Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controversial clash with the RSC begins over Wesker 's play , The Journalists , which is cancelled after an actors ' rebellion . |
| 2 | This tendency has been especially marked within large establishments in the engineering and chemical industries , although multi-employer bargaining by means of an employers ' organisation still remains the predominant pattern in highly competitive industries with low capitalisation and a high ease of entry such as clothing , construction and printing ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 4 | Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf . |
| 5 | When that will was vitiated either by the monarch 's evil counsellors or , as the later theoreticians of military indiscipline were to maintain , by the corrupt operation of Parliamentary institutions run by a clique of national ’ politicians , then it could be salvaged by the heroic gesture of a general or the conspiracy of an officers ' mess . |
| 6 | The determinants of an individuals ' welfare can be broadly classified as depending upon their own capacity to care for themselves combined with ( a ) market activities and relationships ; ( b ) the behaviour of ‘ significant others ’ as providers of ‘ informal care ’ amongst whom family members are likely to be the most important ; and ( c ) the role played by the state . |
| 7 | For instance , one may have to identify the real settlor of an employees ' trust or a trading trust . |
| 8 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 9 | The bird simply sits on top of an ants ' nest and allows the ants to climb all over it , squirting their defensive fluids as they do so . |
| 10 | The garden became like an ants ' nest as snaking rows of people clambered up our hillside . |
| 11 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point means intentionally as opposed to accidentally and unlawfully as opposed to lawfully such as an artists ' model . |
| 12 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it has taught the parents a lot about how much science and technology is studied in an infants ' school , ’ head teacher Judy Nicholls told the Herald . |
| 14 | No doubt the Virgin Isles will crop up in an Airtours ' brochure before long . |
| 15 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 16 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
| 17 | Being dropped head first in an ants ' nest was too good for him ! |
| 18 | He delivers the wretched data of life in an itinerants ' lodging house . |
| 19 | RIVIERA RAINBOW * , who opened his account with a facile victory in an apprentices ' event on the all-weather track at Lingfield Park last month , does not appear harshly treated in today 's Barbican Handicap ( 2.45 ) at Pontefract . |
| 20 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 21 | A claimant dissatisfied with the decision of the insurance officer could have the decision reviewed by a local Court of Referees consisting of a chairman appointed by the Minister of Trade , one member chosen from an employers ' panel and one member chosen from a workmen 's panel . |
| 22 | Several butterfly species live out their caterpillar stage inside an ants ' nest . |
| 23 | With these facilities the way is open for customer database files to automatically be retrieved and displayed on an operators ' screen before the phone is answered — the kind of time saving integration between phone and workstation that telesales operations dream about . |
| 24 | Imagine , for example , that two people have an identical dream — for the sake of argument we can conjecture that it concerns standing on an ants ' nest . |
| 25 | One of her hobbies was anaesthetics , and she subscribed to an anaesthetists ' journal in which she had seen an advertisement for a chemist who outfitted doctors ' waiting-rooms and surgeries . |
| 26 | Because of his knowledge of languages Blake was recommended for a commission and was sent on to an officers ' training course at HMS King Alfred which in the spring of 1944 he passed and was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the RNVR . |
| 27 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 28 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |
| 29 | The effect of this is that equity shares , or rights to them , can be allotted as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme without first offering pre-emptive rights . |
| 30 | But , if equity shares or rights to them are to be issued in other circumstances , they first have to be offered to all equity shareholders in proportion to their holdings whether or not these were acquired as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme . |