Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loves gym workouts , swimming and playing netball — she is a leading light in a local women 's team . |
| 2 | How can we allow the commercial hunting of whales when they could be starved of food because of ozone depletion in a few years ' time ? " |
| 3 | As they broke bread it spurted and dripped blood , and their mirth was the rattle in a dying man 's throat . |
| 4 | A chance mention in a letter written in the 820s shows that one card in a Carolingian king 's hand was the existence of a " solemn custom " whereby any recipient of a benefice had to come to the palace in person and ritually " commend " himself to the king . |
| 5 | This chapter contains an overview of the present state of play , and considers the basic requirements for practice in a conventional solicitors ' partnership . |
| 6 | forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 ) |
| 7 | Where he received his training is not known — an apprenticeship in a professional architect 's office away from Kendal seems likely — but as he did not attend the Royal Academy Schools it was probably elsewhere in the north rather than in London . |
| 8 | The only flexibility in a local authority 's ability to raise finance will be the poll tax , which on current reckoning is intended to make up only 20 per cent of a local authority 's revenue base . |
| 9 | Jack Mahoney gets two in the chest , and three guys bust open a safe in a downtown jeweller 's . |
| 10 | The motion called on the chamber to reconsider the issue in a few years ' time . |
| 11 | While that principle is maintained by the Act in relation to most matters concerning a child in a local authority 's care , a residence order under section 8 is expressly excepted by section 9(1) . |
| 12 | After a number of juvenile jobs he began work in a local joiner 's shop and acquired the skills of a carpenter although he was never officially apprenticed . |
| 13 | A young , unescorted girl in a grubby man 's raincoat , taking a 3/6d. seat when the last programme was half-over , upset , for them , the natural order of things . |
| 14 | If an incident takes place in a local GP 's surgery , you should complain to the local Family Practitioner Committee , whose number will be in the Yellow Pages . |
| 15 | Even the World Bank regularly despatches different missions to an individual country unaware of each others ' presence , or who may meet by accident in a permanent secretary 's outer office . |
| 16 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 17 | To get to that point , there was a quantum leap to be achieved , the proverbial turning point in a young man 's life when fate or some other thing takes a hand , and it was at this point in time that June — whom he says he still believed was his sister — reappeared in the story as a catalyst to a decision that would ultimately prove to be the most important in his life . |
| 18 | It 's summer 1992 , a poetry reading evening in a working men 's club . |
| 19 | Wendy , 40 , is a secretary/receptionist in a local doctors ' surgery . |
| 20 | Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time . |
| 21 | Simply by sitting there , he rendered the dining-room as cold and cheerless as a room in a commercial traveller 's guesthouse . |
| 22 | And a long slit in a trapped hare 's belly |
| 23 | Tea and a plain biscuit in a brick-built vicarage 's front room . |
| 24 | Without pilots gaining experience at the lowest level , we will be shaping up for another chronic pilots shortage in a few years ' time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She walked them towards each other , their clawed feet bent stiffly inwards , on the cold slate shelf : " How did you get shot , little brother ? " each asked the other in a high child 's squeak of imitation . |
| 27 | I understand that the Secretary of State for the Environment is to develop the concept of ’ Tarzan 's folly ’ at a London Weekend Television seminar in a few weeks ' time , but the right place to develop the concept is on the Floor of the House . |
| 28 | The man was stooped over the sign in a ragged butler 's outfit with trousers that were too short , exposing his white ankles . |
| 29 | After the Dorrits come into their fortune Mr Plornish is found ‘ a small share in a small builder 's business ’ , and Mrs Plornish is established ‘ in the small grocery and general trade in a snug little shop at the crack end of the Yard ’ , where she is joined by her poor father , Old Nandy , to whom she is devoted , and assisted by Maggy . |
| 30 | Distractions , distractions , squirt chilli juice in a wounded elephant 's eye … |