Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was an amazing meeting , very much a men 's meeting . |
2 | The ancient Globe Inn , the Wesleyan Ebenezer Chapel opposite , and some 18th century cottages form an attractive conservation area in Bell Street , Herston , formerly almost entirely a quarriers ' hamlet . |
3 | After this remarkable visit , the volcano continued to be active for a week or two , but the explosive activity died down somewhat , and it began to look as though the eruption was going to be just a nine-days ' wonder , and would soon fade away and be forgotten . |
4 | Largely a relatives ' organization , it campaigns for better services , runs relative support groups and is beginning to consider providing more direct care services . |
5 | A man stole a £5,500 caravan from outside a vets ' practice for his homeless girlfriend York Crown Court heard yesterday . |
6 | So far , shorting is still a specialists ' game , but a growing one . |
7 | As Young and Willmott ( 1973 , p. 227 ) say ‘ there was still a women 's world and a men 's , in social contacts as in other ways . ’ |
8 | Did it have any connection with the Castle Museum opposite the court , which was once a women 's prison ? |
9 | Liquidation proceedings will start once a creditors ' meeting has taken place . |
10 | Had the topic not been abortion , unambiguously a women 's issue , the correct inference might not have been drawn . |
11 | There is also a Girls ' Choir and a Primary Boys ' Choir . |
12 | The soft part of the contract includes low maintenance grass areas , high quality formal rolling lawns backing onto the buildings , putting greens for use by both patients and staff and also a children 's green . |
13 | There is also a children 's play area , and it is just east of Market Bosworth on B.585 . |
14 | There is also a children 's pool , shops and a tennis court . |
15 | From Herston , formerly a quarriers ' hamlet , the mile-long High Street began , comprising virtually all the town-aspiring village of Swanage . |
16 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |
17 | The lecture took place in the splendid hall of the former British Residency , now a women 's college . |
18 | Because of the shortage of money , we only sent two backstrokers to Antwerp in 1920 , and I came third in the trials , which were held in the open air pool at Southport , now a children 's playground . |
19 | Mozzarella was originally made from buffalos ' milk but it is now a cows ' milk cheese . |
20 | The residents have their own furniture and are self-sufficient , although there is often a meals ' scheme as well as a communal laundry . |
21 | This season , I have attended a National League game almost every weekend , district matches , the international trial , even a women 's game . |
22 | Billet , codling , flatfish , mackerel and whiting from the piers or the beach ; there 's even a children 's corner in the harbour . |
23 | I seem to have stirred up quite a hornets ' nest . |
24 | Okay , well , the thing is why was there a women 's army , we all know that . |
25 | Of its own motion the court may decide to bring a private prosecution to the attention of the Crown Prosecution Service ; indeed a justices ' clerk is obliged to do so if a private prosecutor withdraws or fails to proceed in circumstances in which the reason given appears unsatisfactory . |
26 | The late Tim Brookshaw , not famous for faint-heartedness , danced an eloquent jig on top of the last fence at Leicester to show how hard it was , and one day there was almost a jockeys ' strike at Plumpton . |
27 | Seven of the previous eight labour-contract renegotiations have involved either a players ' strike or a lockout . |
28 | Unfortunately , the latter insult is somewhat inaccurate : animators have a long history of injecting a little ‘ adult ’ spice into what is essentially a children 's medium . |
29 | It was the fact that this was essentially a planters ' system which ensured that the stations were built of a standard and elegance which a plantocracy could use with comfort . |
30 | Its main concern is that Motif should evolve from what is now essentially a developers ' tool to become an end user product . |