Example sentences of "to a [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The reason for this is to ensure that all services central to a solicitors ' practice are regulated by the Law society . |
2 | There is little in this which is peculiar to a solicitors ' partnership dispute but with regard to the last noted remedy the court recognises the great and possibly irreparable harm that could be done by appointing a receiver over a professional firm and may be reluctant to make such an order at the behest of one disaffected partner ( see Floydd v Cheney [ 1970 ] Ch 602 and Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 ) . |
3 | All right , they say , a wife is a wife after all , but when it comes to a parents ' decision … |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
6 | For the police may apply to a magistrates ' court which can issue a ‘ warrant of further detention ’ if it reasonably believes this course of action to be justified . |
7 | If her answers were unsatisfactory , their report would be taken to a magistrates ' court the next morning and a petition for her " reception order " drawn up and signed by two people — preferably near relatives or representatives of the family . |
8 | There is an appeal against a notice to a magistrates ' court , but there is no express provision for representations prior to service of the notice . |
9 | There is an appeal against a notice to a magistrates ' court , but there is no express provision for representations prior to service of the notice . |
10 | An application for a warrant should be made to a magistrates ' court unless there are public law proceedings pending in the county court or the High Court ( APO , art 3(3) ) . |
11 | The trader can appeal to a magistrates ' court against the notice and obtain compensation if there has been no contravention . |
12 | , SCDI 's Tayside Area Chairman ( left ) , welcomed MP , Scottish Office Minister for Industry and Local Government , to a Members ' Dinner in September . |
13 | He is hired to move bales of cloth from a warehouse to a seamstress ' workshop a few streets away . |
14 | Satisfied , she retraces her steps until she comes to a Ladies ' cloakroom . |
15 | Sue asked Derek to a girls ' night out and he turned up as Diane . |
16 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
17 | A 12-YEAR-OLD boy who injured a finger in a heavy door when he and a classmate made a late-night visit to a girls ' dormitory during an educational outing , is suing Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council for £5,250 . |
18 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
19 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
20 | A British delegate to a teachers ' convention on sex education held in the United States , posed the question , ‘ Why have sex education in our schools ? |
21 | In some cases a postgraduate diploma is linked to a masters ' degree . |
22 | Anyone who was prepared to submit himself to a debtors ' prison for a token period could apply from The Fleet or the Marshalsea for the help of the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
23 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
24 | Haines , with an annual salary of £2,400 , was unable to pay and was consigned to a debtors ' prison . |
25 | They are now recognised as a branch of the British Conservative and Unionist Party , but only thanks to a peasants ' revolt within that party , and no thanks at all to the mandarins of Central Office . |
26 | So he kicks you out and settles down to a nine-months ' bender . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 … |