Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] ' " 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 | No constitutional action is necessary when the government is returned with an absolute Commons ' majority , as happened in l906 , l918 , 1922 , 193l , 1935 , l950 , 1955 , 1959 , 1966 , October 1974 , 1983 and 1987 . |
| 30 | The Opposition was returned with an absolute Commons ' majority in 1924 , 1945 , 1951 , 1964 , 1970 and 1979 . |