Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1897 she supported moves , viewed with dismay by the established women 's societies , to found a separate women 's university to examine students at Oxford , Cambridge , and Royal Holloway College , London . |
| 2 | Insert your ticket , if you are fortunate enough to have one , into one of the newly-installed electronic barriers designed to reduce fraud ( handy tip for cheapskates : exit barriers are happy to accept a cheap children 's ticket regardless of age ) . |
| 3 | I 'm sure if founding a National Children 's Theatre was included in a political manifesto , that party would win-over Dahl fans the country through . |
| 4 | The Devon Coast Holiday Park enjoys sea views and has a small children 's play area . |
| 5 | Try to arrange things in such a way that a player has a few bars ' rest before his solo passage begins . |
| 6 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |
| 7 | this time in promoting a Private Members ' Bill , which came to the statute book as the Civic Amenities Act , 1967 . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the Scottish Ladies ' Golfing Association has named a 12-strong girls ' squad for Sunday 's training match against Helensburgh boys . |
| 9 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 10 | I am part of a group of individuals from various professions who are interested in developing a National Children 's Legal Centre in Ireland . |
| 11 | When they stopped , sometimes at the junctions between seasons , Tallis could feel the flow of time , the great spiral storm that curled around some focus a few days ' riding to the north . |
| 12 | If they take their work home with them , maybe they 'll do a few hours ' work off the mains . |
| 13 | I would like to stress that I wish to hear from all who may be enthusiastic , not just pilots ; I have no wish to create a posing pilots ' paradise . |
| 14 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
| 15 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 16 | Then along came a new managers ' tool for community care planning called The X Factor . |
| 17 | She walked rapidly back to the hotel and collected her car from the parking area , then drove back and parked a few cars ' lengths from the boatyard . |
| 18 | The Agency has produced a new leaders ' guide for people organising outings of up to five miles with family or friends . |
| 19 | The media would still be able to cover current stories but within a longer-term , in-depth perspective so that Ethiopia or the Lebanon , Westland or nuclear disarmament do not simply occupy a few weeks ' worth of front page/main bulletin coverage per year . |
| 20 | THE dramatic rises planned on domestic fuel bills is a ‘ fatal blow ’ for the elderly , claimed a leading pensioners ' campaigner . |
| 21 | Every ceremony includes a few minutes ' silence in which believers can pray . |
| 22 | The first floor accommodates the bedrooms for the guests — each bedroom being paired with an en suite bathroom — together with sleeping accommodation for the proprietor and his family , while the ground floor includes a large guests ' lounge , TV room and breakfast room to the east of the main entrance/staircase hall . |
| 23 | James , 19 , working in the hall under a community service order , has had a few months ' work for the council since leaving school . |
| 24 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |
| 25 | These exists a parallel women 's movement , calling for a general return to modesty and the veil , in addition to the main programme of its male counterpart . |
| 26 | But from then onwards , they were always asking me to join , but by then I had already opened a young wives ' belonging to the church . |
| 27 | Management organized a Black workers ' meeting because they needed our response to a report on ethnic minorities . |
| 28 | And the very day we were with her she opened a new Citizens ' Advice Bureau in Beccles with considerable aplomb — no easy task after SHE fashion team had stunned the locals by setting up an ironing board in the middle of the town car park and giving Christine 's purple suit a quick press on the spot . |
| 29 | The magnificent fight which the Spanish workers have waged against the Fascist … has been the wonder of the world … . the Council organized a Mass Meeting in Bradford to place the true facts before the public , and also opened a Spanish workers ' Relief Fund in conjunction with the TUC Solidarity Fund … . |
| 30 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |