Example sentences of "[noun] [is] a [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Another major objective of the plan is a volunteers ' block , providing messing and hostel accommodation .
2 A family service guaranteed to pack the school hall is a mothers ' day assembly particularly if mums , including teachers , receive a gift of a small posy of spring flowers .
3 Yet the regulatory regime he put in place is a meddlers ' charter .
4 If you want your holidays , you have them in the summer time and May Day is a workers ' day .
5 A complete pride might contain two males , seven females , and some cubs , but the hunt is a females ' business .
6 THERE are always horses at Edelson House in Gainford if only because a part of the garden is a horses ' graveyard .
7 Caboc is a cows ' milk cheese made in small cylindrical shapes and rolled in toasted oatmeal to give it a more distinctive flavour .
8 They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another .
9 Conservatives are foolishly lulling themselves with their own rhetoric if they think that the reformed Labour Party is an image-makers ' fantasy .
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