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Example sentences of "[noun] to a [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The category award winners ranged from a housing co-operative in Dundee to a children 's play area in an Essex village .
2	Last week I gave a talk to a parents ' committee in one of our schools on how to make a constitution — I felt I was contributing to the growth of grass roots democracy in South Africa .
3	They are now recognised as a branch of the British Conservative and Unionist Party , but only thanks to a peasants ' revolt within that party , and no thanks at all to the mandarins of Central Office .
4	Unfortunately this constitutes only the assessment of a candidate 's suitability for entry to an interpreters ' qualifying course .
5	Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting .
6	Secrets went on to lend its name to a women 's fiction weekly , and for Mills and Boon it laid the basis for a house style .
7	There is an appeal against a notice to a magistrates ' court , but there is no express provision for representations prior to service of the notice .
8	There is an appeal against a notice to a magistrates ' court , but there is no express provision for representations prior to service of the notice .
9	Sue asked Derek to a girls ' night out and he turned up as Diane .
10	Said to have an equal aversion to women and cats , he left most of his library to a women 's college , St Anne 's .
11	A British delegate to a teachers ' convention on sex education held in the United States , posed the question , ‘ Why have sex education in our schools ?
12	Before taking a decision on whether to take a case to a Children 's Hearing , the Reporter has to consider the reports from all the appropriate agencies .
13	A packed Underhill clubhouse heard George D Maxwell , no relation to the late tycoon Robert , promise , ‘ to give the shirt off my back , ’ during an impassioned plea to a supporters ' EGM .
14	It will be noted that failure to comply with a direction regarding structural alterations to a seamen 's canteen may result in a refusal to renew the licence It the next application , and not to a fine as under s.36 .
15	If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining .
16	After the incident , the infant had been taken into care but a sheriff held she had not been the victim of an offence and dismissed a referral to a children 's hearing .
17	Her parents had not accepted the grounds of referral to a children 's hearing , that L had been the victim of an offence , and the case had gone before Sheriff Sir Stephen Young at Greenock Sheriff Court .
18	MP Jim Wallace made his appeal for such an inquiry on the floor of the House of Commons ; and when the topic was brought up at the Scottish Liberal Democrats Conference , he was supported by Judy Steel , wife of the former leader of the Liberal Party , and herself one of the first ever Reporters to a Children 's Panel when the system began in 1971 .
19	The next thing they knew they were on their way to a Children 's Home run by nuns about twenty miles away : " It was nice and clean , I had a bath and went to bed .
20	A 12-YEAR-OLD boy who injured a finger in a heavy door when he and a classmate made a late-night visit to a girls ' dormitory during an educational outing , is suing Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council for £5,250 .