Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ The council did award the contract but there is no evidence to support NCP 's claim that the council should put right the defect , ’ said Mr Buxton in a statement . |
| 3 | We have the additional reference in The Recluse ( see p. 109 ) and a further reading of that poem shows that the Wordsworths approached Grasmere in a mood of mystical elation verging on trance . |
| 4 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 5 | Goodman scored in the win at the Baseball Ground last season that kicked off Malcolm Crosby 's managerial reign — now his goals are needed to help keep Crosby in a job . |
| 6 | Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time . |
| 7 | Probably as the snorting monsters emerged from the Black Hole of Balcombe in a cloud of smoke and steam , a merry crowd of villagers who watched from the top of the embankment gave a wary cheer and wondered what the world was coming to ! |
| 8 | Bullies like to be Number One and the thought that someone else could be muscling in on his top-spot got Herod in a bit of a strop . |
| 9 | Oh we 're , we 're going to Sainsburys in a minute . |
| 10 | The Administrative Security Department said Jose Abello Silva , indicted in the US in 1987 on drug charges , was arrested on Tuesday in a Bogota restaurant . |
| 11 | Rangers and Aberdeen will meet at Ibrox on Tuesday in a re-arranged match . |
| 12 | A Tuesday in a month |
| 13 | She then gives Scott and his team a lift to a congress in Budapest in the early hours of Tuesday in an aircraft of the Queen 's Flight for further lobbying of her fellow International Olympic Committee members . |
| 14 | There can not be many lyric-writers who have begun their careers in the theatre by dancing Scheherazade in a strip-club in Los Angeles , gone on to appear at La Scala , Milan and then to play the title-role in Mother Company . |
| 15 | The politician 's dilemma has never been better stated than by George Dempster in a letter which he wrote to Sir Adam Fergusson in 1783 : |
| 16 | Before using a UK PPL in a ZK-registered aircraft visitors must obtain a New Zealand licence validation . |
| 17 | In an article in Figaro in 1978 Jean-Pierre Dujardin collected together the best-researched estimates of lives lost under communism : it was based on studies such as Robert Conquest 's classic analysis of Stalin 's purges The Great Terror , Professor Kuganov 's seminal study of liquidations based on a detailed demographic survey of Russia 's population between 1939 and 1959 and the detailed work done by Professor Richard Walker in a report commissioned by the U S Senate and published in 1971 . |
| 18 | One day I bumped into Patric Walker in a Fleet Street boozer and he was very helpful . |
| 19 | Swansea manager Frank Burrows adds Reuben Agboola to his squad after an injury to Keith Walker in a 0-0 draw with Plymouth this week . |
| 20 | ‘ I met Kay in a nightclub but did my courting in Woolworth 's where she worked , ’ he says . |
| 21 | ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford . |
| 22 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
| 23 | Boswell dismisses Elgin in a couple of paragraphs , partly though boredom , partly embarrassment at Johnson 's bad meal there ; but again — the invaluable gloss on Johnson 's version — ; Boswell liked the jutting arcades , which he called ‘ piazzas ’ ; he approved of ‘ such structures in a town , on account of their conveniency in wet weather ’ , and then reports Johnson 's dislike of them on account of the way in which they made ‘ the under story of a house very dark , which greatly over-balances the conveniency , when it is considered how small a part of the year it rains . |
| 24 | Where she scores is when she manages something which is different , such as the haunting ‘ Sleeping Satellite ’ , otherwise the rest of the album is so much Bryan Adams in a skirt . |
| 25 | Twelfth seed Ros Nideffer went out 4–6 6–2 10–8 to US qualifier Katrina Adams in a second round match resumed after being halted overnight at 5–5 in the final set . |
| 26 | Using computer-controlled equipment , the project will study the use of CSPs in a cross-section of the Cambridge population from both an acoustic and an articulatory point of view . |
| 27 | But the biggest cheer was reserved for old Desert Orchid , who led a parade of former champions and then trounced Grand National hero Mr Frisk in a fun run . |
| 28 | Ettore Bugatti lost his love of racing after the death of his son Jean in an accident near the family factory . |
| 29 | The new Chromatography catalogue from Rhô-Poulenc contains a unique combination of products never before offered to U.K. Chromatographers in a single brochure . |
| 30 | In April 1965 Crawford opened with Harry H. Corbett in a new comedy , Travelling Light , at the Prince of Wales Theatre , where he had enjoyed such success in Come Blow Your Horn . |