Example sentences of "at a [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the volume of urgent management business at a governors ' meeting is so great that the welfare of children in a caring environment can become a marginal issue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She failed , too , to get jobs in boarding kennels and at a vets ' practice . |
| 6 | POLICE last night named a man they want to quiz in connection with the murder of Michael Huntington at a nurses ' home party 11 days ago . |
| 7 | This is probably what will happen at a shareholders ' meeting on March 13th , thanks to a closing of ranks by Germany 's top industrialists . |
| 8 | On April 16th the Philippine Supreme Court decided that the three Cojuangcos could vote at a shareholders ' meeting on April 19th , although the shares themselves remain sequestered . |
| 9 | The company will therefore lose its quotation after the measures are approved at a shareholders ' meeting . |
| 10 | Electronic stencil cutters , offset litho machines and many audio.visual reproduction facilities are , in today 's circumstances , beyond the budget of small and medium-sized schools , but can be provided at a teachers ' centre for co.operative use . |
| 11 | The little boy was discovered in his buggy at a citizens ' advice bureau with a note pinned to him . |
| 12 | Her toddler Gareth Mr Ashworth 's son was missing and the hunt was extended to Scotland after the youngster was abandoned at a citizens ' advice bureau near Glasgow . |
| 13 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 14 | The last time we met he was singing the number at a Friars ' Club gala in New York and , for all the lofty intellectual disdain one feels obliged to muster at tuxedo circuit events , it was undeniably impressive to see him afterwards , the only British subject in the room , surrounded by Lauren Bacall , Lena Horne and Gwen Verdon . |
| 15 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 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 | 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 " . |
| 18 | At a managers ' jamboree in Beijing , he dressed up as Confucius . |
| 19 | It blossomed forth at a Managers ' meeting when ‘ somebody from Marketing ’ gave an in-depth talk on selling skills and creating opportunities to sell , using Branch data . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 23 | In her books this is to be found at its most extreme in Sara Crewe ( 1888 ) — expanded , following the stage version , as The Little Princess ( 1905 ) — a Cinderella story where a bullied little drudge at a girls ' school is restored to riches and esteem and the tyrannical headmistress humiliated . |
| 24 | ‘ Arthur 's Cousin Amy , ’ responded his sister firmly , ‘ works as a secretary at a girls ' boarding school . |
| 25 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 26 | THE body of a new-born baby was found yesterday in a locker at a girls ' grammar school . |
| 27 | Around five thousand converged on the Commons to lobby their MPs and the Labour leader sought to step up the pressure on wavering conservatives at a pensioners ' rally . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 30 | At a drivers ' meeting in the spring of 1976 , Niki had proposed the Ring be boycotted . |