Example sentences of "in a [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Combine a visit to the theatre with a stay in a former shooting lodge surrounded by stunning countryside . |
| 32 | Here they established themselves in a former clan stronghold , the island castle of Eilean Donan , at the point where Loch Alsh divided into Loch Long and Loch Duich , the latter giving access , via Glen Shiel , Glen Moriston and Loch Ness , to the route to Inverness . |
| 33 | The museum is housed in a former manor house , parts of which date from the 15th century including a Great Hall and an oakpanelled room . |
| 34 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 35 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 36 | Although there is no specific luggage compartment , bags go in a former radio stowage on its humped back , while the nose area ( which now houses a 45- pound lead ballast weight replacing the guns ) could be modified to take an overnight bag if needed . |
| 37 | Germany 's World Cup maestro believes that in a former life he popped up as a plant — or an animal . |
| 38 | Ask anyone who 's lived in a former British colony — English culture has been imposed on and been absorbed by countries on every continent on this earth . |
| 39 | Situated in a former ex-Great Western Railway coach , No.1160 liveried in chocolate and cream at platform one , the exhibition boasts a staggering 200 visitors per day during the operating season of the SVR . |
| 40 | But roots will out and this month she makes a triumphal re-entry to SoHo in a former high-ceilinged , window-fronted exercise studio directly across from the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street . |
| 41 | Toubon and his wife live in a former atelier used by Fernand Leger in the 6th arrondissement in Montparnasse and are friendly with a number of leading Paris contemporary art dealers . |
| 42 | But in a former gunnery hall on the extreme southerly edge of South End camp , Friends of the SAAF Museum have established a foothold which looks set to prosper . |
| 43 | Speaking of cozy , Open Vision 's senior vice president of technology , Asa Lanum , in a former life was instrumental in X/Open 's founding . |
| 44 | When the Kenyan government called in a former Scotland Yard detective to clear up the murder of the foreign minister in 1990 , he fingered the former energy minister and confidant of the president . |
| 45 | ARTS centre staff are celebrating after hearing they will receive a £40,000 boost to improve facilities at their home in a former church . |
| 46 | Andrea Paszti and Hans-Werner Bott ( marriage as well as business partners ) set up the gallery in 1988 in a former bookstore . |
| 47 | In the Bellsdyke unit , the last four years have seen a successful and busy day hospital open in a former town centre house , a community health centre ( providing continuing care as well as acute and day hospital ) , warden supervised flats , supported housing projects and addiction outreach teams established . |
| 48 | But perhaps the most valuable work achieved by CNES in the 1960s lay in co-ordinating the development of the French space industry : in 1964 the decision was taken to build a launch site at Kourou in French Guyana ; in November 1965 the Diamant A rocket was successfully launched from an Algerian site — the swansong of a military programme based in a former French territory . |
| 49 | At the corner of Fore Street and St Marychurch is a Bygones replica of a Victorian street , ‘ now with authentic smells ’ , in a former cinema , open every day and complete with militaria and railway collections , coffee and souvenir shops . |
| 50 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
| 51 | Housed in a former granary and cowshed , the displays show 19th and early 20th century material from the homes , farms , offices and craftsmen 's workshops of North Oxfordshire . |
| 52 | Howson started production in a former collar factory off the Old Kent Road with a workforce of five disabled men . |
| 53 | Before she set off the following morning , she 'd visited the Maison du Vin , which was housed in a former medieval monastery . |
| 54 | Over 800 Libyans who sailed for Naples in a former cruise liner to mark the 78th anniversary on Oct. 26 of the invasion of Libya by Italy in 1911 , were not allowed to disembark ; however , a group of some 250 Libyans visited the Italian island of Ustica for a commemorative ceremony . |
| 55 | The executive committee of the Liberal International met in Warsaw on Nov. 30-Dec.1 for its first gathering in a former communist country . |
| 56 | Similarly the court in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis took note of the duration of a restrictive covenant in a former employee 's contract of employment in determining how long it would restrain the defendant from using an index of customers removed from his former employers . |
| 57 | The two and a half million pound building is in stark contrast to the old skin hospital which was based in a former Tuberculosis ward and a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 58 | BRITISH expertise and working practices will help modernise the banking system in a former Soviet republic following a fact-finding mission to Liverpool by two Ukrainians . |
| 59 | Building society puts its trust in a former banker |
| 60 | Newcastle-based consulting engineers Merz and McLellan have helped the Bradford Industrial Museum , housed in a former wool mill , install a tramway along a re-created 19th century street . |