Example sentences of "[art] [noun] in a [adj] [noun pl] " 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 Between the valves a springy ligament keeps the valves in a gaping attitudes — the position used for feeding .
3 A beautiful diamond necklace which recently fetched £11,000 at Bonhams would be twice the price in an ordinary jewellers .
4 Jan Murray , the England left wing , avoids becoming the filling in a Finnish defenders ' sandwich during the UEFA Women 's Championship Group Three game at Brentford yesterday .
5 With its occupants pushed firmly back into their seats , the Turbo R thumped a hole in the air and lunged for the far horizon , covering the quarter-mile in a staggering 14.8secs on the way .
6 ‘ I bought the clothes in a secondhand clothes shop near Edgware Road Tube station , ’ he said .
7 It may also , for instance , include a statement by a minister on the effect of a provision in a private Members Bill .
8 At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business .
9 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 .
10 Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers .
11 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 .
12 The amount of related benefit received by a plaintiff in a personal injuries claim from Social Security can be recouped by DSS from the " compensator " and are fully deductible from any claim for general and special damages and interest .
13 Wendy , 40 , is a secretary/receptionist in a local doctors ' surgery .
14 Last year she decided to turn her hobby into full-time employment by opening a shop in a rural crafts centre .
15 By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit .
16 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 .
17 This was the year she finally emerged from her shell to win every round in a public relations battle she was determined should go her way .
18 A man in a dressing-gown steps out , carrying a shotgun .
19 This consequence was caused by London Weekend Television when it revealed that a juror in an official secrets case was a former member of the SAS , and by " The Guardian " when it published details of information discovered by police when they " vetted " a jury which was trying some anarchists .
20 There was nothing he wanted to see at any of the nearby cinemas , he 'd be irritable company in the local pub where he was a contender in a small bar-billiards school , so there was nothing for it but to spend the time watching television with the other sinners .
21 Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract .
22 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 .
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