Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour Party unveiled plans for a women 's ministry , which would have a seat in the cabinet . |
| 2 | Spence , 57 , of South Shields , Tyneside , contacted a hospital saying she wanted to raise funds for a children 's unit . |
| 3 | Lying across your knees like a maharani 's scarf . |
| 4 | It was like looking at one of those pictures in a children 's book in which there was a glaringly obvious deliberate mistake . |
| 5 | A doctor told my parents of a children 's holiday scheme in Switzerland . |
| 6 | It is the members of a Children 's Hearing who will decide whether your child can return to live with you . |
| 7 | To view them as members of a gentlemen 's club , whose rules are predicated upon principles of service and public interest is to ignore the power structure of which they are a part . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is clear from the Act that ‘ proceedings before a judicial authority ’ can be taken to include proceedings before a children 's hearing : a children 's hearing is a ‘ tribunal , body or person holding power ’ under statute ‘ to determine any question affecting the rights , privileges , obligations or liabilities of any person , or to receive evidence affecting or determining any such question ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ … ( e ) in any proceedings before a children 's hearing under the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 or on appeal from any such hearing ; … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have ended up with my children in a Women 's Hostel , still black and blue after the battering I got from the drunken unfaithful bully I was stupid enough to marry . |
| 12 | As mysterious as the absence of children in a children 's theme park is the fact that the exact cast for the gala is also secret . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( 5 ) A licence under this Part of this Act may , in a case where it is proposed to construct or convert premises for a seamen 's canteen , be a provisional licence to be made final after the proposal has been carried out ; and Part II of the said Schedule 2 shall have effect as respects such licences . |
| 15 | " licensed premise " does not include the premises of a seamen 's canteen ( s. 139(1) ) . |
| 16 | On arriving at Cape Town we found that the rumours of a seamen 's strike were very real , and that several boats were delayed in Table Bay owing to the crews ' refusing to take the vessels to sea . |