Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ken Tyrell , head of the Tyrell Racing Organisation and leader of a members ' action group opposed to the deal , says : ‘ I 'm not involved in this business anymore , but I 'm sure the new board will sort it out . |
| 32 | Farr-Jones said the whole notion of a players ' company was for all the players to be involved , not to feather the nests of a select upper echelon . |
| 33 | He 's a bit of a ladies ' man , ’ he said , adding ‘ Nigella Lawson — she 's very tasty , nicer than in her picture . |
| 34 | Ever the gentleman he even managed to pick a Michael Fallon sticker off the bottom of a ladies ' shoe , only to get it stuck on his own . |
| 35 | And no other care taken either , except for the broth Sairellen had sent round , and the collection she had organized afterwards to pay an undertaker and avoid the consequences of a paupers ' grave . |
| 36 | This is the first visible sign of a shareholders ' revolt against the chairman , Sir Derek Alun-Jones , since the discovery of a £185m fraud which threatens the group 's future . |
| 37 | Patten also announced a comprehensive package of social and economic reforms , including the establishment of a monetary authority to ensure monetary stability , the establishment of a business council to advise the Governor " on how best we can sustain our economic growth " , a review of freedom of information and press laws , the introduction of a citizens ' charter to make bureaucracy more accountable , and the abolition of capital punishment . |
| 38 | For many , having the facilities of a Citizens ' Advice Bureau in the village means there is someone who will listen to their problems and offer confidential and expert advice . |
| 39 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 40 | Onlookers paying £40 a head might have disagreed , for though the clothes were gorgeous and the models undeniably pretty , the atmosphere was more like that of a girls ' boarding school than an haute couture show . |
| 41 | Peacock 's Crochet Castle was surrounded by gravel workings ; Disraeli 's Bentham was decaying behind Ministry of Defence barbed wire ; and the lawns of Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park were engulfed by the classrooms of a girls ' school . |
| 42 | She was the headmistress of a girls ' school . |
| 43 | ‘ When I was 16 , I sang outside the window of a girls ' school . |
| 44 | Rather than waiting for more individual tenants to bring the same problem , it would be more efficient for the bureau to alert the local authority concerned and to explore with interested clients the possibility of a tenants ' association . |
| 45 | The Cornwallis Stakes also has the look of a bookmakers ' benefit , but the rugged Somethingdifferent , who ran so well behind Welney in a high-class event at Newbury , could be hard to contain . |
| 46 | This means that instead of a Lions ' debut being guaranteed for the 10-times-capped Garryowen player against Canterbury in Christchurch on Wednesday week , he might miss the match . |
| 47 | The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event . |
| 48 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 49 | Service companies The attractiveness of service companies in the administration of a solicitors ' practice will by and large depend upon the perceived fiscal advantages at any particular time ( see Chapters 5 and 10 ) . |
| 50 | It is not the purpose of this or the following chapter to present a comprehensive guide to the administration of a solicitors ' practice or to advise as to the ways in which its profitability can be increased . |
| 51 | ( b ) Professional conduct Given the nature of a solicitors ' practice , even in the absence of a written agreement it would readily be implied that each partner owed a duty to his co-partners to observe the professional conduct regulations promulgated by the Law Society . |
| 52 | In the ordinary course of a solicitors ' practice the partners will meet at regular intervals to discuss the affairs of the firm ( Clause 17.03 ) . |
| 53 | Unfortunately the 1926 Illuminations had to be terminated prematurely because of a miners ' strike , although they were reinstated for one night on October 2 for the opening of New South Promenade by Lord Derby . |
| 54 | In addition , in February 1974 , these interlocking groups had special reasons for wanting a Conservative government returned apart from the fear of a miners ' victory leading to anarchy and national bankruptcy . |
| 55 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 56 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 57 | West Ham 's assistant manager Harry Redknapp has been another victim of a fans ' fit-up . |
| 58 | Whereas for Marxist-Leninists , the nationalization of property in the hands of a workers ' State ensured that through the institutions which represented them — the State , the party , the soviets and the trade unions — the working masses were now in command , for libertarians this represented little more than a ‘ change of guard ’ . |
| 59 | Calls for the creation of a workers ' soviet , including a summons by the Bolshevik Vyborg District Committee to form it at the Finland Station in the Vyborg district , became widespread . |
| 60 | Australian rescue workers in Newcastle yesterday recovered another body in the wreckage of a workers ' club , bringing to 10 the official death toll in Thursday 's earthquake . |