Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter contains an overview of the present state of play , and considers the basic requirements for practice in a conventional solicitors ' partnership . |
| 2 | The UBP won 23 of the 40 seats in the House of Assembly in a general elections on Feb. 9 , 1989 [ see p. 36462 ] . |
| 3 | The permitted hours provisions do not apply to any persons in premises where they are residing or to the supply of liquor to private friends of residents in a licensed premises entertained by the residents at their own expense . |
| 4 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 5 | Both of the Deanses have been charged with fraud in a continuing police investigation into the affairs of the club . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Quality service is what sets us aside and under-pins the company 's place among the FTSE top 100 British companies , the second best company in Europe in a Financial Times survey , the eleventh most admired company in the UK according to the Economist , and now first place in the Business Enterprise Award of the Confederation of British Industries , as Company of The Year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It needs neither the approbation of ace tuner Alpina nor the motivation of an M-power badge to crack 140mph — 141–3mph on the Millbrook bowl is around 10mph faster than the old 325i could manage — or sprint from rest to 60mph in a sizzling 7.3secs . |
| 10 | The accused man Paul Beechey was driven into the magistrates court at Didcot in an unmarked police car . |
| 11 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |