Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then received conditioning trials with the light as the CS in a third context ( C ) . |
| 2 | In 1947 , Tawney in his preface to The future in Adult Education , raised many of the post-war problems facing the WEA in a changing society . |
| 3 | The Eastern District also featured prominently among the appendices to the evidence , where there were several tables of information about selected Districts : the Eastern was a good choice for inclusion here because it embraced almost twice as many branches as any other District , it covered a distinctive part of the country and its relatively-high level of students ' and members ' financial contributions tended to show the WEA in a good light . |
| 4 | Then he came to the difficulties faced by the WEA in a large town : |
| 5 | The Support Force was launched in September 1992 by the DoH in a disastrous public relations exercise . |
| 6 | Also on Saturday , June 27 , shareholders of the West Somerset Railway will join in the festivities with a ride over the Quantocks in a special train from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead . |
| 7 | They formed the great bulk of the riotous crowd in 1749 who , after three sailors had been robbed in a brothel , rioted and burned down bawdy houses in the Strand in a three-day riot , although the only unfortunate Tyburn example made on this occasion was the improbably named Bosavern Penlez , a wig maker . |
| 8 | The simple margin method has the disadvantage of amortizing the discount or premium on the FRN in a straight line over the remaining life of the bond rather than at a constantly compounded rate . |
| 9 | He deliberately kept the Lamonts in a separate compartment , their home providing him with a place to refuel in company he enjoyed and in countryside he loved . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |
| 12 | The PNP in a general election on Feb. 9 , 1989 , won 45 of the 60 seats in the House of Representatives , defeating the JLP , which had held office since 1980 [ see p. 36461 ; for March 1990 municipal elections see p. 37816 ] . |
| 13 | Although these areal units will alter less with time than administrative units , they are nonetheless transitory and so , ideally , smaller and more permanent units like kilometre grid squares should be used , as they have been by the OPCS in a limited fashion , as the basic building block . |
| 14 | They are the only Government in recent history to have cut the real resources available to the NHS in a particular year . |
| 15 | Having a friend who lives on the Blackwater in an old Thames sailing barge , complete with sails and engine , I rather object to the notion that barges must be passively powerless . |
| 16 | The hornpipe is not exclusive to England , which many seem to think , even though Petipa in his ballet The Daughter of Pharaoh included a hornpipe to represent the Thames in a spectacular scene where the four greatest rivers of the world met ‘ under the sea ’ . |
| 17 | Chase Lodge is well-placed , lying near the banks of the Thames in a conservation area , bordered by the Royal Bushy Park . |
| 18 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 19 | It was generally assumed that Chamberlain would prefer to sacrifice imperial interests in a compromise with Hitler , than to join the USSR in an anti-fascist alliance . |
| 20 | I can recall driving home with the Jacksons in a high cart . |
| 21 | It is ironic to reflect that had he served the Luftwaffe in a similar role to that which he graced in the Royal Air Force , there can be little doubt that he would have been invested with the highest order of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross — with Diamonds , Swords and Oakleaves . |
| 22 | Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night . |
| 23 | He was supposed to be crossing the Atlantic in a rubber boat . |
| 24 | Like some people get a kick out of crossing the Atlantic in an old bath , so my particular surgeon , for all his great skill , is not quite right in the head . |
| 25 | He wanted to arrive at the Stasis in a calm frame of mind ; he wanted to settle himself and prepare for it . |
| 26 | IN THE WILDERNESS : Having lost his Minister 's limo , David Mellor leaves the Commons in a C-reg VW |
| 27 | MCC bosses had hoped to deflect the rebels from insisting on the meeting , which will cost £17,000 and may well have to be held at a huge venue like Westminster Hall , by offering to pass on their views on the Gower affair to the selectors and the TCCB in an unprecedented letter of protest . |
| 28 | Bonanza rested the Havana in a nearby ashtray . |
| 29 | After driving through streets filled with angry demonstrators , he found the Shah in a darkened room of the Palace , wearing large sunglasses that his half his face . |
| 30 | It was agreed with the Prince that the interview would take place at Broadlands where he would be staying with the Brabournes in a few weeks ' time . |