Example sentences of "in a [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you assumed this public culture reflected political actuality you would be living in a fools ' paradise , the reverse side of Thatcherland . |
| 2 | It would prevent our living in a fools ' paradise of false prosperity . |
| 3 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 4 | The maximum fine in a Magistrates ' Court for breaches of ss 2 to 6 of the Act and of other sections relating to breaches of improvement notices , and prohibition notices or court remedy orders , has risen to £20,000 and all other breaches of the Act or subordinate Regulations and other relevant legislation now incur a maximum fine of £5,000 ( previously £2,000 ) . |
| 5 | The committal — this is a preliminary hearing in a magistrates ' court and little information usually emerges at this stage . |
| 6 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 7 | There was no inherent or common-law jurisdiction in a magistrates ' court to order rehearing of a case which had already been decided ( R. v. Campbell , ex. p . |
| 8 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 9 | ( And never do this in court , not even in a magistrates ' court ! ) |
| 10 | However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors . |
| 11 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |
| 12 | Public law proceedings must be commenced in a magistrates ' court unless there are already public law proceedings pending in a county court or the High Court or the application is made by a local authority following a s37 direction to investigate made in family proceedings in either court ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) . |
| 13 | This applies whether an application for an emergency protection order is heard in a magistrates ' court , county court or High Court . |
| 14 | But every week , thousands of Multiple Sclerosis sufferers across the country take comfort from spending an hour in a divers ' de-compression chamber . |
| 15 | All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery . |
| 16 | Here snack bars , kiosks , toilets , seats and other walker-orientated services would cluster in a pedestrians ' version of the motorway service station . |
| 17 | As priyayi he obtained an education in a Teachers ' Training School and was sent off to the little island of Bali . |
| 18 | He had the look of an old man waiting outside the doctor 's office in a paupers ' hospital ; sent for , rather than there by choice ; content to wait ; apathetic as to what the doctor would tell him , because good news no longer existed and bad news was no longer bad , but merely an essential ingredient of his condition . |
| 19 | By October she was back in London , billeted in a students ' hostel at Southampton Row , and worshipping at Regent Hall , where the Australian group had made such an impact the night of their arrival in Britain for the International Youth Congress . |
| 20 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 21 | During their trial separation , Robyn became deeply involved in a Women 's Group at Cambridge who met regularly but informally to discuss women 's writing and feminist literary theory . |
| 22 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 23 | One of the earliest to be shown was the 1950 film Caged , screened on ITV in 1968 : this featured Hope Emerson as a mannish , sadistic matron in a women 's prison . |
| 24 | My work experience includes one year as an accounts clerk , and two years as a shop assistant in a women 's clothes shop . |
| 25 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 26 | ‘ I have ended up with my children in a Women 's Hostel , still black and blue after the battering I got from the drunken unfaithful bully I was stupid enough to marry . |
| 27 | Maria Elena Aparicio was sentenced to seven years and is believed to be held in a women 's prison in Havana . |
| 28 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 29 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
| 30 | You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high . |