Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magistrates courts in Hull already use a private firm to process prisoners . |
| 2 | Clemens Winkler in Germany simultaneously developed a similar process , but acknowledged the independence of Messel 's work . |
| 3 | These culminated on 23 – 24 September , when the pro-Vichy forces in Dakar vigorously resisted a Free French landing , and de Gaulle and his forces were compelled to withdraw . |
| 4 | The southern movement of wheat in Texas also involved a significant climatic difference of a 12 per cent decrease in mean annual precipitation , a 1.6 °C higher mean annual temperature and a 10-day increase in the length of the frost-free season . |
| 5 | The Georgian military command in Sukhumi yesterday said a Russian Su-25 had attacked the city on Saturday . |
| 6 | Soviet assets in Luanda now include a floating dry-dock , a communications station and access for BEAR D aircraft which patrol the South Atlantic sealanes . |
| 7 | Headhunting in Britain apparently received a great boost from the deregulation of the stock market , the so-called Big Bang of October 1986 , within which the movement of teams of executives between merchant banks and other City businesses received especially extensive media publicity . |
| 8 | This act certainly constituted a legal precondition to the proclamation of Finland 's neutrality , but it coincided with a period in the mid and late 1950s when for various reasons the notion of neutrality in Europe suddenly gained a positive image among Soviet leaders . |
| 9 | Precisely four-fifths of the yeomen owned land , but even though this was far more widely diffused than in Rutland there remained a marked contrast between them and the husbandmen , of whom rather less than half were freeholders . |
| 10 | Yet they were here today in gratifying numbers , a double row of Larks looking very bronzed and weathered from striding over those ancestral acres , which men like her husband and Lizzie Braithwaite 's husband could never possess ; and their cousin , Colonel Covington-Pym , Master of Foxhounds , with his rather glorious , highly intimidating wife , a tall , red-haired woman who could be seen in Frizingley sometimes wearing a black riding-habit so tight that she must have been stitched into it — Linnet said — and mounted on a colossus of a horse very nearly the same colour as her hair . |
| 11 | I WAS very pleased to read your report ( Echo February 3 ) on the nuns leaving the Carmel convent in Darlington shortly to establish a multi-racial convent in Bophuthatswana , Southern Africa . |
| 12 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 13 | The 7,500-strong European-led force in Bosnia-Herzegovina already has a wide mandate to use force if anyone impedes its troops from achieving their objectives . |
| 14 | By far the most intriguing announcement in Wales also carried a competitive element , even if it had nothing at all to do with slow bowlers . |
| 15 | Gebrüder Mann in Berlin also offer a local topic , Der große Tiergarten in Berlin ( DM198 ) . |
| 16 | Even the smallest garden in Madeira usually has a small courtyard with pergola for vine , passion fruit or rose and numerous pot plants — orchids , anthuriums and ferns . |
| 17 | S. Stephen 's Cathedral in Vienna still has a Romanesque wing though it was built in the mid-thirteenth century . |
| 18 | A subsequent arrangement to go on a skiing holiday in Switzerland together proved a fatal turning point in their lives . |