Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 2 | He spent three years in New York State as resident secretary of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club , a rich men 's recreation park on the Hudson River , whence he could keep an eye on wealthy Irish-Americans . |
| 3 | While there existed a small women 's civil rights organization , the Liga Femenina Salvadorena , whose members were from the impatient middle classes , it could not be described as a broad women 's suffrage movement . |
| 4 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 5 | I must admit that we ourselves started out with a strong women 's following , but I think that 's because of society and the way men are brought up not to be so immediately emotional . |
| 6 | On Jan. 30 the Agence France-Presse news agency reported that some 20 Moslem clerics had been arrested in recent weeks and that a 40-year-old preacher had been sacked and condemned to 80 lashes in December after he had used his Friday sermon to insult the leaders of a Saudi women 's association . |
| 7 | Among the projects carried out by ERA-WACC during the year were : a colloquium held in Moscow on the MacBride Report , entitled ‘ Europe speaks to Europe ’ ; a conference on communication ethics ( also held in Moscow ) ; a worship workshop for TV producers in western and eastern Europe ; and the setting up of a European Women 's network . |
| 8 | The results of a card vote will be announced today on a proposal by the NEC for the creation of a Labour women 's committee . |
| 9 | First , though , two Scottish Office representatives , a retired Children 's Panel reporter , Alan Finlayson , and an under-secretary to the Secretary of State , travelled to Orkney to review the Children 's Panel and Social Work systems . |
| 10 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
| 11 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
| 12 | It 's summer 1992 , a poetry reading evening in a working men 's club . |
| 13 | A mid-week meeting with a member of Diana 's circle in the incongruous circumstances of a working men 's cafe in North Ruislip outside London was the turning point . |
| 14 | She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country , and ran a working men 's club . |
| 15 | It may Lie that the sale of cigarettes for the same purpose to a working men 's club is a consumer sale . |
| 16 | In John v. Matthews ( 1970 D.C. ) a packet of cigarettes , displayed in the bar of a working men 's club bore the statement ‘ 3d. off . ’ |
| 17 | Gigs with a working men 's club band and a solo stint in a club in Saltburn . |
| 18 | A few children 's homes have been opened but they also double as reformatories for young offenders . |
| 19 | The EEG unit electro-encephalogram unit is one of the most advanced in a British children 's hospital . |
| 20 | The Sports Council recently awarded £200,000 towards the development of a British men 's team , with the aim of qualifying for the Olympics . |
| 21 | The move won Gordon the heavyweight Open title and provided a much-needed lift for a British men 's team who were inevitably overshadowed by the success of the women . |
| 22 | A Marine Firemen 's Union was already in existence in Hull when the Grimsby society accepted formal registration in 1872 and was later opened to deckhands . |
| 23 | A further children 's book on gardening is worth noting here , Let's Go Gardening by Ursula Kruger ( Lutterworth , February , £9.95 , 0 7188 2879 8 ) , though portions of it seem to be the work of Wiggle the Worm and Sunny the Sunflower Seed . |
| 24 | The point was made that while it was valuable to have a specific workshop to deal with the issue of women , all the other workshops and all the topics discussed should have a clear women 's perspective . |
| 25 | OXFORD university students were branded ‘ over-privileged plonkers ’ by the editor of a top women 's magazine yesterday after a debate turned into a drunken farce . |
| 26 | The main competitions will be held on the Sunday together with a free children 's event . |
| 27 | FWWG Sports and Social Club versus an Ellon team were to play , with the winners of this game vying with the Spey Valley Rotary Club , and a Scottish Women 's Rural Institute . |
| 28 | Both parents ordered him to stop calling his sister ‘ Brian ’ , a nickname derived from a slow and rather dull-witted snail who featured in a popular children 's TV show , ‘ The Magic Roundabout ’ . |
| 29 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 30 | Hopkins refers to a German seamen 's manifesto of March 1917 , " with its impudent assertion that , apart from a few " isolated mistakes " U-boat warfare had been conducted with respect for human and humane principles " . |