Example sentences of "in a [noun pl] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came second in a women 's international free-for-all at the 1933 Chicago races , at 189mph , but while leading in the Phillips Trophy race at the same meeting lost fabric off a wing and was killed in the subsequent crash . |
| 2 | Unless the workers employed in a producers ' co-operative are the final custodians of its affairs , the bonus — or better , the bounty — remains a payment made as an act of grace ; and the co-operative is not properly so-called . |
| 3 | So if you are owed money by a company involved in a members ' voluntary liquidation the chances that you will get all you are owed are good . |
| 4 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 5 | Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes . |
| 6 | Gaby went to work in New York , Rose emigrated to Australia , taking Steve ( who had a spell in a Children 's Psychiatric Unit as a kind of punishment for killing Charley and who knew what else ) with her . |