Example sentences of "a [noun prp] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 2 | The girl who marked a Moscow Games ' baptism by placing sixth in a final at the age of 14 is coming for a Tuesday night clinic in which she will demonstrate her famous shrug-of-the-shoulders technique on breaststroke . |
| 3 | ANCIENT feudal rights are blocking plans for a Paisley children 's nursery and the jobs it would provide , though the local district council has given the project planning permission . |
| 4 | He went out of his way to meet foreign visitors from all walks of life — politicians certainly , but also a delegation from a Nobel prizewinners ' congress , a group of doctors connected with the medical movement against nuclear war , the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez , a group of writers including Arthur Miller and James Baldwin who were attending the Issyl-Kum forum in 1986 , and many others . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't Cry For Me Argentina ’ is n't quite right for a Falklands Veterans ' meeting . |
| 6 | The focus came from lighted candles ( outside the War Office in 1991 , on a Prague students ' grave in 1991 , in every blacked-out Polish window in 1980 ) , rather than crosswires and scanners . |
| 7 | And although the proposal for a BPS women 's section was opposed by the women on the BPS Council , it had strong support among less powerful female psychologists , and students . |
| 8 | An idea of the costs involved were given in a Coventry officials ' confidential report to councillors and fellow officials in the seventies . |
| 9 | On May 11 a UN Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) official said that up to 1,700,000 people were in danger of being infected by diarrhoeal diseases . |
| 10 | A UN Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) team led by Ezio Gianni Murzi , whose findings were reported on May 12 , concluded that although essential services and supplies , including medicines , were slowly being restored , assistance was still desperately needed [ see pp. 37986-87 ; 38082-83 ; 38164 ] . |
| 11 | A Sunday boys ' league official forecast that the league , of about 2,000 boys aged between 9 and 15 , faced collapse as the result of the price increase from £1.35 to £4 . |
| 12 | And he once passed on to BitC an invitation he had received requesting him and the Princess to open the conference of a Brent Women 's Association , with a note saying , ‘ Do you think I should do it ? |
| 13 | On March 20 Junzo Okudaira was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment after being found guilty of planting a car bomb which killed five people outside a US servicemen 's club in Naples in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 14 | SECURITY is to be stepped up at a Darlington pensioners ' community centre following two break-ins . |
| 15 | She is redoing her A-levels in chemistry , physics and biology in the sixth form of a London girls ' school . |
| 16 | The engine ran successfully non-stop from Tywyn to Nant Gwernol with a TRPS members ' special before it was taken out of traffic . |
| 17 | Indeed , when Mt Rowland and Lonrho were themselves the subjects of a DTI inspectors ' report in 1976 , they had no such protection . |
| 18 | The commander of the Western Front virtually ordered the Smolgubispolkom to eject school number 9 out of what was now a Volga orphans ' home run by a ‘ revolutionary military committee ’ . |
| 19 | Best stunned the audience at a Belfast footballers ' dinner with his racist outburst in an X-rated speech peppered with four-letter words . |
| 20 | Last week it put out a DCE Developers ' Kit for OpenVMS on VAX platforms . |
| 21 | Health Secretary William Waldegrave told an NHS managers ' conference in London that in January long term waiting lists had been cut by thirty percent . |
| 22 | Sue Hastings , of the Trade Union Research Unit at Ruskin College in Oxford , recently warned delegates at an RCN stewards ' conference that clinical nurses — especially those in high-tech areas and with teaching roles — would lose out through job evaluation , She argues that existing job evaluation schemes are too often management-biased , with the danger that clinical specialists who did well out of clinical grading might find themselves downgraded . |
| 23 | Albert Geldard , who gained an FA Cup-winners ' medal with Everton in 1933 and won four England caps , has died in a Bury hospital , aged 75 . |
| 24 | Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 . |
| 25 | Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 . |
| 26 | The two sides in the battle over admitting men to an Oxford women 's college have been putting their case to University Chancellor , Lord Jenkins . |
| 27 | PROFESSIONAL footballers talked about their personal goals when they gave a talk on physical fitness to an Essex joggers ' club . |
| 28 | TWO MEN are due to appear before magistrates today after a shooting incident at an Essex travellers ' camp . |
| 29 | Played host to a film crew for an HTV children 's programme on tobacco use |
| 30 | An EC monitors ' document , which was leaked to the Yugoslav press on Dec. 2 , accused the JNA of " brutal aggression " and called on the EC to use force against it . |