Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb -s] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large , but mostly one who , through ignorance or stupidity steals in a way that is not customary . |
| 2 | difficulties ensuring discipline , either because of uncertainties over parental status or power struggles in a remarriage where the partner adopts the child . |
| 3 | The sixteenth-century shroud was a voluminous sheet , gathered at the head and foot ends in a knot ; those of the eighteenth century were more tailored , with sleeves and draw-strings ; whilst in the nineteenth century they were fully fashioned . |
| 4 | But the fundamental incommensurability of idea and event re-emerges in a precariousness in this narrativization of history where each disturbance in the writing punctuates it with the unassimilable , discontinuous and disjunctive temporality of the event . |
| 5 | Place the carrots , sauce , butter beans , Edam and egg yolks in a food processor . |
| 6 | 1 Combine all the salad and herb leaves in a bowl , cover and chill until ready to serve it . |
| 7 | Pound together the basil , garlic and pine kernels in a mortar or blender until you have a fine paste . |
| 8 | Then 1967 brought the popular superimposition of doves and castle ramparts in a graphic which was very much a child of its design age . |