Example sentences of "[noun] in a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loves gym workouts , swimming and playing netball — she is a leading light in a local women 's team . |
| 2 | How can we allow the commercial hunting of whales when they could be starved of food because of ozone depletion in a few years ' time ? " |
| 3 | As they broke bread it spurted and dripped blood , and their mirth was the rattle in a dying man 's throat . |
| 4 | A chance mention in a letter written in the 820s shows that one card in a Carolingian king 's hand was the existence of a " solemn custom " whereby any recipient of a benefice had to come to the palace in person and ritually " commend " himself to the king . |
| 5 | ( Tea in a handless cup/Flour scones/Sour fish/Dirty Thurso ) |
| 6 | We shall be continuing our more detailed look at factory shops in a few weeks ' time . |
| 7 | This chapter contains an overview of the present state of play , and considers the basic requirements for practice in a conventional solicitors ' partnership . |
| 8 | forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 ) |
| 9 | Where he received his training is not known — an apprenticeship in a professional architect 's office away from Kendal seems likely — but as he did not attend the Royal Academy Schools it was probably elsewhere in the north rather than in London . |
| 10 | Nathan Adams , 18 , David Elsom , 17 , Jason Green , 17 , Simon Lindley , 17 , Gavin Saunders , 17 , Richard Whittaker , 18 and Nicholas Crook , 18 , were sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 11 | He was sentenced to six months in a young offenders ' institute . |
| 12 | He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years . |
| 13 | Raymond Allison , 17 , of Amberley Green , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , was sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institute when he appeared before Teesside Crown Court yesterday . |
| 14 | Thompson was sentenced to 27 months in a young offenders ' institute , and Livingstone was fined £150 . |
| 15 | Burglar sentenced : Jamie Raper , 20 , of Wharfe Way , Darlington , was yesterday sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to 12 months in a young offenders ' institution after he admitted burgling a house in Carmel Road North , Darlington . |
| 16 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 17 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 18 | Burnside was given 12 months in a young offender 's institution and Sture jailed for a year . |
| 19 | If there is one day in the week on which you visit your mother-in-law and work an evening shift , do n't be tempted to do the week 's shopping in a crowded supermarket en route . |
| 20 | The only flexibility in a local authority 's ability to raise finance will be the poll tax , which on current reckoning is intended to make up only 20 per cent of a local authority 's revenue base . |
| 21 | THERE seem to be two distinct periods in a heterosexual woman 's life when being single is acceptable . |
| 22 | Jack Mahoney gets two in the chest , and three guys bust open a safe in a downtown jeweller 's . |
| 23 | The motion called on the chamber to reconsider the issue in a few years ' time . |
| 24 | While that principle is maintained by the Act in relation to most matters concerning a child in a local authority 's care , a residence order under section 8 is expressly excepted by section 9(1) . |
| 25 | After a number of juvenile jobs he began work in a local joiner 's shop and acquired the skills of a carpenter although he was never officially apprenticed . |
| 26 | In the same way that the latter introduces , almost unconsciously , knowledge of the origin of words and the structure of a sentence , so playing on damp or drying pitches fills the gaps in a developing batsman 's technique . |
| 27 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |
| 28 | A young , unescorted girl in a grubby man 's raincoat , taking a 3/6d. seat when the last programme was half-over , upset , for them , the natural order of things . |
| 29 | If an incident takes place in a local GP 's surgery , you should complain to the local Family Practitioner Committee , whose number will be in the Yellow Pages . |
| 30 | Even the World Bank regularly despatches different missions to an individual country unaware of each others ' presence , or who may meet by accident in a permanent secretary 's outer office . |