Example sentences of "a [det] [noun] [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have all become used to matching colours in the home , and perhaps a little colour co-ordination in the garden would not go amiss . |
| 2 | Luxury sorbet with strawberry coulis Blend together strawberries with a little icing sugar in a good processor until it forms a smooth purée . |
| 3 | Passers- by might expect a few satin teddies in the window . |
| 4 | But seriously I think some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the mag — you 'd see far worse in many ‘ family newspapers ’ . |
| 5 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 6 | As a result , erm , prices wo n't be quite as volatile as they are in the opposite case , alright , when the world market , and virtually nobody , let's assume that virtually nobody uses the world market to trade in , they 've all got their own agricultural policies , right , just a few countries trade in the world market , it only takes erm , a , a sort of poor harvest , or a very good harvest in any one of these erm , er , sort of protected countries , in order to get rid of this output , they 'll put it on the world market . |
| 7 | Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers . |
| 8 | We also achieved a few column inches in the Focus paper and brought the NCT to the attention of many people who had never heard of us before . |
| 9 | It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ . |
| 10 | He was by no means unusual for his place and time : there were not a few London families in the mid-19th century who were busy accumulating all the paraphernalia that seemed to give them a gilt-edged claim to middle-class respectability — the portraits , the studio photographs , a family bible , ornate gravestones , even the odd crest and Latin motto . |
| 11 | Even a few microns difference in the size of a component can cost valuable minutes on the production line as machines are re-set . |
| 12 | Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals , bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic , and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles . |
| 13 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 14 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 15 | I guess he 's just what Big Jack needs , a full-back who 'll try & get forward , and if they qualify we could see a few Leeds players in the USA even if without England and Scotland . |
| 16 | Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place . |
| 17 | I like to have a few action songs in a party , either as part of a show or as an alternative to games . |
| 18 | Met at airport , change money , three and a half hour drive in the cool morning to Yalikavak . |
| 19 | By 1920 , 7 million workers had gained an average six and a half hour reduction in the working week — the equivalent , almost , of what we now see as a full day 's work . |
| 20 | It 's only his third run and he 's he 's in the most competitive two and a half mile chase in the year . |
| 21 | The shootings took place less than 24 hours after the IRA tried to kill a former UDR man in a Belfast nightspot . |
| 22 | The latest shootings took place less than 24 hours after the IRA tried to kill a former UDR man in a central Belfast nightspot . |
| 23 | POLICE are investigating an arson attack on a former DIY shop in a popular Middlesbrough shopping area . |
| 24 | The Congress ( I ) party in the Karnataka legislature removed Patil as its leader on Oct. 11 , replacing him on Oct. 12 with S. Bangarappa , a former Agriculture Minister in the Patil Cabinet and a Gandhi supporter . |
| 25 | Enrile , 66 , a former Defence Minister in the Aquino government , had played a crucial role in forcing President Marcos from office after his 1986 election defeat by Aquino [ see pp. 34297-302 ] . |
| 26 | A former wartime lieutenant in the Lithuanian police , Anton Gecas , on July 17 lost a £600,000 libel case against the United Kingdom Scottish Television company which had described him as a war criminal . |
| 27 | Mr Mates , a former Lieut Col in the Queen 's Dragoon Guards , was chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Defence and has been an MP for nearly 18 years . |
| 28 | David Checketts was his first private secretary , a former squadron leader in the RAF who had been equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh , and was the perfect person to help the Prince make the transition from the armed services into a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 29 | Barry Pexton 45 , a former dog handler in the Sultan of Brunei 's army , and his wife Carol , 38 , left their rented home , West End Cottage , Staxton , near Scarborough , last Wednesday telling their two daughters they were going for a drink . |
| 30 | They emerged from the entrance of a former iron mine in the Forest of Dean , exhausted . |