Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Next day , in a classic Boys ' Own move , Neame and two other Britons — Jonathan Tinker and Harry Taylor — set the Sherpas an example by trudging off up the mountain , loaded with supplies . |
2 | The tournament is again a Belfast Telegraph copyright , and one of 12 in a European Seniors ' calendar now worth over £800,000 in prize-money . |
3 | His greatest successes came on the cup front , scoring the goal that took the FA Cup to the Bridge in 1970 ( the only time Chelsea have won it ) , and the following season sharing in a European Cup-Winners ' Cup replay triumph over Real Madrid . |
4 | Demi Moore has out-styled Julia Roberts , Mariah Carey and Cher by becoming Hollywood 's best tressed star in a recent hairdressers ' poll . |
5 | Jan Murray , the England left wing , avoids becoming the filling in a Finnish defenders ' sandwich during the UEFA Women 's Championship Group Three game at Brentford yesterday . |
6 | They live in a political cowards ' Disney world where Tom is always chasing Gerry in an ever-decreasing circle of options while , outside in the real world , Bugs Bunny is having his tail shot off as he chokes on the latest political carrot . |
7 | Nathan Adams , 18 , David Elsom , 17 , Jason Green , 17 , Simon Lindley , 17 , Gavin Saunders , 17 , Richard Whittaker , 18 and Nicholas Crook , 18 , were sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
8 | He was sentenced to six months in a young offenders ' institute . |
9 | If she was a boy , she says , she would have been put in a young offenders ' institution . |
10 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Elsdon to 21 months and Cook to 19 months , both in a young offenders ' institution . |
11 | He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years . |
12 | Raymond Allison , 17 , of Amberley Green , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , was sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institute when he appeared before Teesside Crown Court yesterday . |
13 | Thompson was sentenced to 27 months in a young offenders ' institute , and Livingstone was fined £150 . |
14 | Burglar sentenced : Jamie Raper , 20 , of Wharfe Way , Darlington , was yesterday sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to 12 months in a young offenders ' institution after he admitted burgling a house in Carmel Road North , Darlington . |
15 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
16 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
17 | She was a pianist and he met her while they were both taking part in a young performers ' competition . |
18 | She taught music in a private girls ' school in Edinburgh . |
19 | There was the Masters ' Room on the ground floor — they took it out to put in a new directors ' lift — and whenever one of our ships docked in London her master would come for a drink and a chat with Mr.Andrew — like a sort of club , it was . |
20 | In the past year she has won classes at Aldershot and Farnborough , Basingstoke and Woking Festivals and has taken part in a week-long performers ' workshop at the Edinburgh Festival . |
21 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |
22 | Uncle Kevin was in a big solicitors ' practice : they 'd find a place for him . |
23 | Her parents Robert and Carol joined in the hunt , which ended on Boxing Day when a man walking his dog in a nearby lovers ' lane found Johanna 's black trainers in a hedge . |
24 | This chapter contains an overview of the present state of play , and considers the basic requirements for practice in a conventional solicitors ' partnership . |
25 | In a management buy-out , the managers are in a unique insiders ' position . |
26 | Living in the house , Farrel soon discovered , was like being a very junior NCO in a senior officers ' mess . |
27 | Wendy , 40 , is a secretary/receptionist in a local doctors ' surgery . |
28 | Once , in an American girls ' school , I watched a prize-giving ceremony in which candles were lit one by one , accompanied by spoken declarations such as : ‘ I light the lamp of scholarship ’ . |
29 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
30 | Western Legend , off the course all last season with leg problems after gaining four victories early in his chasing career , returned to top form last month when scoring unchallenged in an amateur riders ' chase at Wincanton . |