Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social work in a social services setting |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You should enquire what the rules are and additionally , to give you a better idea of what size pension you might realistically expect , you could ask for some practical examples — say , over the last five years — of retired individuals in a similar earnings bracket to your own . |
| 4 | She loves gym workouts , swimming and playing netball — she is a leading light in a local women 's team . |
| 5 | Her imagination went wild ; she pictured Barney seated in a hard chair in a dingy police interview room while the detective probed and bullied and cajoled , plucking away at the outer layers of his mind , stripping it down to its sensitive core , implacable in his search for signs of weakness or guilt . |
| 6 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 10 | Living in the house , Farrel soon discovered , was like being a very junior NCO in a senior officers ' mess . |
| 11 | This would correspond to a named award in a combined studies degree or a tripos award in the Oxbridge sense . |
| 12 | Demi Moore has out-styled Julia Roberts , Mariah Carey and Cher by becoming Hollywood 's best tressed star in a recent hairdressers ' poll . |
| 13 | Soon after I arrived , with the parish church nearly full ( it seats about 250 ) , Hartmut took a team of twelve out from the church to form a new congregation in a disused Brethren hall given to us free of charge . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A minor option in a combined studies degree — Such an option usually represents four or five modules . |
| 17 | If you are an ‘ end-user ’ with a potential interest in an open systems approach to distributed processing , particularly if you are using OSI products , why not contact us for further details and a copy of the ‘ marriage broking ’ form ? |