Example sentences of "[noun] be a [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 And football 's a gentlemen 's game played hoo hooligans .
2 ACAW is a women 's art/photography collective .
3 The entire village is a children 's paradise , a stimulating world just waiting to be discovered .
4 Another major objective of the plan is a volunteers ' block , providing messing and hostel accommodation .
5 A family service guaranteed to pack the school hall is a mothers ' day assembly particularly if mums , including teachers , receive a gift of a small posy of spring flowers .
6 Yet the regulatory regime he put in place is a meddlers ' charter .
7 London 's most up-to-date professional bike shop is a workers ' co-operative .
8 The only thing on the ground floor that was similar to a dressing-room was a gents ' loo , so we set about disguising its true purpose by dressing it up for the evening .
9 If you want your holidays , you have them in the summer time and May Day is a workers ' day .
10 The Royal Duke was a fishermen 's pub with an afternoon trade from men who had brought their catch in during the small hours of the morning .
11 In the driest of summer days the bottom meadows are a ducks ' paradise .
12 His grandfather worked the coalface and his father was a Miners ' Union official .
13 Mills died on Melia 's 20th birthday and he recalls that when he was a child , Freddie was a boys ' idol and boys used to pretend to be him .
14 By now , Hoover was a politicians ' nightmare — perceived by some as the perfect cop , but known at close range for his rants , his sexual obsessions , his card index and his file cabinets which by now contained all the sins , real and imagined , of the political world .
15 A complete pride might contain two males , seven females , and some cubs , but the hunt is a females ' business .
16 THERE are always horses at Edelson House in Gainford if only because a part of the garden is a horses ' graveyard .
17 Christmas Day in Bart 's Kenton ward was a children 's delight as staff pulled out all the stops to ensure patients had a magical day .
18 In the park is a children 's playground with a carousel .
19 Caboc is a cows ' milk cheese made in small cylindrical shapes and rolled in toasted oatmeal to give it a more distinctive flavour .
20 Mairi is a children 's book author ( Kirsty Morag stories ) but my interest and knowledge of her related to a lovely , sympathetic and realistic representation of travel in this marvellous part of the world in her beautifully illustrated book , An Eye on the Hebrides .
21 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 . ’
22 They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another .
23 Conservatives are foolishly lulling themselves with their own rhetoric if they think that the reformed Labour Party is an image-makers ' fantasy .
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