Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our expenses in running these teams include league and club entry fees , referees fees , refreshments , nets for goals , footballs and three sets of kit and changes of kit , in case of a colour clash . |
| 2 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 3 | Most of the local men who had come for the conventicle , had come armed in case of a surprise attack , and many of the others agreed to arm themselves , but additional men would be required if the Dragoons were to be confronted . |
| 4 | Members of two Norwegian environmental groups have staged spectacular protests against oil exploration in the Barents Sea , which they claim is too risky because the inhospitable climate and months of winter darkness would make a clean-up operation impossible in case of a pollution accident . |
| 5 | She 'd call the apartment in Palma in case by a miracle Steve had returned . |
| 6 | I have n't got money left over to start whacking in money into a pension scheme . |
| 7 | There was game soup for dinner , and haddock cooked in milk with a bay leaf , and blackcock with carrots and potatoes and a pudding Alexandra detested flavoured with marmalade . |
| 8 | DESERT Rat hero Theo Pyke left 1p to his local council — in payment of a poll tax bill he had already settled . |
| 9 | He was discovered after singing ‘ Yellow Submarine ’ in Latin in a Commons debate on education . |
| 10 | Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the C.-in-C. of the Army and former military dictator , ordered the Army to step down from a state of full alert on Sept. 24 in response to a telephone call from President Patricio Aylwin Azócar . |
| 11 | During December the Indonesian government reported the surrender of large groups of East Timorese rebels in response to a government offer of clemency . |
| 12 | A general strike had already taken place in July in response to a government announcement that agreement had been reached with the IMF on conditions for a standby loan which sources in the capital , Santo Domingo , described as " one of the most drastic programmes ever contemplated by the IMF " . |
| 13 | The report is in response to a Government consultation document on the European Commission draft directive on the protection of young people at work . |
| 14 | On Jan. 14 , in response to a law suit brought by a West Bank resident , an Israeli high court judge found this to be " blatant discrimination " and ordered the military authorities to begin distribution of gas masks to Palestinians . |
| 15 | It replaces the traditional three-year degree and one-year Law Society Finals course and was developed in response to a Law Society initiative . |
| 16 | Module and file transfers between LIFESPAN and user accounts are carried out automatically by LIFESPAN in response to a user request . |
| 17 | This finding is consistent with the previous studies showing that duodenal ulcer patients have an increased sensitivity to pentagastrin as well as to endogenous gastrin released in response to a peptone meal . |
| 18 | The village was discovered following work undertaken by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust Ltd. in 1977 and 1982 in response to a development threat close to the known site of Cosmeston Castle . |
| 19 | This is particularly well demonstrated in the experimental animal where the emigration of neutrophils through the intestinal mucosa in response to a luminal chemoattractand does not cause tissue damage while intracutaneous inoculation of the same substance does . |
| 20 | The transition to deceleration is slower than for the excitation jump method , because the motor torque only changes sign in response to a rotor movement , rather than an excitation change ; but the complication of decrementing tile step count is avoided . |
| 21 | By the end of the week the concern may be to assess a new approach to the pay round in response to a union proposal . |
| 22 | In response to a question Sheila described the South London women 's group who had produced the pamphlet arguing for wages for housework . |
| 23 | Only a few weeks before , he had said in response to a publicity interviewers ' assertion that his father , John , had abandoned the family when he was born : ‘ My father and mother separated when I was a baby . |
| 24 | Some days later , Patrick Cooney , the Irish minister of Justice , in response to a Dublin newspaper report denied that the Irish Special Branch had a dossier , implicating British agents from the Special Air Service in the bombings . |
| 25 | Over 50,000 people gathered in response to a opposition call to mobilize for the victory of democracy . |
| 26 | Whereas the EAT relies upon a single elicitation strategy ( word naming in response to a picture stimulus ) , the Goldman-Fristoe test ( Goldman and Fristoe 1969 ) sets out to examine a range of different phonemes in both imitative and ‘ conversational ’ contexts . |
| 27 | Nestle Foods Corporation said it would not buy Salvadoran coffee for 30 days in response to a consumer group campaign against the war in El Salvador . |
| 28 | It 's not interdependent , ’ he said , in response to a shareholder question . |
| 29 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 30 | A Swordfish was despatched to shadow while seven others were readied and armed ( six with torpedoes , one with bombs ) in preparation for a night strike . |