Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McColl is the first Scot to have won a boys ' winter series title . |
| 2 | Another happy collaboration between the Sports Council 's Greater London and South East Region Movement and Dance Liaison Group and the Westminster City Council resulted in a superb participatory weekend of movement and dance held at the Seymour Leisure Centre , 24–25 October , at which the Medau Society provided a Teachers ' Workshop and a Recreational Class , both taught by Margaret Charlwood . |
| 3 | He once tried to found a citizens ' police under the ‘ Fifth Estate ’ to monitor the doings of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 4 | By 1701 Myddlewood had attracted a squatters ' colony of fourteen cottages that formed a distinct , new settlement between Myddle village and the hamlet of Marton . |
| 5 | He refused to accept a travellers ' site at Loch Laggan as a fixed address for Frost , a first offender , who offered to pay at £10 per fortnight . |
| 6 | However , the only individual who appears to have a plan that will appeal to the developing world is Dr. Mustapha Tolba , head of the United Nations Enviroment Plan who proposed a users ' tax paid by the consumers of ozone depleting chemicals , to be collected by governments and used by developing countries both to modernise their production systems and to compensate the multi-nationals for the transfer of their most advanced energy effective technology . |
| 7 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 8 | The folk of these towns and villages took their convicted witches , stood them in pitch-filled barrels and set them afire : in Forres stands a witches ' stone , site of such burnings — in thunder , lightning , or in rain ? |
| 9 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 10 | At a meeting tomorrow , councillors will discuss a governors ' resolution that future payments be made only for work completed satisfactorily . |
| 11 | The housekeeper 's room even contains a servants ' library with books in three categories : ‘ One of books of divinity and morality : Another for housewifry ; A third of history , true adventures , voyages and innocent amusement ’ — the last , one notes , does not seem to include the novel . |
| 12 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 13 | In a very different vein , Sellafield nuclear plant has a visitors ' centre , which is surprisingly popular with tourists . |
| 14 | Oxford University also has a womens ' basketball team . |
| 15 | They will have to find the right balance between rule by unwieldy committee and by a chosen few ( or fewer , as at Clifford Chance , which has a partners ' council but where power , in practice , largely rests with the managing partner ) . |
| 16 | And they dismissed an inspectors ' report which doubted standards were being maintained . |
| 17 | Like every other lively class the Topper has an owners ' association which organizes rallies , open meetings , national and international championships . |
| 18 | The interim report to 30 June 1992 of Eurotunnel , the Anglo French group responsible for constructing and running the Channel Tunnel , contains an auditors ' attestation in accordance with French reporting regulations . |
| 19 | Nigel Profitt , 21 , of Erdington , Birmingham , and three other City supporters , were told by John Pryce , chairing a magistrates ' court hearing yesterday : ‘ You are nothing more than looters . |
| 20 | Another student , who had attended a girls ' grammar , felt that there were important differences between single-sex schools and mixed schools . |
| 21 | • Forming a secretaries ' club to offer discounts on meals , special interest events , wine-tastings , cookery demonstrations , sports days , hen nights etc. • Developing a Christmas programme aimed at office parties . |
| 22 | At nearby Newgate Bank we disembarked to inspect a gallows ' stone . |
| 23 | Our aim is to create a citizens ' Europe in which power lies as close to the citizen as possible . |
| 24 | Presumably , they would set out on one course of action , receive a consultants ' report which would blow them off their course , the journalists would then be summoned to Luigi 's restaurant and policy would once again be changed . |
| 25 | All this went through Princess Marie Louise 's mind , and on impulse she suggested to her family that she should ask her great friend , the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens , to design a dolls ' house for the Queen 's personal pleasure . |
| 26 | Three of the news stories or feature articles should be of 350 words or more and one should give a pupils ' view of what the next Government 's education policies should be . |
| 27 | If Mr Bulger , the proprietor of the Seagull Hotel , Loathesome-on-Sea , wishes to open a non-residents ' bar at the hotel to attract passing trade , whereas at present the hotel bar is open to residents only , does Mr Bulger require planning permission ? |
| 28 | When you initially approach an Alexander teacher , make sure that he or she has undergone a teachers ' training course that is recommended by The Society of Alexander Teachers ( STAT ) . |
| 29 | The bank , which also held its annual meeting yesterday , rejected a shareholders ' demand for it to sell its US-based fund management business , National Securities & Research . |
| 30 | A TORY council yesterday failed in a High Court bid to halt a teachers ' boycott of school tests . |