Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where do we need for a Kids ' County where are we after ? |
| 2 | Item No. 6 : looks like a jewellers ' blow torch , having a fine patination . |
| 3 | The soldiers race into a wasps ' nest , driving the occupants out . |
| 4 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 5 | The trader can appeal to a magistrates ' court against the notice and obtain compensation if there has been no contravention . |
| 6 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 7 | When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) . |
| 8 | 2912 built in 1942 was built as a Directors ' Saloon for the LMSR and seconded for Royal Train duty after nationalisation . |
| 9 | Inside , the walls of the packed Pontllanfraith leisure centre were hung with a miners ' banner and posters from the 1987 campaign : outside the speech was broadcast via a video link to hundreds more standing spellbound in a field . |
| 10 | The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . |
| 11 | After some uneventful voyages over the years , and at least seven previous masters , the Orynthia seemed to have turned into a hornets ' nest . |
| 12 | If you assumed this public culture reflected political actuality you would be living in a fools ' paradise , the reverse side of Thatcherland . |
| 13 | Polly thrust it back into her bag , embarrassed at being caught doing things more properly done in a ladies ' cloakroom , and furious at her own embarrassment . |
| 14 | Such an order can be sought from a magistrates ' court on evidence that a representative sample is unsafe and the authority does not need to secure a conviction in this respect . |
| 15 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 16 | An application for a warrant should be made to a magistrates ' court unless there are public law proceedings pending in the county court or the High Court ( APO , art 3(3) ) . |
| 17 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 18 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 19 | Profits made by a parents ' association are liable to taxation , registration with the Charity Commissioners enables the association to escape tax liability . |
| 20 | In the family proceedings court an appointment may be made by a justices ' clerk . |
| 21 | Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ? |
| 22 | So oft we went , leaving Pop at ‘ Prospect Lodge ’ in Simla ( a holiday home for missionaries ) until he was asked to go down to Poona and look after a soldiers ' club . |
| 23 | Never underestimate how terrified many people are when faced with the prospect of going into a solicitors ' office . |
| 24 | In a widely publicised incident a few months later Ben , diagnosed as schizophrenic , climbed into a lions ' cage at London Zoo . |
| 25 | I could n't understand why I should want to leave the relative safety of the house in Fulham to walk into a hornets ' nest of horrified disapproval and rejection . |
| 26 | There can be no doubt that this sort of help is most valuable for teachers , and where it can not be provided from a curriculum development project itself might in less ambitious form be offered from a teachers ' centre or from a schools library service , although in the latter case the advice on sub-themes and topics would necessarily be tentative rather than prescriptive . |
| 27 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 28 | The company will therefore lose its quotation after the measures are approved at a shareholders ' meeting . |
| 29 | ( b ) Powers of a justices ' clerk Certain functions of the court may be performed by a justices ' clerk who may in turn delegate these functions to any clerk of the court authorised for this purpose . |
| 30 | It must however be emphasized that these powers can not be used by a solicitors ' incorporated practice to do anything in breach of the Solicitors Act 1974 , the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to incorporated practices — in this regard attention is drawn to the proviso set out in Clause 3(a) . |