Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |
| 2 | Such individuals may wait many weeks on remand in a prison hospital wing , sometimes even in a cell in a local police station , before they are assessed by the local service . |
| 3 | Both of the Deanses have been charged with fraud in a continuing police investigation into the affairs of the club . |
| 4 | She answered an advert in a lonely hearts column and started an affair with this man who had stated in the ad that he was a good looking 43-year-old bachelor , comfortably off , with car . |
| 5 | Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers . |
| 6 | He listens to early 70 's progressive rock , not contemporary rap music — and he wears a denim shirt with a tie — the clothes of a 35 year old trying to get a job in a suburban jeans boutique . |
| 7 | According to a Which ? report , 40 per cent of menus in NHS hospitals claiming to have a healthy food policy failed to reach an acceptable score in a nutritional values survey . |
| 8 | Last year she decided to turn her hobby into full-time employment by opening a shop in a rural crafts centre . |
| 9 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 10 | Over two hundred people from Garland Road and Felcourt formed themselves into teams of ten to pit their wits against each other in a trivial pursuits type quiz night . |
| 11 | It may also , for instance , include a statement by a minister on the effect of a provision in a private Members Bill . |
| 12 | FOURTEEN police officers in South Wales are to take part in an equal opportunities course . |
| 13 | The company claims that customers say that they want to do their development at the workgroup level in an open systems environment , on a range of hardware and under different operating systems , and to share data in a decentralised development environment , rather than have it all tied to the Repository on the mainframe server . |
| 14 | This would correspond to a named award in a combined studies degree or a tripos award in the Oxbridge sense . |
| 15 | 8 October : The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh left Heathrow Airport , London this afternoon in a British Airways Tristar for Singapore and Malaysia . |
| 16 | Some of the views of this teacher were echoed by an Asian pupil in a Social Studies lesson , where the class was looking at the issue of ‘ prejudices in society ’ . |
| 17 | Charlie ignored me , as he was ignoring most of his friends since he 'd appeared on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times with his band , Must n't Grumble , after an open-air gig in a local sports ground . |
| 18 | The charges related to the administration 's attempt to conceal the US role in a secret arms-for-hostages shipment by Israel to Iran in 1985 , an issue which had led to the filing of charges against former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger , in June 1992 [ see p. 38955 ] . |
| 19 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 20 | Three managers of the German firm Imhausen-Chemie were sentenced by a Mannheim court on Oct. 9 to suspended prison terms ranging from 10 to 16 months for contravention of foreign trade laws in exporting materials to Libya between 1984 and 1988 for use in a chemical weapons factory at Rabta , south of Tripoli . |
| 21 | Initially this could be a minor subject in a combined studies degree ( Computer Science and EP or Library Science and EP ) but this is likely to be only a short step before the full degree course materializes . |
| 22 | IBM Corp last week took its first step towards saving the AS/400 from going the way of the mainframe when it accompanied the new F models with a string of software offerings and initiatives designed to make the machine sit more comfortably as a database server in an open systems environment . |
| 23 | Meanwhile a pair of kestrels has produced four young in a disused ventilation pipe in a raw materials store . |
| 24 | Then your detective should have much more of the qualities that make for success in a real police officer , and much less vulnerability to comic events . |
| 25 | There was nothing he wanted to see at any of the nearby cinemas , he 'd be irritable company in the local pub where he was a contender in a small bar-billiards school , so there was nothing for it but to spend the time watching television with the other sinners . |
| 26 | This consequence was caused by London Weekend Television when it revealed that a juror in an official secrets case was a former member of the SAS , and by " The Guardian " when it published details of information discovered by police when they " vetted " a jury which was trying some anarchists . |
| 27 | Johnson was the shining star in an excellent Whitecaps side which included former English internationalists Alan Ball and Jon Sammels. his performances put an estimated 6,000 on the team 's home gate ; within a season Johnson had led them to the Soccer Bowl final against Tampa Bay Rowdies . |
| 28 | Within a book detailing several fascinating cases of the implementation of new technology and its organisational impact , they detail two applications of computerised equipment controls to a biscuit making line in a United Biscuits factory in the UK . |
| 29 | Fenton was given 18 months detention in a young offenders institution for the aggravated burglary and 12 months concurrent for each of the other offences . |
| 30 | Kakabadse ( 1982 ) examines culture in a social services department . |