Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of a card vote will be announced today on a proposal by the NEC for the creation of a Labour women 's committee . |
| 2 | She suggests that in the 1850s divorce became the ‘ solution ’ to the threat of a Married Women 's Property Act ( not achieved until the last quarter of the nineteenth century ) , which would have threatened ‘ the symbolic economy that depended on and institutionalized ( such ) binary oppositions ’ . |
| 3 | Among the projects carried out by ERA-WACC during the year were : a colloquium held in Moscow on the MacBride Report , entitled ‘ Europe speaks to Europe ’ ; a conference on communication ethics ( also held in Moscow ) ; a worship workshop for TV producers in western and eastern Europe ; and the setting up of a European Women 's network . |
| 4 | This points to the existence of a distinctive women 's politics and culture prior to the entry of the term feminism into linguistic usage . |
| 5 | On Jan. 30 the Agence France-Presse news agency reported that some 20 Moslem clerics had been arrested in recent weeks and that a 40-year-old preacher had been sacked and condemned to 80 lashes in December after he had used his Friday sermon to insult the leaders of a Saudi women 's association . |
| 6 | Do n't entirely rule out the ultimate staging of a joint men 's and women 's event . |
| 7 | This originally appeared as part of a Fabian Women 's Group report based upon research from 1909 – 13 into the daily lives of families living in Lambeth . |
| 8 | The Harewood House charity auction , hosted by the Queen 's cousin the Earl of Harewood , is in aid of a new children 's day hospital in Leeds . |
| 9 | A mid-week meeting with a member of Diana 's circle in the incongruous circumstances of a working men 's cafe in North Ruislip outside London was the turning point . |
| 10 | In John v. Matthews ( 1970 D.C. ) a packet of cigarettes , displayed in the bar of a working men 's club bore the statement ‘ 3d. off . ’ |
| 11 | OXFORD university students were branded ‘ over-privileged plonkers ’ by the editor of a top women 's magazine yesterday after a debate turned into a drunken farce . |
| 12 | She does not deny the philosophical impetus toward a Horatian retirement , but suggests that garden retreats often had less to do with spiritual delights than with ‘ the bodily and social pleasures of a fashionable men 's club transposed to rural surroundings … |
| 13 | Halifax CAB has begun advice sessions for current and former occupants of a local women 's refuge . |
| 14 | The Sports Council recently awarded £200,000 towards the development of a British men 's team , with the aim of qualifying for the Olympics . |