Example sentences of "in a recent [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a recent telephone conversation with the CAA I was connected with the department that allocates frequencies for such beacons . |
| 2 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 3 | Amid the storm over the criteria used , a Bangor school , which by its own admission existed on a low profile in the past , came out top in Northern Ireland in a recent newspaper guide to choosing the best of education . |
| 4 | The offices are so old-fashioned that one was used as Scrooge 's office in a recent film version of A Christmas Carol . |
| 5 | The prevalence of hypertension is significantly greater in non-diabetic blacks than whites ( Comstock , 1957 ; Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program Co-operative Group , 1977 ) , and similar findings have been confirmed in a recent clinic survey of diabetics at a District General Hospital ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | This overview , culminating in a recent case study of American police practices , offers a reasonable basis for predicting future British trends . |
| 7 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 8 | Hill , who impressed the team with his speed in a recent test session at Estoril , has agreed a one-year contract with a two-year option to partner Prost , who has won the world championship three times . |
| 9 | In a recent ACCOUNTANCY survey of the financial directors of The Times Top 100 Companies , over 70% of the respondents were found to be trading electronically . |
| 10 | In a recent rape case in England , the victim described , under hypnosis , a scarf that the attacker had worn wrapped around his face . |
| 11 | A telling statistic in a recent election study by Rose and McAllister is that , whereas in 196480 per cent of those who came from homes in which both parents were Labour voters themselves voted for the party , by 1983 the proportion from such backgrounds which still voted Labour had dropped to 45 Per cent . |
| 12 | This comment in a recent ILO/UNCTC study of EPZs in the Caribbean is very typical : ‘ In spite of the small number of jobs generated so far , the rate at which EPZs create employment is , however , so high that they rank as the most dynamic agents for job creation compared with other sources of national employment ’ ( Long , 1986 , p.60 ) . |
| 13 | In a recent consultation exercise with council members , they suggested franchise and sponsorship as possible moneyspinners . |
| 14 | In a recent analysis building upon psycholinguistic studies , A. Berlin has argued persuasively that pairing of words is a manifestation of a common linguistic phenomenon of word association.a Two principal types of word associates can be denominated paradigmatic ( e.g. good-bad , father-mother , descend ascend ) and syntagmatic ( Zion Jerusalem , mercy-truth , heavens-earth ( as a merismus ) ) . |
| 15 | Railways , Spearman went on , had the power to break local strikes , as they had done in a recent coal strike in the United States , and the operating officers and freight-yard superintendents took on a military-style power . |
| 16 | THE West Country , together with East Anglia , came out top in a recent satisfaction survey by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts . |
| 17 | When building tanks , especially of large proportions , a more professional approach is required as outlined in a recent PFK project on tank building by Audrey Reid . |
| 18 | In a recent insolvency case before the Court of First Instance , it was claimed by an applicant that disclosing an agreement to a national authority would irreparably damage that party 's relations with its own national government . |
| 19 | Alvin Stardust — boldly cast as the Marquess of Queensberry in a recent stage version of the life of Oscar Wilde — left many critics unconvinced . |
| 20 | In a recent television programme on the subject of war photography ( presented somewhat predictably by William Shawcross — the Vietnam industry may cast its net wide but it has its favourite media starts and Shawcross is one of them ) . |