Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are confirmed in this belief by a passage contained in a Judicial Studies Board paper issued to Circuit Judges and Recorders in June 1991 where the Honourable Mr Justice Wright stated : It is impossible to over-rate the contribution made by Kemp & Kemp : The Quantum of Damages to this branch of the law and every Judge who has to deal with personal injury litigation will undoubtedly have to have access to it . |
| 2 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 3 | From where he stood , Nuadu saw the slender , copper-haired Beech Naiad emerge from the murdered tree , her arms chopped to ribbons , her body maimed in a dozen places , the red-gold blood of the beech spurting from her . |
| 4 | An exceptional first floor flat in a small modern block situated in a quiet mews behind Claridges in the heart of Mayfair . |
| 5 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 6 | The media are aware of this fact , and photographs of Hannah side by side with Her Ladyship featured in a hundred newspapers and more |
| 7 | The curtains bowed in a few yards away , almost touching the window-sill , the movement like a wave . |
| 8 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 9 | A miser 's body lies cut in a thousand places by a huge array of coins with sharpened edges . |
| 10 | All additions concentrated in a few areas This can occur when , for example , recruitment campaigns for customers have taken place in a limited area , or a competitor has gone out of business . |
| 11 | Cases of equal numbers of additions to each area and all additions concentrated in a few areas are depicted schematically in Fig. 7.9 . |
| 12 | Between 1974 and 1979 I had become concerned with the number of investigations conducted in a few States where , despite representations from properly appointed accredited representatives , the findings in the final reports were clearly less than satisfactory . |
| 13 | Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled . |
| 14 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |