Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had an altercation that soon resolved itself with me lying face-down in a damp bed of cardboard boxes at the loot of a hidden staircase . |
| 2 | Three freemen : Three long-serving Middlesbrough councillors have been made freemen of the borough in a special ceremony at the town hall . |
| 3 | I thought this was quite early in the case for an aggravation , so I had him take a dose every other day after diluting the remedy in a second glass of water . |
| 4 | One is that descendants of the marginal stock enter into competition with the parental stock in a third area of colonization . |
| 5 | The case was the latest episode in a long history of antagonism between the government and the Far Eastern Economic Review , the circulation of which had been severely restricted in Singapore . |
| 6 | It was possible to think of the episode in a detached sort of way , she found with relief , as though it had happened in another time and place to someone else . |
| 7 | The proposal was given the green light in a post-Tiananmen panic by people who will probably be living in Hampshire when , and if , the airport is built . |
| 8 | Jones searches for chinks of light in a dark age for women 's tennis David Foot on a former champion and her bright sparks aiming high in Cardiff . |
| 9 | Jones searches for chinks of light in a dark age for women 's tennis David Foot on a former champion and her bright sparks aiming high in Cardiff . |
| 10 | It was therefore important and exciting to notice that there was a light in a ground-floor window of his house and that , by a fortunate piece of carelessness on somebody 's part , the curtains had not been drawn . |
| 11 | It can provide general lighting so you can move around safely and see more or less what you are doing when it 's dark outside ; task lighting when you want more concentrated light in a particular area for a particular job ( including reading ) ; mood lighting to provide different atmospheres in different rooms at different times ; and it can also be used to illuminate the outside of the home . |
| 12 | One offer he describes as ‘ managing quite a lot of money ’ and the other was a partnership in a substantial firm of solicitors . |
| 13 | Nowadays he combines part-time photography teaching with his partnership in a commercial studio in Windsor . |
| 14 | She edged out Hatoof in a tight finish to the Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp on Arc day and holds Central City — also in today 's Newbury field — on earlier running in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot , when the pair were second and third to another unbeaten filly , Marling . |
| 15 | UAE troops joined around 1,000 troops from France 's Rapid Action Force ( FAR ) , navy and air force in a joint exercise on Feb. 22-27 ; codenamed " Little Fox " , it was the first of its kind between the two countries . |
| 16 | The police are called upon to perform many public services ( for example , see Punch 1979b ; Punch and Naylor 1973 ) , which is true even of a police force in a divided society like Northern Ireland , as the last chapter showed . |
| 17 | The definition eventually agreed for The Dartington Unit 's study of violence in residential care was ‘ the use of force in a social situation in a way that those in power define as illegitimate ’ , a perspective which sought to incorporate all the dimensions we have discussed . |
| 18 | Examples of good practice thus produced could then be an ingredient in a rolling programme of motivation and expansion in school library provision . |
| 19 | Devereux considers that , at root , there is a substratum which can only be described as consciousness , that this is a field effect and that the brain simply processes the consciousness in a similar way to that in which a television set processes a transmitted signal . |
| 20 | He pivoted the hammer in a wooden Kapsel on the key , which was normal for a German action , and added the escapement , not on the key , but hinged to the keyframe . |
| 21 | Home , for Mr Kronweiser , was a large bedroom in a working-class house to the north of the town . |
| 22 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that constituencies such as mine in Leeds have been very considerable beneficiaries of investment in a wide range of different industries ? |
| 23 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |
| 24 | I am disappointed at the hon. Gentleman 's negative attitude to a £300 million-plus investment in a second crossing of the Severn , which will improve enormously communications for the people of Wales . |
| 25 | The drive for continued efficiency improvements also resulted in an A$45 million investment in a new facility for United Distillers Australia , at Huntingwood near Sydney . |
| 26 | A big Australian brewery , Foster 's , announced an initial A$120m ( $13m ) investment in a joint venture with China 's Huaguang Brewery . |
| 27 | It may however , present a defendant in a criminal trial with a way of side-stepping the requirement that only the Attorney may bring actions for unintentional contempt . |
| 28 | There is no point in suggesting an itinerary in a small town like Stein . |
| 29 | Even Fergie got a mention in a spurious gag about how he and the Royal got together . |
| 30 | The deaths constituted the highest government loss in a single incident since the launch of the Tamil separatist campaign in 1983 . |