Example sentences of "[noun] in a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " For a man who can catch a gibbon in a Ming vase it will be child 's play . " |
| 2 | In the same sale the top price of £11,700 was given for a twelve-piece Ring 's Pattern set of table cutlery in an oak canteen which was made in Sheffield in 1931 and £950 for a George IV coffee pot of panelled baluster form decorated with acanthus leaf motifs made in London in 1825 , probably by Joseph Angell . |
| 3 | Sir Roger was responding to concern expressed by BA president John Hitchin of Phoenix Bookshops that books were now available to the public at differing prices , leading to confusion in a book market which research recently commissioned by the BA had shown to be ‘ one homogeneous whole ’ . |
| 4 | Suppose that we are classifying things according to parameters in a set A which contains the functions form-of-fur length-of-feathers |
| 5 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |
| 6 | Muffled in furs , Franklin D. Hauser left the complex in a snow buggy which drove him to a helipad a kilometre away . |
| 7 | DRACULA star Sadie Frost , 25 , was lost for words in a love scene she was supposed to punctuate with moans . |
| 8 | Initially , an entry in a reading lexicon which matches the sequence of letters that one has detected is located . |
| 9 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 10 | The second study is being set up by the EPA in a Georgia town which was one of a large number that volunteered to be followed while it switched to a pay-to-throw scheme . |
| 11 | With a companion in a BN Islander and Spencer in an Aero Commander they set off for Botswana . |
| 12 | By the time you have had two or three months in a language area you should start to collect texts , a few at a time , unless the local people are very suspicious of tape recorders or there is some other inhibiting cultural factor . |
| 13 | Clearance and redevelopment took their toll in a planning system which decreed that the densities deemed acceptable by the Victorian house builders were not appropriate for the late twentieth century . |
| 14 | Permissions granted by either the Use Classes Order or the GDO can also be removed by a specific condition in a planning permission which will override the provisions of the relevant Order . |
| 15 | ‘ For a relatively modest investment at a very acceptable price we have obtained an important strategic stake in a core business which has considerable growth potential . ’ |
| 16 | Ungar placed rats in a start box which opened onto a lighted arena with a dark compartment in one corner , and shocked the animals electrically when they attempted to enter the dark compartment ; this punishment rapidly resulted in the animals refusing to enter the dark box . |
| 17 | A French lady in an adjoining room who understood some English had become greatly alarmed and taken it upon herself to summon the police . |
| 18 | People came and went , but almost nobody stayed to eat ; Lucy had the dining area beside the counter more or less to herself , apart from a business type in an Aquascutum raincoat who sat two tables away reading a caravan magazine . |
| 19 | Q When I am looking at the ingredients in a hair product what should I be looking for to identify it as a quality product ? |
| 20 | Once during rectification of a fault his team located the problem as being due to broken wires in a cable loom which ran through the communications tunnel . |
| 21 | Smoking takes place in a smoke house which is linked by a pipe to a firebox . |
| 22 | Thus Jowell has commented that ‘ the major omission of the report is its failure to see development control 's place in a planning system whose scope has expanded radically since 1968 … somehow development control has not kept pace with this change ’ . |
| 23 | He is expected to spend up to 10 days in a £215-a-night suite which includes a single room equipped with private bath , shower , toilet , telephone and colour television . |
| 24 | In the plan , British Telecom would install videodisc players at the point in a cable system which links up subscribers TV sets . |
| 25 | At any point in a marketing exercise there can be PR activity , for the simple reason that PR is concerned with human relations and is a two-way process . |
| 26 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 27 | She knew nothing of financial matters and had acted quite reasonably in placing her trust and confidence in a motor trader who had a good reputation in the area . |
| 28 | But in 1987 , even this flagship station suffered a major breakdown in a turbine generator which put one of its twin reactors out of action for over six months . |
| 29 | The second bankruptcy proceedings brought against him , in I906 , were instituted by a man named Scott , claimed by Wilson to be a Shipping Federation official , He was again saved by his parliamentary friends and trade union allies in an indemnity committee which found that the debts which were alleged were in no way personal . |
| 30 | Groups will get a chance to perform in front of the rest of the festival participants in an evening programme which has been given an extra fillip with the inclusion of professionals of the stature of Siobhan Davies Dance Company as well as Dundee Rep Dance Company . |