Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | An increasing number of monasteries and convents offer an eight days ' Ignatian retreat where the focus is on personal Bible meditation . |
2 | In June the FNTT , under the pressure of rising rural unemployment and employer intransigence , called an agricultural labourers ' strike , the swift collapse of which dealt a serious blow to the entire UGT . |
3 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
4 | It looks like scratchings from an old birds ' nest . |
5 | ‘ I 'd be disappointed if it was an old ladies ' outing . ’ |
6 | By the end of the year numbers had risen still further to 109 , and an Old Boys ' Association had been formed . |
7 | With only ninepence in their pockets , they founded an old boys ' association that went on to include a thriving club ( albeit minus clubhouse ) , a sports field and four football teams competing in the Zingari and Old Boys Associations ' leagues . |
8 | I think it 's an old wives ' tale that make-up ruins the skin . |
9 | It 's an old wives ' tale that make-up ruins the skin |
10 | An old wives ' tale ? |
11 | That 's only an old wives ' tale . |
12 | It was an old folks ' home . |
13 | After making her name as a prisoner of war in Tenko ( in which she appeared with Renee Asherson ) , Stephanie has been busy with a second series of the TV comedy Waiting for God about a group of crumblies living in an old folks ' home . |
14 | Leaving the harbour high on the Pultney side of the river I passed an old folks ' home looking out over that cold North Sea ; only the dawn in winter can show any warmth . |
15 | And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home . |
16 | Er I think she does a bit of part time I 'm not really sure what she does she comes and goes , she probably works in an old folks ' home or something , she has a uniform . |
17 | Thieves made off with £50 in cash from an old folks ' home in Windsor Court , off Newton Lane , Darlington . |
18 | As one Afro-caribbean elder said in an old peoples ' club : ‘ It is not only the climate that is cold in England ’ ( Grant , 1988 ) . |
19 | After consultation with the ward staff of the hospital where he was , and with the speech therapist , I drew a small house , his , and a large building , an old peoples ' home , and asked him to point to where he wanted to go . |
20 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
21 | If anyone is interested in playing for an Old Peoples ' Class on Friday mornings , starting in September at Dulwich , please contact . |
22 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
23 | An accompanying facilitators ' pack contains nine training sessions of roughly 90-minutes . |
24 | The accounts were easily readable with an interesting trustees ' report . |
25 | Precedents have been set by the Trans-Pennine Movement ( with an all-party MPs ' group in support ) , by the powerful counter-action in the North East when Scottish devolution was in the air ; the developmental spirit of the regional economic planning councils abolished by government in 1979 is abroad again , though unconnected , in all three regions . |
26 | ( The ‘ Daddy ’ caught the slight quack of an English girls ' public school . |
27 | The 18-year-old Ryton Comprehensive School pupil was over two seconds behind winner Debbie France , of Hull Achilles , but demonstrated the kind of talent which won her an English Schools ' title at Derby two years ago . |
28 | With an English manager in Geoff Cooke and an English forwards ' coach in Dick Best — as well as 16 Englishmen in the playing party — Hastings ' appointment in tandem with McGeechan 's at least gives the party a semblance of Celtic influence . |
29 | Ben Tillett , Tom McCarthy and Tom Mann , general secretary , organizer and president respectively of an enlarged Dockers ' Union became the original strike leaders , with John Burns coming later on to the scene . |
30 | The first real impact of the 1986 Act came to governors with the requirements to produce a formal report to parents and hold an annual parents ' meeting . |