Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |
| 2 | They bought a set of plans , hired space at a boat builders ' yard and set to work . |
| 3 | ‘ Lots of managers have to be cheats and conmen , ’ he once told a Football Writers ' Association dinner . |
| 4 | By the end of February he was on a second hours ' exercise , and Sister Cooney , who had watched his restless pacing and had seen that he was bored , found him some light work to do . |
| 5 | Head teachers decided to obstruct school performance league tables ; a second teachers ' union voted to boycott the national curriculum tests ; and Lord Skidelsky , a Tory member of the council which sets the tests , resigned . |
| 6 | Attended by observer from liberal parties from Europe and North America , a second Liberals ' Congress was held in Gdansk in November . |
| 7 | A FORMER head of a council children 's home was jailed for four years yesterday for indecency against young boys in his care which he committed almost 15 years ago . |
| 8 | The business , a specialist children 's educational and Christian bookseller , library and school supplier , will produce a special centenary brochure to be distributed to over 1,000 schools and 500 churches . |
| 9 | This recommended the creation of a specialist children 's service to replace the existing provision , which was fragmented among various departments , including public assistance . |
| 10 | Dr Nanayakkara said Liam 's death had caused him grave concern and he had been eager a specialist children 's pathologist should carry out the post-mortem examination . |
| 11 | AT the same time it is hoped to run a pilot scheme to introduce our work to those who already hold a dance teachers ' certificate and wish to learn more about our work . |
| 12 | A manpower resources ' plan summarised the personnel requirements by skill category and headcount , together with the required training programme . |
| 13 | At a Tuxis Boys ' camp the year before we had coined the word MELACHUSETUCK as an ‘ Indian name ’ for the camp . |
| 14 | They were discharged by their employers and the dispute spread , the union alleging that its agreement with the Association of 19 August 1911 provided that only foremen were exempted from holding a Transport Workers ' Federation card , which the employers denied . |
| 15 | Mr Morozov , said when he sought comment from a security forces ' official at University Square he was taken through four police cordons and lines of tanks to ‘ a short , thick-set man in civilian clothes with a hard voice and authoritarian air . ’ |
| 16 | GROWTH WITH A DIFFERENCE Farmers ' incomes are at their lowest since the war , and many have decided they must diversify to survive |
| 17 | After a low-key opening day , the Aberdeen tournament burst into life on finals night when Alison Bowie beat Emma Donaldson in a five-game women 's final , and then Peter Nicol inflicted defeat on Mark Maclean in the men 's decider that also went the full distance . |
| 18 | This has spawned and sustained a shop stewards ' movement reminiscent of the 1970s . |
| 19 | 5 A feature on safety aspects of carrying chemicals and other dangerous substances for a lorry drivers ' magazine . |
| 20 | Only a few weeks before , he had said in response to a publicity interviewers ' assertion that his father , John , had abandoned the family when he was born : ‘ My father and mother separated when I was a baby . |
| 21 | THIS was how actress Nina Hartley faced a challenge … to make a show-stopping appearance at a video dealers ' convention . |
| 22 | Simon says in a soap fans ' magazine : ‘ I 'd hate to be going out with some girl that all the boys were hassling or eyeing up . |
| 23 | THE son of millionaire fraudster Robert Maxwell tried to ban a charity children 's book which he claimed would set a jury against him . |
| 24 | Having housed a wartime officers ' mess and a succession of families , the house had undergone a motley array of alterations since it was remodelled in 1800 for a local mill owner . |
| 25 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 26 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 27 | When Samuelson and Solow wrote of trading off inflation against unemployment , what they were implicitly postulating was a policy makers ' social welfare function , , from which could be derived social indifference curves . |
| 28 | THE idea for a beer drinkers ' protection movement came to four young men holidaying in Ireland in 1971 . |
| 29 | A steel workers ' ballot at the end of January recorded 87 per cent in favour of strike action in support of wage demands , but a revised offer from the employers on Feb. 2 , equivalent to a wage increase of 6.35 per cent , was then accepted and the strike thus averted . |
| 30 | The Local Council , in nineteen hundred and four , had the courtesy to call a rate payers ' meeting to discuss the proposed acquisition of the estate and , with the approval of the meeting , proceeded with their purchase . |