Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 8 October : The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh left Heathrow Airport , London this afternoon in a British Airways Tristar for Singapore and Malaysia . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Social work in a social services setting |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was sentenced to six months in a young offenders ' institute . |
| 6 | You should enquire what the rules are and additionally , to give you a better idea of what size pension you might realistically expect , you could ask for some practical examples — say , over the last five years — of retired individuals in a similar earnings bracket to your own . |
| 7 | She loves gym workouts , swimming and playing netball — she is a leading light in a local women 's team . |
| 8 | Her imagination went wild ; she pictured Barney seated in a hard chair in a dingy police interview room while the detective probed and bullied and cajoled , plucking away at the outer layers of his mind , stripping it down to its sensitive core , implacable in his search for signs of weakness or guilt . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years . |
| 11 | Judge Angus Macdonald sentenced Diaz to 18 months in a young offenders institution and Walker to 12 months . |
| 12 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Johnson was the shining star in an excellent Whitecaps side which included former English internationalists Alan Ball and Jon Sammels. his performances put an estimated 6,000 on the team 's home gate ; within a season Johnson had led them to the Soccer Bowl final against Tampa Bay Rowdies . |
| 15 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 16 | Reynolds was sentenced to 3 years in a young offenders institution and disqualified from driving for 2 years . |
| 17 | Thompson was sentenced to 27 months in a young offenders ' institute , and Livingstone was fined £150 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 22 | A crackdown on speeding and aggressive driving will be the first step in a one-year-long police campaign to cut the number of deaths and accidents on motorways . |
| 23 | Living in the house , Farrel soon discovered , was like being a very junior NCO in a senior officers ' mess . |
| 24 | This would correspond to a named award in a combined studies degree or a tripos award in the Oxbridge sense . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I had already established my own gallery in an old ironmongers in Porthmadog , after realising that there was a market for prints of original paintings . |
| 27 | So far , he 's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution . |
| 28 | Demi Moore has out-styled Julia Roberts , Mariah Carey and Cher by becoming Hollywood 's best tressed star in a recent hairdressers ' poll . |
| 29 | France still wanted EURATOM more than she wanted a common market , and in September 1956 caused a new crisis in the negotiations , with various demands to ease her own position in a six-power customs union . |
| 30 | An Oxford student has been sentenced to four months in a young offendors institute for supplying drugs . |