Example sentences of "in an [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it has taught the parents a lot about how much science and technology is studied in an infants ' school , ’ head teacher Judy Nicholls told the Herald . |
| 2 | No doubt the Virgin Isles will crop up in an Airtours ' brochure before long . |
| 3 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 4 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
| 5 | Being dropped head first in an ants ' nest was too good for him ! |
| 6 | He delivers the wretched data of life in an itinerants ' lodging house . |
| 7 | RIVIERA RAINBOW * , who opened his account with a facile victory in an apprentices ' event on the all-weather track at Lingfield Park last month , does not appear harshly treated in today 's Barbican Handicap ( 2.45 ) at Pontefract . |
| 8 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |