Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 2 | We had a business man on Question Time who was saying that five hundred million pound fraud going on in the benefits , right ? |
| 3 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 4 | Surely not all that protein synthesis going on in the absence of the inhibitor could be about learning and memory ; some other fundamental aspects of behaviour must be affected ? |
| 5 | This data , together with the data on productivity described below , suggests that the research work carried out in the geology departments of these universities is of a lower standard than that of the other Scottish universities . |
| 6 | This data , together with the data on productivity described below , suggests that the research work carried out in the geology departments of these universities is of a lower standard than that of the other Scottish universities . |
| 7 | The range of research work carried out in the department is wide and reflects its multidisciplinary character . |
| 8 | In principle , a non-UK firm needs to be authorised under the FSA for investment business carried on in the UK . |
| 9 | The ICAEW has developed a modified level of protection suitable for investment business carried out in the course of corporate finance activities for a corporate finance client . |
| 10 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , Belfast , was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 11 | The building was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 12 | A North-East woman caught up in the blast criticised British Rail for not acting quickly enough . |
| 13 | A curious old lady , seeing the horse collar hanging up in an unusual position , exclaimed peevishly : ‘ What 's this for ? |
| 14 | Have you ever noticed the response when a car alarm goes off in a busy street ? |
| 15 | Of course , this particular instance was treated as a Venetian holiday by the press , and no reader of the reports would probably have cared had the whole wedding party ended up in the canal . |
| 16 | The fire brigade van pulled up in a flurry of flashing lights and the crew were there immediately assessing the job . |
| 17 | This profitability is maintained by a balancing act ; the fundamental chemical industry balance summed up in the fact that if you want to get the utmost out of sodium chloride , you should n't have either sodium or chlorine left over unsold at the end of the day ; not much use increasing the use of one if you ca n't increase use of the other in proportion . |
| 18 | One day at lunch , a fist fight broke out in the dining hall . |
| 19 | The child Nizan grew up in the shadow of death . |
| 20 | But the effect of the policy , as the American Bar Association pointed out in a recent report , is that the country 's prisons are filled not only with drug-handlers but also with drug-takers , and can not cope with the numbers . |
| 21 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Over lunch in a Chinese restaurant in the Renaissance Centre — a huge tubular steel and glass shopping mall put up in an attempt to disguise Detroit 's decaying heart — Paris Gray is recounting the countries she 's visited in the past couple of months . |
| 23 | Also carefully lag any overflow pipes , so that should there be a ball valve failure there is no risk of an ice blockage building up in the overflow . |
| 24 | The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another . |
| 25 | The Mental Health Act Commission pointed out in a discussion paper in 1986 that guardianship ‘ has been so little used that its potential is untried ’ . |
| 26 | Riddick Bowe 's World Boxing Council belt ended up in the trash can , Mike Tyson ended up in the can , and Lennox Lewis became Britain 's first world heavyweight champion without even hitting anyone . |
| 27 | The Home Secretary pointed out in the debate on the Metropolitan police that Sir Peter Imbert had said that the map of deprivation matched almost exactly the map of crime in London . |
| 28 | They need not always be social workers , and indeed , there is one care management pilot going on in the city that has a district nurse as a care manager . |
| 29 | 5.3 The Project Manager will refine the suggested committee structure set out in the Proposal and agree with the Parties the composition of the Project and Technical Committees . |
| 30 | A recent council survey carried out in the Denes showed about a third of dog owners use the bins . |