Example sentences of "[noun] in a [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would prevent our living in a fools ' paradise of false prosperity . |
| 2 | ( Now thanks to Nancy Barclay 's resourcefulness and the generosity of her employers we are storing books for Christian Aid in a lawyers ' office until Mrs. Paton 's cellar is ready again ) . |
| 3 | They met after care assistant Gillian , of Aintree , put an ad in a Forces ' newspaper asking for a pen-pal a year ago . |
| 4 | She also did voluntary work in a girls ' club , which brought her into contact with the local women 's trade union council , the Women 's Co-operative Guild , and ultimately the Labour party . |
| 5 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 6 | The procedure in a debentureholders ' action is lamentably expensive and dilatory , since the receiver , as an officer of the court , will have to work under its closest supervision and constant applications will have to be made in chambers throughout the duration of the receivership , which may last years if a complicated realisation is involved . |
| 7 | Er , by all means , go , go through all this stuff in a weeks ' time and throw out th , those things you do n't need . |
| 8 | The comments of one respondent in a mid-1980s ' study of mothers with pre-school children which I conducted reflected a theme identified in other studies of family life ( see Brannen and Wilson , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | As priyayi he obtained an education in a Teachers ' Training School and was sent off to the little island of Bali . |
| 10 | 5.2 ‘ Corner ’ lodgers in a workers ' flat in St Petersburg in the 1890s . |
| 11 | The maximum fine in a Magistrates ' Court for breaches of ss 2 to 6 of the Act and of other sections relating to breaches of improvement notices , and prohibition notices or court remedy orders , has risen to £20,000 and all other breaches of the Act or subordinate Regulations and other relevant legislation now incur a maximum fine of £5,000 ( previously £2,000 ) . |
| 12 | There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks … |
| 13 | But every week , thousands of Multiple Sclerosis sufferers across the country take comfort from spending an hour in a divers ' de-compression chamber . |
| 14 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 15 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |
| 16 | Frith in a wasps ' nest ! |
| 17 | Nowadays I am inclined to compromise where as once I would have felt confident of victory in a dogs ' confrontation . |
| 18 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 19 | However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors . |
| 20 | Like an illustration in a childrens ' book , you look at it and know there will be magic on the other side . |
| 21 | The committal — this is a preliminary hearing in a magistrates ' court and little information usually emerges at this stage . |
| 22 | There was no inherent or common-law jurisdiction in a magistrates ' court to order rehearing of a case which had already been decided ( R. v. Campbell , ex. p . |
| 23 | Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes . |
| 24 | Under the Solicitors Accounts ( Deposit Interest ) Rules 1987 , solicitors have a duty to account to their clients for the interest earned by the placing of such monies in a solicitors ' client account . |
| 25 | He had the look of an old man waiting outside the doctor 's office in a paupers ' hospital ; sent for , rather than there by choice ; content to wait ; apathetic as to what the doctor would tell him , because good news no longer existed and bad news was no longer bad , but merely an essential ingredient of his condition . |
| 26 | Her mother disowned her and she was sent , as was the custom then , to live out her pregnancy in a girls ' hostel near Cambridge , doing housework for her keep . |
| 27 | David Cooper , a partner in a solicitors ' firm , was less cheerful : ‘ A Labour victory will cost me £250,000 a year . |
| 28 | He graduated from the University with an LLB in 1950 and is a partner in a solicitors ' practice in Nottingham . |
| 29 | I am writing as the senior partner in a solicitors ' practice , employing over 20 people , in reply to some of the comments spreading gloom and despondency about the Labour Party 's proposals in the areas of taxation , economic growth and training . |