Example sentences of "[noun pl] in a [adj] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burnside was given 12 months in a young offender 's institution and Sture jailed for a year . |
| 2 | THERE seem to be two distinct periods in a heterosexual woman 's life when being single is acceptable . |
| 3 | In the same way that the latter introduces , almost unconsciously , knowledge of the origin of words and the structure of a sentence , so playing on damp or drying pitches fills the gaps in a developing batsman 's technique . |
| 4 | David Williams , 20 , of Dalcross Court , Hemlington , was sentenced to two years in a young offender 's institute . |
| 5 | In the following passage , Michael Polanyi describes the changes in a medical student 's perceptual experience when he is taught to make a diagnosis by inspecting an X-ray picture . |
| 6 | A voire dire was held concerning the admissibility of evidence intended to be called by the prosecution , namely , evidence in the form of video tapes and sound recordings obtained by undercover police officers in a bogus jeweller 's shop , purporting to be willing to purchase stolen property and conversations and statements arising therefrom . |
| 7 | The boy stroked the girl 's side , twisting the walkman lead around his fingers in a one-handed cat 's cradle . |
| 8 | LCH may open any number of accounts in a clearing member 's name , and the member may designate one or more of them as client accounts . |
| 9 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 10 | Her only pleasure in it now was the notes left all over the place by her father : cheery instructions in a classical scholar 's hand , written on the gummed labels used by the more pious English government departments to get a second use out of old envelopes . |
| 11 | Typical examples are the continuously varying intensities of natural light , the meanders in an audio record 's groove , the variations in an electrical current and the mechanical fluctuations in the air which we interpret as sound . |
| 12 | Six years younger , Mrs Jones works afternoons in a local newsagent 's shop . |
| 13 | Fire division walls in a single storey E1 building between compartments of maximum size ( 14,000m2 ) are required to have two hours ' fire resistance . |
| 14 | On August 9 , 1892 , Lancashire defeated Somerset by eight wickets in a single day 's play |