Example sentences of "[noun] in a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |
| 2 | Such individuals may wait many weeks on remand in a prison hospital wing , sometimes even in a cell in a local police station , before they are assessed by the local service . |
| 3 | Both of the Deanses have been charged with fraud in a continuing police investigation into the affairs of the club . |
| 4 | She answered an advert in a lonely hearts column and started an affair with this man who had stated in the ad that he was a good looking 43-year-old bachelor , comfortably off , with car . |
| 5 | McHugh , who is now also serving nine months in a young offenders centre for motoring offences , was sentenced to three months in jail on the Customs offences . |
| 6 | Judge Angus Macdonald sentenced Diaz to 18 months in a young offenders institution and Walker to 12 months . |
| 7 | An Oxford student has been sentenced to four months in a young offendors institute for supplying drugs . |
| 8 | Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers . |
| 9 | He listens to early 70 's progressive rock , not contemporary rap music — and he wears a denim shirt with a tie — the clothes of a 35 year old trying to get a job in a suburban jeans boutique . |
| 10 | So far , he 's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution . |
| 11 | According to a Which ? report , 40 per cent of menus in NHS hospitals claiming to have a healthy food policy failed to reach an acceptable score in a nutritional values survey . |
| 12 | Last year she decided to turn her hobby into full-time employment by opening a shop in a rural crafts centre . |
| 13 | Davies , a former RAF driver , was sentenced to two years in prison while Crook will spend two years in a young offenders institute . |
| 14 | He sentenced both to four years in a young offenders centre for hijacking and to six months for criminal damage . |
| 15 | Reynolds was sentenced to 3 years in a young offenders institution and disqualified from driving for 2 years . |
| 16 | Over two hundred people from Garland Road and Felcourt formed themselves into teams of ten to pit their wits against each other in a trivial pursuits type quiz night . |
| 17 | The alarm was raised shortly afterwards by a milkman and officers in a passing police car who spotted the smoke and flames . |
| 18 | It may also , for instance , include a statement by a minister on the effect of a provision in a private Members Bill . |
| 19 | This would correspond to a named award in a combined studies degree or a tripos award in the Oxbridge sense . |
| 20 | 8 October : The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh left Heathrow Airport , London this afternoon in a British Airways Tristar for Singapore and Malaysia . |
| 21 | Some of the views of this teacher were echoed by an Asian pupil in a Social Studies lesson , where the class was looking at the issue of ‘ prejudices in society ’ . |
| 22 | Charlie ignored me , as he was ignoring most of his friends since he 'd appeared on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times with his band , Must n't Grumble , after an open-air gig in a local sports ground . |
| 23 | The charges related to the administration 's attempt to conceal the US role in a secret arms-for-hostages shipment by Israel to Iran in 1985 , an issue which had led to the filing of charges against former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger , in June 1992 [ see p. 38955 ] . |
| 24 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 25 | Three managers of the German firm Imhausen-Chemie were sentenced by a Mannheim court on Oct. 9 to suspended prison terms ranging from 10 to 16 months for contravention of foreign trade laws in exporting materials to Libya between 1984 and 1988 for use in a chemical weapons factory at Rabta , south of Tripoli . |
| 26 | Initially this could be a minor subject in a combined studies degree ( Computer Science and EP or Library Science and EP ) but this is likely to be only a short step before the full degree course materializes . |
| 27 | Something for children when POSTMAN PAT travels to Leeds with his friends in a new childrens story entitled POSTMAN PAT 'S SPECIAL DELIVERY . |
| 28 | Meanwhile a pair of kestrels has produced four young in a disused ventilation pipe in a raw materials store . |
| 29 | Quality service is what sets us aside and under-pins the company 's place among the FTSE top 100 British companies , the second best company in Europe in a Financial Times survey , the eleventh most admired company in the UK according to the Economist , and now first place in the Business Enterprise Award of the Confederation of British Industries , as Company of The Year . |
| 30 | Then your detective should have much more of the qualities that make for success in a real police officer , and much less vulnerability to comic events . |