Example sentences of "a [noun] ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event . |
| 2 | He graduated from the University with an LLB in 1950 and is a partner in a solicitors ' practice in Nottingham . |
| 3 | Tramp nightclub owner Johnny Gold lives out a housewives ' fantasy in the arms of the exotic Chippendale hunks on his camp Christmas card . |
| 4 | He was educated at the local church school then , at the age of twelve , went to work for a builders ' business in Lancaster . |
| 5 | Phil Bennett 's overall for a Lions ' scorer with his 18 points and equalled another record . |
| 6 | In a widely publicised incident a few months later Ben , diagnosed as schizophrenic , climbed into a lions ' cage at London Zoo . |
| 7 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 8 | A man stole a £5,500 caravan from outside a vets ' practice for his homeless girlfriend York Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 9 | This is the first visible sign of a shareholders ' revolt against the chairman , Sir Derek Alun-Jones , since the discovery of a £185m fraud which threatens the group 's future . |
| 10 | The bank , which also held its annual meeting yesterday , rejected a shareholders ' demand for it to sell its US-based fund management business , National Securities & Research . |
| 11 | This is probably what will happen at a shareholders ' meeting on March 13th , thanks to a closing of ranks by Germany 's top industrialists . |
| 12 | On April 16th the Philippine Supreme Court decided that the three Cojuangcos could vote at a shareholders ' meeting on April 19th , although the shares themselves remain sequestered . |
| 13 | Faced with a shareholders ' meeting in Hanover on March 13th , Mr Urban and his managers are on the defensive . |
| 14 | The team had a supporters ' club in which local women were represented . |
| 15 | The editor of Argumenty i Fakty , Vladislav Starkov , under strong criticism following the publication in early October 1989 of a readers ' poll of the most unpopular Congress deputies [ see p. 36980 ] , continued to defend himself vigorously in the media and his staff threatened to resign if he was dismissed ; in late October , however , the paper appeared to be trying to appease the party central committee by publishing both an interview with Yegor Ligachev , a leading conservative CPSU politburo member and central committee Secretary responsible for Agriculture , and also an opinion poll favourable to Gorbachev . |
| 16 | All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven . |
| 17 | Steve Martin 's manically over-conscientious dad steals the show , whether the news that his small , diffident young son needs psychiatric help or chewing the pitch as his offspring fumbles at baseball , and entertaining at a kids ' party as an unconvincing cowboy . |
| 18 | I could n't understand why I should want to leave the relative safety of the house in Fulham to walk into a hornets ' nest of horrified disapproval and rejection . |
| 19 | Coventry manager Gould was advised by West Brom chairman Trevor Summers not to go because police feared a fans ' backlash after Gould 's sacking by the club last season . |
| 20 | He resigned after a fans ' demonstration at a reserve team game . |
| 21 | At a drivers ' meeting in the spring of 1976 , Niki had proposed the Ring be boycotted . |
| 22 | Many clutched a commuters ' breakfast of buttered bun and polystyrene cup of coffee , weighing up the dilemma of being late for work against the lure of easy money . |
| 23 | The key element in the suspension of the strike was an order signed by Yeltsin at a miners ' rally in Novokuznetsk on May 1 to transfer all coal mines in the Russian Federation from central Soviet to Russian Federation government control . |
| 24 | He was RTS television reporter of the year in 1977 , when the award was first introduced , for his coverage of a mercenaries ' trial in Angola . |
| 25 | Here there is a visitors ' centre from which there are guided walks in the summer and plenty of books on sale to help identify species . |
| 26 | Lesley-Anne Cull , who is writing a parents ' handbook on the subject , would like to hear from you . |
| 27 | Last week I gave a talk to a parents ' committee in one of our schools on how to make a constitution — I felt I was contributing to the growth of grass roots democracy in South Africa . |
| 28 | There are parallels for schools ; if it pleases the customers then revamp the reading record card , add a parents ' race on Sports Day — making accommodations at the margins is equally easy for us too . |
| 29 | Mrs Williams , 54 , is the former headmistress of St Paul 's Girls ' school in London who was forced to quit by a parents ' rebellion over an attempt to limit the number of GCSEs her girls sat . |
| 30 | well we had a parents ' meeting on Monday night , but I did n't realize there was one |