Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " For a man who can catch a gibbon in a Ming vase it will be child 's play . " |
| 2 | In the same sale the top price of £11,700 was given for a twelve-piece Ring 's Pattern set of table cutlery in an oak canteen which was made in Sheffield in 1931 and £950 for a George IV coffee pot of panelled baluster form decorated with acanthus leaf motifs made in London in 1825 , probably by Joseph Angell . |
| 3 | Sir Roger was responding to concern expressed by BA president John Hitchin of Phoenix Bookshops that books were now available to the public at differing prices , leading to confusion in a book market which research recently commissioned by the BA had shown to be ‘ one homogeneous whole ’ . |
| 4 | Muffled in furs , Franklin D. Hauser left the complex in a snow buggy which drove him to a helipad a kilometre away . |
| 5 | Initially , an entry in a reading lexicon which matches the sequence of letters that one has detected is located . |
| 6 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 7 | Clearance and redevelopment took their toll in a planning system which decreed that the densities deemed acceptable by the Victorian house builders were not appropriate for the late twentieth century . |
| 8 | Permissions granted by either the Use Classes Order or the GDO can also be removed by a specific condition in a planning permission which will override the provisions of the relevant Order . |
| 9 | ‘ For a relatively modest investment at a very acceptable price we have obtained an important strategic stake in a core business which has considerable growth potential . ’ |
| 10 | A French lady in an adjoining room who understood some English had become greatly alarmed and taken it upon herself to summon the police . |
| 11 | People came and went , but almost nobody stayed to eat ; Lucy had the dining area beside the counter more or less to herself , apart from a business type in an Aquascutum raincoat who sat two tables away reading a caravan magazine . |
| 12 | Smoking takes place in a smoke house which is linked by a pipe to a firebox . |
| 13 | Thus Jowell has commented that ‘ the major omission of the report is its failure to see development control 's place in a planning system whose scope has expanded radically since 1968 … somehow development control has not kept pace with this change ’ . |
| 14 | In the plan , British Telecom would install videodisc players at the point in a cable system which links up subscribers TV sets . |
| 15 | At any point in a marketing exercise there can be PR activity , for the simple reason that PR is concerned with human relations and is a two-way process . |
| 16 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 17 | She knew nothing of financial matters and had acted quite reasonably in placing her trust and confidence in a motor trader who had a good reputation in the area . |
| 18 | But in 1987 , even this flagship station suffered a major breakdown in a turbine generator which put one of its twin reactors out of action for over six months . |
| 19 | In Birmingham water caused an explosion in an electricity sub-station which cut supplies to 3,000 homes . |
| 20 | And , of course , if the enthusiastic shooter fires at a rabbit in a burrow entrance there is some risk of killing an unseen ferret just behind it . |
| 21 | He was also blamed for breaking co-star Paul Land 's ribs when , it was claimed , Rourke insisted on realism in a fight scene he had with Land . |
| 22 | More than that , Mosley had completely out-manoeuvred Balestre in an election campaign which the great Gallic dictator had never believed he could lose . |
| 23 | God answers this question without any hint of rebuke in a covenant promise which speaks to this question directly : ‘ Know this for certain … . ’ |
| 24 | After August 1939 it was no longer possible to have complete faith in a nation state which collaborated for whatever reason with fascism , even if that state happened to be the Soviet Union itself . |
| 25 | How can we as Black women have any faith in a police force which refuses to acknowledge our calls for help , refuses to provide protection , and refuses to take action against those who attack us ? |
| 26 | The clients get satisfaction from participation ( or , perhaps , participate as a result of their satisfaction ) , take part in a learning process which enriches them , and identify with a process in which they themselves are involved . |
| 27 | The trip is the final link in a recycling programme which in about 18 months ‘ time is expected to earn the Bank £54,000 a year . |
| 28 | In 1970 he suffered severe brain damage in a road accident which effectively ended his career . |
| 29 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 30 | She told me that there was some money in a bank account which had been raised in memory of her daughter . |