Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marston Magna lies in a flat lias clay area of south Somerset , and its name suggests marshy surroundings . |
| 2 | It was strongly hinted that " a dividend is expected in a few weeks time " which is equivalent to " a discount on the purchase price . " |
| 3 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 4 | On Sept. 25 three gendarmes were arrested after 10 detainees had suffocated in an airless police cell the previous week . |
| 5 | People living in a nearby travellers camp were woken by the crash , they describe the scene as something from a nightmare . |
| 6 | Curbishley already had the English schools time , thanks to a 44.3 secs run in her first track outing at Hull this season , before she was injured in a 400 metres hurdles race at York . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | THREE men were hurt yesterday when a keg of firework powder exploded in a special effects workshop at Pinewood Film Studios , Bucks . |
| 9 | The system harnesses the power of up to 48 Transputers — either T805s or the new T9000s — housed in a single 19″ chassis . |
| 10 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | SIX test-playing countries will compete in a limited overs tournament to mark the diamond jubilee of India 's Cricket Association of Bengal . |
| 14 | Henry lived in a small mews flat , just off Fitzroy Square . |
| 15 | NEWTOWN survived Saturday 's storm to collect more Furrows League points in a seven wickets home win over Acton Reynold . |
| 16 | Sit in a full splits position and lower the body gently to the floor in front . |
| 17 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 18 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the time it takes for military expenditure to result in an operational arms system can be anything between ten or twenty years . |
| 20 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 21 | The survey was based on an assessment of litter and dog fouling in a 500 metres circle round the parliament building . |
| 22 | And the first deadline for applications for B T three shares expires in a few hours time . |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | and in one of the rooms he used to have these girlie pin-ups of the dame , these portraits of all these women he used to fancy in a few years time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |