Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , however , gives rise to two legends : firstly that it was paid for by Napoleon in gold louis to Mr Veitch , who later buried the coins under the foundation stone of the English church ; and secondly that the wine was never drunk by Napoleon but returned to Madeira after his death to be bottled in 1840 by Blandy 's . |
| 2 | The vagina ( in Latin , a sheath or scabbard ) is about four inches long and lies between the urethra and bladder in front and the rectum behind . |
| 3 | Can strong habituall custome Work with such Magick on the mind , and manners In spight of sex and nature ? ( ii.ii. 140 — 2 ) |
| 4 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 5 | The boss of Massingham 's had superb manners in company , Leith had to give him that , for as they reached his table he rose to his feet . |
| 6 | Then , his manners in company nothing if not impeccable , Ven switched to English and introduced Lubor Ondrus . |
| 7 | Robert had read the chapter on lavatories in Morals and Manners in Islam by Dr Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi of the University of Yarmouk . |
| 8 | Morals and Manners in Islam was the only book on the subject he had been able to find in Wimbledon public Library . |
| 9 | But , then , his entire stock of knowledge about Islam was derived from Morals and Manners in Islam by Dr Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |
| 10 | There are several reasons for this ‘ regression towards the mean ’ ; it could be based on a genetic process , or it could be because a father ( mother ) who is above the mean in ability marries on average someone who is less able than he ( she ) , and so the child , reflecting the ability of both parents , is less able than the father ( mother ) . |
| 11 | The Wallabies , whose arrival at Twickenham sparked a 55,000 sell-out three months ago , face one of the most exciting Baa-Baas line-ups in history . |
| 12 | Nothing illustrates more dramatically the extent to which Nizan 's work fired the imagination than the spectacle of Sartre himself publicly criticising traditional " institutionalised " intellectuals for their lack of imagination , publicly insulting Raymond Aron for his failure to take note of the significance of the May events , and extolling by implication Nizan the youthful iconoclast , an exemplary dissident intellectual in tune with the spirit of the times . |
| 13 | To understand Nizan it is necessary , finally and perhaps most importantly , to recognise the fact that Nizan was an intellectual in search of moral integrity . |
| 14 | [ Mark Levene , ‘ Anglo-Jewish Foreign Policy in Crisis — Lucien Wolf , the Conjoint Committee and the War , 1914–18 ’ , Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England , vol. xxx , 1987–8 ; Chimen Abramsky , ‘ Lucien Wolf 's Efforts for the Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe ’ , ibid. , vol. xxix , 1982–6 ; Josef Fraenkel , ‘ Lucien Wolf and Theodor Herzl ’ , ibid. , vol. xx , 1959–61 ; Max Beloff , ‘ Lucien Wolf and the Anglo-Russian Entente 1907–1914 ’ in The Intellectual in Politics and the Other Essays , 1970 . ] |
| 15 | The Russians cheered and joined the hussars in pursuit . |
| 16 | Rock garden , dwarf bedding schemes , & clumps in front of border . |
| 17 | Rock garden , containers & clumps in front of border . |
| 18 | One does n't miss the odd stem in a large clump , and you can also divide old clumps in spring or autumn , planting the surplus into rows in the vegetable garden or allotment purely to cut for the house . |
| 19 | When they were installed to start working on 24 October 1931 , the Company 's nine bogie cars and one or two Milnes four wheelers were then taken into store at the L.U.T 's Fulwell Depôt , never to turn a wheel in service again . |
| 20 | The plane had dipped wildly down on its left wing and skidded on the runway with only one wheel in contact with the ground . |
| 21 | Once the channel has been selected ( with or without bass shift ) using the requisite button , a patch can be selected and adjustments made using the Data wheel in conjunction with the volume , gain and EQ buttons . |
| 22 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 23 | The most obvious of these building elements are plates arranged radially , looking like the spokes of a bicycle wheel in section ( septa ) . |
| 24 | Winner of the contest in the colour section was Manx photographer John Hall L.P.R.S. His long lens shot of a M.E.R. tram travelling through Laxey required much patience to correctly frame the tram whilst also keeping Laxey Wheel in focus . |
| 25 | The first wheel in use was the Great or Walking Wheel , which required space for the spinner to walk to and fro . |
| 26 | So cyclist 's son to become big wheel in football ? |
| 27 | These regions could include two α -helixes , one of which would be amphipathic ( helical wheel in Fig. 1 e ) . |
| 28 | There you will see thousands of cars speeding by , each with the driver alone , his head thrown back as he yells the words aloud , her fist slapping the wheel in time to the beat , thousands of silent screams haring up the M1 to get to that meeting on schedule . |
| 29 | Startled , she looked up at him , met his eyes , and saw in them a searching expression that made her heart jerk in astonishment . |
| 30 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |