Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 2 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 3 | Somewhat like a dolls ' house the building was formerly the Congregational Mission Hall opened in 1872 . |
| 4 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 5 | So he kicks you out and settles down to a nine-months ' bender . |
| 6 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 7 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 8 | It 's more like a childrens ' afternoon TV show than a science lesson , but there 's a message in every device . |
| 9 | It blossomed forth at a Managers ' meeting when ‘ somebody from Marketing ’ gave an in-depth talk on selling skills and creating opportunities to sell , using Branch data . |
| 10 | The 90 recommendations of the inquiry included the phasing out of seclusion , better staff training and the setting up of a patients ' advocacy service . |
| 11 | For example , there is no need to reset hard copy since the typesetting department can download text straight from a clients ' word-processing or desk top publishing discs . |
| 12 | No doubt the Virgin Isles will crop up in an Airtours ' brochure before long . |
| 13 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 14 | The $2,000 prize was set up by a patrons ' organization of the National Museum of American Art in honour of Charles C. Eldredge , former director of the museum . |
| 15 | The Prince Albert was not the only ship to be held up by a dockers ' strike : at the East India Docks , the Jolly George with a similar load of armaments for Poland , was prevented from sailing . |
| 16 | Built around the turn of the century , it had been designed originally as a soldiers ' barracks . |
| 17 | The real Cardiff Bay barrage story is rather different from the one on the poster ( enough so far for a residents ' association , the Cardiff Flood Action Committee , to have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority , and for the RSPB to be considering following suit ) . |
| 18 | Subsection ( 7 ) deals with cases where a deposit has been made out of a clients ' account or the like . |
| 19 | Instructions I copied out from a girls ' annual for 1954 . |
| 20 | However , the charm of the city raised her spirits and her first impressions after a night out at an artists ' ball were fresh and delightful : ‘ You ca n't walk home at dawn in Paris , even two hundred yards . |
| 21 | Because of his knowledge of languages Blake was recommended for a commission and was sent on to an officers ' training course at HMS King Alfred which in the spring of 1944 he passed and was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the RNVR . |
| 22 | Against all reason they felt it could turn his slow decline around like a Lourdes ' miracle . |
| 23 | ( And never do this in court , not even in a magistrates ' court ! ) |
| 24 | Earl Grey never goes down well in a boys ' school — there 's that touch of Milady 's Boudoir about it . |
| 25 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 26 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 27 | This followed an argument seven months previously about a stewards ' inquiry into a televised race . |
| 28 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |