Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Three freemen : Three long-serving Middlesbrough councillors have been made freemen of the borough in a special ceremony at the town hall . |
| 11 | Putting it bluntly , many Protestants fear that they will be unable to continue to practise and promote their religion in a united Ireland . |
| 12 | Christianity is then a historical religion in a way in which religion need not necessarily be historical . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Christian 's a fine man , but I can only take so much religion in a week . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It raged well before Israel acquired Judaea , Samaria , Gaza and the Golan in a defensive war . " |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher 's transformation may have more to do with her political circumstances — i.e , isolation in a predominantly pro-European Cabinet — than with television . |
| 18 | ( A chair at the other end of the room or isolation in a safe , unstimulating ( unfrightening ) room elsewhere in the house are your other options ; It is preferable not to use your child 's bedroom , since you do n't wish to associate it with punishment . ) |
| 19 | From their point of view living in physical isolation in a rural district is by no means a problem , not only because of the high level of local car ownership , but because they , unlike the planners , do not confuse the idea of social cohesion with the notion of geographical proximity . |
| 20 | Although a great many Corydoras species will spawn in situ , the chances of hatching and raising fry are always enhanced if the breeding pair are spawned in isolation in a specially-established aquarium . |
| 21 | But it is worthwhile to reiterate that , in a sense , every book published about recent history is of value as a source and the conventional ‘ official ’ documentation does not necessarily occupy in recent history the commanding place which its comparative isolation in a sea of illiteracy gives it in earlier epochs . |
| 22 | The culminating step in this reduction is the interaction of two specific microdissected neurons which can be induced to make synaptic contact whilst preserved in isolation in a dish . |
| 23 | An Agatha Christie novel and Kafka 's The Trial ( isolation in a dehumanized world — great ) . |
| 24 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 25 | In particular , the question of whether the largest groups , known as keiretsu , are merely pre-war zaibatsu in a different guise . |
| 26 | I thought this was quite early in the case for an aggravation , so I had him take a dose every other day after diluting the remedy in a second glass of water . |
| 27 | You should reassess the case and choose another remedy , though it may first be worth trying a dose of the same remedy in a higher potency if you have it . |
| 28 | that he thinks that erm of all of these forced motivations class interest is the most damaging and he argues there 's a remedy for this , we 'll see why it 's a remedy in a minute , that certain people ought to be given more than one vote so that although everyone should have some votes , not everyone should have the same number of votes . |
| 29 | Hence the logic of discussing the two places as part of a ‘ city ’ , even if the effect of planning policies and spatial reorganization in a more general sense has been to complicate the definition of just what constitutes the ‘ city ’ of Tyneside . |
| 30 | Letting go is more difficult when children have become comforting substitutes for disappointment in a marriage . |