Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their chairman would have the support of both the Secretary of State and the LEA in discouraging , and ultimately forbidding , discussion of the performance of an individual pupil or teacher at an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 32 | An official teachers ' guide may recommend project work and locally based enquiry , whereas the official timetable renders such initiatives impossible by dividing up the day into small fragments . |
| 33 | So , too , is the risk that an overcooked spinners ' pitch may be ruled out of order and points deducted at umpires ' question time . |
| 34 | For those with no knowledge of Russian , there is an intensive beginners ' course , known as Russian 1A1/1A2 , with a total of eight to nine contact hours weekly , which allows students to spend two-thirds of their time in their first year on Russian . |
| 35 | Students with no previous knowledge of German are required to enrol for an intensive beginners ' language course in their first year . |
| 36 | While failure to establish an effective Teachers ' Council supports the view that teaching can not be regarded as a profession , the establishment of such a Council would be fraught with administrative difficulties . |
| 37 | Work on the 1,300MW power plant was due to begin in March or April , but an international donors ' meeting to set contributions for the $1,300 million project had been postponed in December . |
| 38 | In Wales the WRFU has set up an international players ' trust fund . |
| 39 | There 's an astoundingly dark deep gorge dividing Ben Alder and Aonach Beag called the Bealach Dubh , through which runs an eerie stalkers ' path . |
| 40 | An alternative consultants ' study calculates losses more realistically at between 600m and 1.8 billion ecus ( $740m-2.2 billion ) . |
| 41 | Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures . |
| 42 | Social workers who want to give serious attention to an elderly couples ' relationship which is causing unhappiness might find it helpful to find a colleague with whom to talk through their feelings about doing marital work , including the discussion of sexuality with an elderly couple . |
| 43 | Alison Fiske plays the housekeeper Mrs Pearce like the brisk and plummy matron of an exclusive girls ' boarding school , while Robin Bailey offers continuous delight as a ripe and fruity Col Pickering , finding humour in even the most unpromising lines . |
| 44 | Teenager Barbara Sleeman made an explosive start when she decided to open an exclusive ladies ' golfwear company , ON THE GREENS . |
| 45 | The arguments for promoting competition were rejected in favour of the argument that an integrated airports ' policy was necessary and that this was best achieved by one company . |
| 46 | For a girl used to the noise and chaos of an all girls ' apartment , Buckingham Palace felt like anywhere but home . |
| 47 | And maybe because I went to an all girls ' school , it 's not so obvious , you do n't see girls and boys walking hand in hand in the playground . |
| 48 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 49 | There 's over 120 pages of invaluable advice and inspiration plus an informative Gardeners ' Manual to pull out and collect . |
| 50 | For example , Felicity , who had attended an independent girls ' school where all the teaching staff were women , said : |
| 51 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 52 | We have created an independent Teachers ' Pay Review Body . |
| 53 | Delegates representing miners in most Soviet coalfields held a week-long congress in mid-June in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk , at which it was decided in principle to set up an independent miners ' union . |
| 54 | A second independent miners ' congress , held in Donetsk ( Ukraine ) , ended with a declaration on Oct. 26 that it had been the founding congress of an independent miners ' trade union . |
| 55 | His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission . |
| 56 | A representative of an independent observers ' group comprising United States and Canadian citizens of Serbian extraction and led by US congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley told a press conference on Dec. 26 that it had found irregularities which would have rendered the elections illegal in the West . |
| 57 | Central 's fraud officers were called in by Falkirk after an independent auditors ' report on the club 's finances . |
| 58 | An Important Collectors ' Edition Limited to 25,000 Worldwide |
| 59 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 60 | An All-Russian Peasants ' Union was formed and at its first congress , which met in secret in July , it demanded the abolition of private property in land and the convening of a constituent assembly . |