Example sentences of "a [noun pl] ' [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He graduated from the University with an LLB in 1950 and is a partner in a solicitors ' practice in Nottingham . |
| 2 | Tramp nightclub owner Johnny Gold lives out a housewives ' fantasy in the arms of the exotic Chippendale hunks on his camp Christmas card . |
| 3 | He was educated at the local church school then , at the age of twelve , went to work for a builders ' business in Lancaster . |
| 4 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 5 | Faced with a shareholders ' meeting in Hanover on March 13th , Mr Urban and his managers are on the defensive . |
| 6 | The team had a supporters ' club in which local women were represented . |
| 7 | At a drivers ' meeting in the spring of 1976 , Niki had proposed the Ring be boycotted . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Oldham 's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers ' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding . |
| 12 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
| 13 | THE POLGARS live on the eighth floor of a block of flats on Semmelweis Street , a workers ' area in Budapest . |
| 14 | 5.2 ‘ Corner ’ lodgers in a workers ' flat in St Petersburg in the 1890s . |
| 15 | New Forum , which had first emerged in September 1989 [ see p. 36895 ] , decided at a delegates ' conference in Leipzig on Jan. 6 not to form a political party but to remain a citizens ' movement which was " open to citizens of different ideological and party opinions " . |
| 16 | Civic Forum , the movement which had emerged to lead the November 1989 revolution in the Czech lands and which with its Slovak sister organization Public Against Violence had won the June 1990 general election [ see p. 37542-43 ] , elected the Federal Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus as its first chair at a delegates ' meeting in Prague on Oct. 13 . |
| 17 | At a managers ' jamboree in Beijing , he dressed up as Confucius . |
| 18 | Er , we had a breeders ' meeting in October which was I enjoy them very much , I enjoy the the talk because it 's the first chance I get during the year when I can sit down and listen and I do n't have to worry about them generally , in another club , I do n't have to worry about minutes or anything , I just sit and listen and it 's great it , I really enjoy that . |
| 19 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 20 | Our third decision dates from 1960 and concerns an industrial dispute at a printers ' works in London . |
| 21 | Men 's pores release five times as many natural chemicals , called pheromones , at this time of year , according to Dr Kelly , who will air his theory at a chemists ' conference in Guildford , Surrey , today . |
| 22 | In the early 1960s the PFA , under Jimmy Hill 's leadership , threatened a players ' strike in support of the abolition of the maximum wage . |
| 23 | However , after a short period in 1732 at the Dissenting Academy in Findern , Derbyshire , he became a justices ' clerk in Sheffield until 1737 and then commenced work as a carrier between Sheffield and Macclesfield . |
| 24 | Namibia requested some US$270,000,000 for each year of its 1990-92 reconstruction programme at a donors ' conference in New York on June 21-22 . |
| 25 | Japan , which was expected to pay the largest share of the UN 's cost in Cambodia , had announced its intention to organize a donors ' conference in Tokyo before March 1992 . |
| 26 | At a donors ' meeting in Paris on July 27-28 , 1989 , US$200,000,000 of the estimated US$600,000,000 needed for the economic reform programme was raised . |
| 27 | A joint Mozambique government and World Bank report , released at a donors ' meeting in Paris on Dec. 10 , warned that half of the country 's 16,000,000 people faced starvation , largely as a result of the civil war . |
| 28 | TELEVISION presenter Jayne Irving tells me she has become a forces ' pin-up in Bosnia . |
| 29 | , SCDI 's Tayside Area Chairman ( left ) , welcomed MP , Scottish Office Minister for Industry and Local Government , to a Members ' Dinner in September . |
| 30 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |