Example sentences of "[noun pl] in a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to climb what seemed a never-ending staircase to a high platform where we took our seats in a punt at the top of a slide having water rushing down it . |
| 2 | After 2 defeats in a row at the Manor , Oxford United are probably looking forward to their trip to St Andrews to play bottom club , Birmingham . |
| 3 | Healey had already outlined some ideas in a lecture at the University of California in February 1961 . |
| 4 | The diurnal birds of prey are a large , distinctive group of medium to large long-winged birds , adapted to flesh-eating by their hooked bills and powerful talons ; their nostrils in a cere at the base of the bill . |
| 5 | Roman settled them at one of the small tables in a garden at the side of the yard at the Crowned Head . |
| 6 | They swaggered to a classy , confident victory full of irresistible one-touch football that took the Magpies ever closer to Reading 's 1985 record of 13 wins in a row at the start of a season . |
| 7 | One most destructive mode by which vast numbers are destroyed is that of chasing the birds in a boat at the time they shed their primary quill-feathers , when being unable to fly they are soon rowed down and captured ; this practice , which is to be much regretted , is usually resorted to for the sake of the beautiful down with which the breasts are clothed , but not unfrequently is mere wantonness . |
| 8 | The former can easily be caricatured as humourless puritans who object to games which involve guessing the number of beans in a jar at the church fete . |
| 9 | As to the second , there are two fractals in physics whose D is fairly well accounted for , namely the ‘ Brownian ’ drift of a small particle jostled by molecules in a fluid which is an erratic curve with D=2 , and the hierarchy of density fluctuations in a fluid at the critical point where it can not properly be considered as liquid or gas . |
| 10 | Hickson alleged that while in the police station where he had been taken by P.C. Torney on a charge of having stolen 10&shilling from the pocket of his clothes in a cubicle at the Corporation Swimming Baths , the constable gave him a violent blow to the eye , and followed this up by two blows to the body … he was subsequently acquitted on this charge . |
| 11 | " " There are a thousand lettuces in a pile at the top of the marsh . |