Example sentences of "in [noun prp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 2 | The show moves to the Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp in a reduced form from 12 December 1992 until 8 March 1993 . |
| 3 | The 1979 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Californian wine was won by Champerelle restaurant in Wellington in a British wine magazine competition . |
| 4 | Inge stayed with the Robins family in Falmouth in a large house and had the benefits of a private tutor but she was homesick for Vienna . |
| 5 | The terrorists first attempted to use it in December in an unsuccessful attack on Ballygawley police station , when the mortar failed to fire . |
| 6 | Nijman Zeetank , a Dutch transport operation , has set up its UK headquarters in Skelmersdale in a new office and transport yard complex in Paddock Road . |
| 7 | For some years , SCOTVEC has had an Awards Ceremony at which students received prizes as , for example , the best student in Scotland in a particular HNC or HND course . |
| 8 | The consortium described the agreement as " a back-handed deal " which did nothing to secure the future of the 2 per cent of lowland bogs which survive in England in a semi-natural state with rare plants and animals . |
| 9 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 10 | In March 1940 a puppet regime under the former nationalist Wang Jingwei was established in Nanjing in a belated attempt to increase Chinese support . |
| 11 | They got one off the Welsh side in October in a 1-1 draw . |
| 12 | Sue now lives in Putney in a Victorian house , and the family also has a cottage in Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period . |
| 14 | The kit is going on sale in Britain in a few months for around £14,000 and takes between 500 and 1,000 hours to complete . |
| 15 | Acid rain was found in 85 per cent of samples taken from 23,000 locations in Japan in a three-month survey conducted earlier this year by the Japanese Consumers ' Co-operative Union ( JCCU ) . |
| 16 | Quality service is what sets us aside and under-pins the company 's place among the FTSE top 100 British companies , the second best company in Europe in a Financial Times survey , the eleventh most admired company in the UK according to the Economist , and now first place in the Business Enterprise Award of the Confederation of British Industries , as Company of The Year . |
| 17 | Meetings were still going on in Manchester in a last-minute attempt to avoid today 's scheduled hearing in the High Court . |
| 18 | Corazon Aquino , his successor , had refused to allow the body to be returned for burial and it was stored in Hawaii in an air-conditioned crypt . |
| 19 | When the Secretary of State worked in Glasgow in a previous life , he grew to know the value of the stamp , ’ Clyde-built ’ . |
| 20 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 21 | He also agrees to my request to take Fairfax on board as historical adviser and fixes a meeting in London in a few weeks to review progress . |
| 22 | The first major film to deal with Vietnam was John Wayne 's The Green Berets ( 1968 ) about the US Army Special Forces units , which had been present in Vietnam in an advisory capacity since 1957 . |
| 23 | In 1973 , I was living in Dublin in a teeny bedsit with three other women . |