Example sentences of "a [noun pl] 's [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved from handbags through gifts to the flower shop and eventually reached a men 's outfitting department where , suddenly , she saw Edward . |
| 2 | In 1901 he was appointed conductor of the Toynbee Musical Association , a mixed-voice choir attached to a men 's social club , and in 1906 he founded the Glasgow Orpheus Choir , with which his name became indelibly linked for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | In the afternoon there were sports on the playing fields for the children , a children 's fancy dress competition , welly-throwing greasy pole , side-stalls and a tombola . |
| 4 | Rhos-on-Sea where the new breakwater forms its own natural harbour , has a continental atmosphere , and many amenities , such as a Children 's paddling pool and par putting . |
| 5 | What was between them was , I vaguely recall , a children 's classic drama serial , i.e. Charles Dickens dramatisations etc . |
| 6 | Pint-sized Brenda appears with husband John as the Krack and Dorn duo , does a children 's magic act , and is fast becoming one of the stars of the after-dinner speaking circuit . |
| 7 | Gaby went to work in New York , Rose emigrated to Australia , taking Steve ( who had a spell in a Children 's Psychiatric Unit as a kind of punishment for killing Charley and who knew what else ) with her . |
| 8 | Then with energy to spare you proceeded to participate in the ‘ Measured Medau Mile ’ to raise funds not only for the Society but also , through the British Kidney Patient Association , for a Children 's Renal Unit at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 9 | When less than a year later she topped the bill with Jason at a Children 's Royal Variety show at the Dominion Theatre she was not about to make the same error of judgement . |
| 10 | Even more important , perhaps , were the discussions about the notion of a women 's aesthetic : again and again , the attempt to articulate the new and unspoken came up against the absence of an appropriate language . |
| 11 | In 1927 they converted Robins 's fifteenth-century Sussex house , Backsettown , into a women 's convalescent home , which it remained until 1989 . |
| 12 | I was night relief nurse in Hope , a women 's acute medical ward , and tonight was one of the rare nights when all three Hope night nurses were on together . |
| 13 | In the autumn they established a Women 's International League based on a joint platform of women 's rights and pacifism : ‘ only free women can build up the peace which is to be . ’ |
| 14 | She came second in a women 's international free-for-all at the 1933 Chicago races , at 189mph , but while leading in the Phillips Trophy race at the same meeting lost fabric off a wing and was killed in the subsequent crash . |
| 15 | A Women 's Industrial Council investigation of 10,000 girls during the 1890s found that 5 per cent spent an hour at midday and between two and four hours after school , as well as Saturdays , thus employed . |
| 16 | We have seen that in the media reporting at the stage of the trial a women 's sexual conduct is often brought into question . |
| 17 | There was a sense of sisterhood , of a women 's literary tradition , and there was overt rejection of the idea . |
| 18 | Meanwhile at Thorey Island , one of the groups is under the charge of Corporal Alison Miller , Whose civilian job is as a secretary , but at weekends she becomes a Women 's Royal Army Corps Provost NCO . |