Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Marston Magna lies in a flat lias clay area of south Somerset , and its name suggests marshy surroundings . |
| 2 | On Sept. 25 three gendarmes were arrested after 10 detainees had suffocated in an airless police cell the previous week . |
| 3 | People living in a nearby travellers camp were woken by the crash , they describe the scene as something from a nightmare . |
| 4 | Afterwards he told reporters that the proposals would probably be incorporated in an industrial relations Bill which could be published either late this year or early next year . |
| 5 | THREE men were hurt yesterday when a keg of firework powder exploded in a special effects workshop at Pinewood Film Studios , Bucks . |
| 6 | The system harnesses the power of up to 48 Transputers — either T805s or the new T9000s — housed in a single 19″ chassis . |
| 7 | On Nov. 4 hearings began in a federal appeals court in Honolulu on the constitutionality of a Guam territorial law of 1990 , permitting abortion only when a pregnancy threatened to kill the woman or " gravely impair " her health . |
| 8 | The first is that the increases have caused an unprecedented imbalance in the international monetary system , resulting in an immense payments surplus for oil producers and an ensuing loss of world liquidity . |
| 9 | SIX test-playing countries will compete in a limited overs tournament to mark the diamond jubilee of India 's Cricket Association of Bengal . |
| 10 | Henry lived in a small mews flat , just off Fitzroy Square . |
| 11 | Sit in a full splits position and lower the body gently to the floor in front . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the time it takes for military expenditure to result in an operational arms system can be anything between ten or twenty years . |
| 13 | As emphasised in an Equal Opportunities Commission report , just because people are doing a good job which they may have chosen to do , does not mean they should be ignored and left to cope alone : |
| 14 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
| 15 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 16 | A former member of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , Sgt. Felix Ndimene , said that he had served in a special forces unit which had carried out the massacre in September 1990 of 26 passengers in a Johannesburg-Soweto train [ see p. 37698 ] , an incident which had provoked weeks of violence in the Johannesburg region between ANC and Inkatha supporters . |
| 17 | In order to facilitate a quick arrest under difficult circumstances — ‘ the crowd was jeering and becoming unpleasantly restive ’ — Robert Mark then confesses that he indulged in a little police brutality , by using his strictly non-regulation rubber truncheon to give the offender ‘ a hefty whack on the shin' which apparently broke his leg . |
| 18 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 19 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 20 | 3.24 A case in which aggravated damages were awarded in a personal injuries claim was Westwood v Hardy ( 1964 ) The Times , 24 June . |
| 21 | Relations with the USA which had generally been amicable under the Bhutto government , underwent a serious crisis in October 1990 following the suspension of aid worth around US$570 million on grounds that Pakistan was engaged in a nuclear weapons programme [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 22 | According to the administration 's critics , the licences , issued during 1990 and 1991 , might have violated the terms of the Pressler Amendment , under which all military assistance to Pakistan was suspended in October 1990 on the grounds that Pakistan was engaged in a nuclear weapons programme [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 23 | The key comparison here involves the areas of sympatry , which allows us to catch a glimpse of the dynamics of evolution and to test the view that cuckoos and hosts are engaged in a coevolutionary arms race , with cuckoos being one step ahead in areas of recent sympatry . |
| 24 | I 've got to take in a promotional drinks party first , and as the Press will be there they 'll focus on you like the leeches they are because you 'll be a new face . ’ |
| 25 | At Lien College school leavers were participating in a rural skills course which included carpentry , forestry , metal work , building skills and fish farming as well as agriculture . |
| 26 | Some twenty years ago , as a very young and inexperienced social worker , I and some colleagues working in a social services team decided that we would run a bereavement group . |
| 27 | For instance , my sister comma who works in a green grocers comma said she saw her with Kim last night . |
| 28 | Britain 's best known anti-virus software comes from S&S International in the shape of Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit , which has now been launched in a new Windows version . |
| 29 | Designed by student Jonathan Hitchen , the cover was described in a graphic arts magazine as : ‘ Combining strong colour and semi-abstract line . ’ |