Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And strict interpretation of the ten miles and Mr reminded me would just pinch in a little bit erm of the of the West Yorkshire greenbelt . |
| 2 | Unmarried , she lives in a former doctor 's surgery in Crook which doubles as the constituency office . |
| 3 | The British Museum 's show was originally scheduled to coincide with the publication of its new catalogue of the drawings of Rembrandt and his School , due to appear in a few year 's time . |
| 4 | Mr Nofomela is to appear in a Natal magistrate 's court to be charged with the murder of the Durban civil rights lawyer , Griffiths Mxenge . |
| 5 | I think the management thing can be addressed in a different way erm excuse me erm , oh I 've lost my thread now but , oh yeah that 's right |
| 6 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 7 | The following excerpt is written in a Mass Observationer 's shorthand , which accounts for the bumpy grammar : |
| 8 | It requires a good water starting and carve gybing ability and can only be sailed in a consistent Force 3/4+ . |
| 9 | Wings of Oracle is the first sponsored boat likely to sail in a British Admiral 's Cup team . |
| 10 | But once I think we were , we were going in a mad rush er , each saw his responsibilities for that word , and that 'll do , and then we 'd say yes , and stuck it here . |
| 11 | Andrew Tomas , researcher and author , during his stay in India was told of an ancient document preserved in an Indian Prince 's library at Ujjain and listed as Agastya Samhita , which gives directions for making electrical batteries . |
| 12 | The manual ( RRP £80 ) began life at Inter-Continental Hotels when the group 's then chief executive , John Van Praag , well aware , among other things , of the impact of the international traveller 's habit of leaving lights on and of the chemicals used in a 500-bedroom hotel 's laundry , noticed a huge variation in environmental behaviour . |
| 13 | Although school has an important part to play in a young child 's total development , the tensions of life beyond the classroom are likely to be the ones which determine educational failure or educational success . |
| 14 | She saw how Bothwell 's strings had become hopelessly entangled with those of his royal mistress ; bound in a true lover 's knot , the puppets wrestled . |
| 15 | But there are some entertaining ideas there too , like a near-irreverent sequence about David Icke phoning heaven , or Margi 's contemplation of her TV success with The Good Sex Guide … she imagines millions of babies being born in a few month 's time all called Margi . |
| 16 | ‘ Curse you ! ’ she began , but she was speaking in a harsh man 's voice . |
| 17 | Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war . |
| 18 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 19 | put it in the shop window in New York on St Patrick 's Day along with forty shades of green paperweights , the lacquered shillelaghs , and the wonderful world of deedeelee eedeelee eedeelee Irishness ; skipping dancing jolly little leprechauns in bright buckled shoes and battered hatted bow legged bright red drunken faced gombeen men with little devils in their laughing Irish eyes , mischievous gossipy white haired old women with shawls , pure white skinned colleens skipping carefree through green fields dutifully ready to return in an instant to domestic chores , strapping athletic lads with fine belts and sturdy boots ever willing to put in a fair day 's work or hit each other a clout . |
| 20 | Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals . |
| 21 | For example , an elder 's response is likely to be inhibited if the practitioner uses baffling words , or the elder is flustered in a busy doctor 's surgery . |
| 22 | These three ladies , now in their seventies , lived in a Georgian doll 's house in Lulling 's High Street . |
| 23 | The virus lives at body heat — 37°C. — and can be reared in a fertile hen 's egg . |
| 24 | This is an advantage that the cuckoo is well advised to exploit with care — clearly a young cuckoo reared in a blue tit 's nest box would never be able to escape when it was mature . |
| 25 | The amount provided in the original cash float is deducted and placed in a separate banker 's bag . |
| 26 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 27 | I should make it clear that when it is decided to intervene in a local authority 's own proposed development , the local authority is required to apply to the Secretary of State for planning permission . |
| 28 | Say goodbye by joining in an optional evening 's excursion and enjoying traditional folk dancing and singing . |
| 29 | That you still want to compete in a young man 's race , even though it might kill you ? ’ |
| 30 | The Vung Tau Cargo , snagged in a Vietnamese fisherman 's nets , looks like being a repeat of the astonishing success of the Nanking Cargo — 150,000 pieces of mid-18th-century porcelain plus 126 gold bars — salvaged by an ex-Barnardo 's boy , Michael Hatcher , and auctioned in 1986 . |