Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demand for action comes in a week when John Bond has been advised to stay away from his former club , Burnley , for Shrewsbury 's FA Cup tie this afternoon because of fears of reprisals from angry Turf Moor fans . |
| 2 | Many people who call for benefit increases in a discussion on whether or not to operate a minimum wage , mysteriously lose their voice in debates to enhance welfare payments ( Sam Brittan and Joe Rogaly , both from the Financial Times stable , are honourable exceptions to this rule ) . |
| 3 | Or are we to insist that assurance of faith exists in a believer even when he is sure that such assurance does not exist ? |
| 4 | Two children die , as number of cases triples in a week Hospitals on brink of ‘ red alert ’ for flu . |
| 5 | The Chelsea Flower Show is probably not the most obvious place to pick up a bargain — lead lions rampant and Medici urns atop Corinthian columns must cost more than the Governor of the Bank of England earns in a week to transport there , let alone purchase . |
| 6 | This seems a useful technique for any situation where a straight piece of wood ends in a curve , since it maintains the visual integrity of the piece and is considerably easier than laminating a number of separate strips ( which I always find slide out of line while being clamped ) . |
| 7 | To find out what sort of bottom exists in a swim just stick on a heavy leger and drag it back towards you . |
| 8 | The resemblance of Fig. 21.10 to a portion of a vortex street ( Section 17.8 ) strongly indicates that this type of process occurs in a wake ( though there is the difference that the turbulent eddies are of limited extent in the third direction ) . |
| 9 | It is important to remember that the absence of impurity bands in a spectrum does not mean that the sample studied was pure . |
| 10 | Attached to the pipe of the gas boiler by a brass chain was a box of safety matches in a brass holder , similar to the one chained to the candlestand ; hinged at the top to allow the insertion of a fresh box . |
| 11 | In animal models the presence of carcinogen DNA adducts has been shown to lead to specific mutations within DNA including the activation of known oncogenes and the persistence of DNA adducts in a tissue may be correlated with an increased risk of developing cancer in that tissue . |
| 12 | SCHOOLS can not be run like assembly lines , the National Union of Teachers says in a booklet being sent tobusiness executives to ask their help in opposing any move to pay teachers according to classroom performance . |
| 13 | Easily Accessible : The village of Rockbourne nestles in a hollow in the Downs on the edge of the New Forest and boasts a 13th-century church and a Roman villa . |
| 14 | Long means a bank is purchasing and accumulating deposits in a currency whereas short implies a run-down of deposit balances in a currency ( possibly even a loan situation existing in a nostro account with a correspondent bank ) . |
| 15 | The problem of accessibility arises in a number of different ways , but primarily in the general difficulty that the private citizen has in undertaking litigation without representation , even though this is the intention behind the procedure . |
| 16 | A mountain of melons evaporates in a wink . |
| 17 | If it is possible to generalize from this at all , it is that presence of predator remains in a fossil assemblage gives no indication of method of origin of the assemblage , even if it can be shown to be accumulated by a predator . |
| 18 | He argued the future for transport lies in a marriage of private and public money . |
| 19 | Mark can not understand what somebody like Babur sees in a depressive like him . |
| 20 | Attractive dolls with fabric faces in a variety of clothes are from £9 to £14 , with Santa Claus at £14 . |
| 21 | And — most elegant of all — a set of three Swedish-designed chrome candleholders with brass trims in a gift box with a matching lighter , £46 . |
| 22 | The results suggest that M paratuberculosis isolated from man exists in a form which hardly replicates if at all when cultured in MG3 medium in vitro , and are consistent with the involvement of this known animal enteric pathogen in a proportion of chronic enteritis in man . |
| 23 | However , the fundamental reason for rejecting the weapons in Britain or elsewhere in Europe lies in a flaw at the heart of NATO 's deterrent strategy . |
| 24 | ( Molten nylon held under pressure in an atmosphere of steam in fact depolymerizes in a reversal of this condensation reaction . ) |
| 25 | The term , long term strategy in fact appears in a number of instances erm throughout those pages . |
| 26 | Thirdly , the reward to the lender for holding a bill to redemption comes in a form which resembles a capital gain rather than a conventional rate of interest . |
| 27 | Another important aid to analysing syntactic variation is the production of a concordance ; in addition to a reference location to word forms in a text which have been previously input , a concordance gives a certain amount of surrounding context . |
| 28 | Specially designed for women , the Ladyshave range of electric shavers by Philips comes in a choice of shades and includes a battery model , a mains model , a mains/rechargeable model and a wet/dry rechargeable . |