Example sentences of "[noun] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A down-stuffed duvet in a printed-cotton cover lay over them . |
| 2 | She says , ‘ I 'll bring your duvet in a minute , ’ and she slips into her bedroom and shuts the door . |
| 3 | In the midst of doing both the Round The Horne radio series and a couple of ‘ Carry Ons ’ , Ken was cast as Napoleon in a BBC TV version of the Anouilh play French Cricket , with Robert Helpmann playing Fouche , the Chief of Police . |
| 4 | In her acceptance she broke the code of propriety , went beyond the established manners in a light encounter . |
| 5 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924 – 5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 6 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924 – 5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 7 | He is also the only intellectual in a town full of morons , except for Major Scott ( T. P. McKenna ) and the well-meaning vicar ( Colin Welland ) . |
| 8 | From this plinth had , a long time ago , fallen sideways a tall figure which now lay face-down in a puddle , narcissistically gazing at itself . |
| 9 | We had an altercation that soon resolved itself with me lying face-down in a damp bed of cardboard boxes at the loot of a hidden staircase . |
| 10 | The court heard that while on bail Hart , who was also banned from driving for four and a half years , was caught behind the wheel in a pub car park but refused to take breath tests . |
| 11 | There is , however , somewhat more investigation now than in the past , and occasionally the teachers may wheel in a micro or a video player to provide a degree of reinforcement of learning in a given field . |
| 12 | She drove to escape , not to arrive , like an automaton , gripping the wheel in a trance , hardly aware of her surroundings , the road , the car horns and headlights that blared and flashed around her . |
| 13 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 14 | Three freemen : Three long-serving Middlesbrough councillors have been made freemen of the borough in a special ceremony at the town hall . |
| 15 | Putting it bluntly , many Protestants fear that they will be unable to continue to practise and promote their religion in a united Ireland . |
| 16 | Christianity is then a historical religion in a way in which religion need not necessarily be historical . |
| 17 | The fact that such a statue could be produced , and was apparently meaningful to women , shows something of women 's yearning in their religion in a culture which is now deeply conscious of feminist issues . |
| 18 | Christian 's a fine man , but I can only take so much religion in a week . |
| 19 | But they would still insist that induction into a tradition is right — it should be teaching religion not just teaching about religion in a way which distances it and effectively marginalizes it . |
| 20 | It raged well before Israel acquired Judaea , Samaria , Gaza and the Golan in a defensive war . " |
| 21 | But close identification with reform carries risks in a profession vulnerable to political change . |
| 22 | Further , the original theory of nationalization put forward by the Attlee Government after 1945 stressed that corporations should be free to take commercial risks in a way that would be inappropriate for government departments . |
| 23 | if the risks in a case substantially increase for the plaintiff , especially as in this case where the defendant was given leave inter alia to amend their defence , there should be no extension of time to a plaintiff to accept a payment into court . |
| 24 | As we pointed out in Chapter 14 , profits are the carrot that encourages firms to take risks in a market economy . |
| 25 | It has been argued that an appropriate definition of central in this context would be information related to risks and potential risks in a situation . |
| 26 | A secondary purpose of the study was to explore the possibility that the act of describing a film or specifically describing potential risks in a situation will alter drivers ’ subsequent assessments of risk . |
| 27 | Neither side is likely to take any unnecessary risks in a key game for both teams , so a draw is likely . |
| 28 | However , there was also a considerable consensus from the non-arts staff of LEAs and colleges that arts teachers were not helping the advancement of the case for the arts in a number of ways . |
| 29 | The colonial education system remained virtually intact after nominal independence in 1960 : two-thirds of university students studied law or the liberal arts in a country where peasants make up 90 per cent of the population and agriculture is the mainstay of the economy . |
| 30 | We 're using the arts to integrate Disabled people and , hopefully , at the end of it , we 'll be able to put Disability arts in a little glass case and say ‘ there it is , we do n't need it anymore ’ , because we 're completely integrated into the community ’ . |