his bronze tally up to three with third place in the 1980 boys ' freestyle . |
| 8 | Gerry went into the big boys ' class and Julia and I into the kindergarten where infants of three flew past us effortlessly . |
| 9 | Stephen Birse , who competes for Middlesbrough and Cleveland , completed a fine double in the junior boys ' shot and javelin with throws of 12.41 metres and 47.37 metres both qualifying distances . |
| 10 | Purcell , a student at Longlands College , Middlesbrough , finished second to clubmate Darryl Churchill in the senior boys ' race and is not affected by the amendment . |
| 11 | WITHIN a few hours of arriving in Cape Town yesterday morning , the Scotland squad had a training and nets session at a local boys ' school where the facilities were superb . |