Example sentences of "[conj] an [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
2 | The arguments for promoting competition were rejected in favour of the argument that an integrated airports ' policy was necessary and that this was best achieved by one company . |
3 | So , too , is the risk that an overcooked spinners ' pitch may be ruled out of order and points deducted at umpires ' question time . |
4 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
5 | With an English manager in Geoff Cooke and an English forwards ' coach in Dick Best — as well as 16 Englishmen in the playing party — Hastings ' appointment in tandem with McGeechan 's at least gives the party a semblance of Celtic influence . |
6 | By the end of the year numbers had risen still further to 109 , and an Old Boys ' Association had been formed . |
7 | Work on the 1,300MW power plant was due to begin in March or April , but an international donors ' meeting to set contributions for the $1,300 million project had been postponed in December . |