Example sentences of "in a [noun] ['s] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would prevent our living in a fools ' paradise of false prosperity . |
| 2 | In a boy 's camp for Nazis |
| 3 | The maximum fine in a Magistrates ' Court for breaches of ss 2 to 6 of the Act and of other sections relating to breaches of improvement notices , and prohibition notices or court remedy orders , has risen to £20,000 and all other breaches of the Act or subordinate Regulations and other relevant legislation now incur a maximum fine of £5,000 ( previously £2,000 ) . |
| 4 | Here snack bars , kiosks , toilets , seats and other walker-orientated services would cluster in a pedestrians ' version of the motorway service station . |
| 5 | ‘ A man I know who works in a tailor 's shop in London backed Terimon in a forecast with Nashwan at 2,000-1 , ’ Brittain explains . |
| 6 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 7 | … some time cook-maid in a gentleman 's family in the neighbourhood . |
| 8 | By October she was back in London , billeted in a students ' hostel at Southampton Row , and worshipping at Regent Hall , where the Australian group had made such an impact the night of their arrival in Britain for the International Youth Congress . |
| 9 | During their trial separation , Robyn became deeply involved in a Women 's Group at Cambridge who met regularly but informally to discuss women 's writing and feminist literary theory . |
| 10 | Maria Elena Aparicio was sentenced to seven years and is believed to be held in a women 's prison in Havana . |
| 11 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 12 | By virtue of its nature and scale , the Z-Score is unsuitable for monitoring trends in a company 's solvency over time and averaging to provide an industry picture . |
| 13 | A minority shareholder may override the transfer provisions in a company 's Articles of Association by a successful application for an order under s459 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 14 | It has been pointed out that investors are primarily motivated to invest in a company 's shares on the basis of the company 's likely profitability ; not whether the management engage in insider dealing . |
| 15 | The mode of student attendance is more difficult to forecast , because while a full-time place for study will feature topmost in a candidate 's range of choices , the prospect of getting a job early may provide a stimulus for part-time study . |
| 16 | What possesses a grown man to pretend he is sitting in a psychiatrist 's chair on radio and ask celebrities questions in a lilting Irish accent about their mummies and daddies ? |
| 17 | As the light of that winter day faded and the swirling fog closed in , the two friends took shelter in a platelayer 's cabin at the northern end of the line 's long curve . |
| 18 | ‘ As you wish , ’ said the seal , diving deep in a dragon 's breath of bubbles . |
| 19 | The remarkable Anderson , in addition to playing rugby and cricket at area and county junior levels , competing as a decathlete for Birchfield and qualifying to coach nine sporting events , gained an impressive tally of educational qualifications culminating in a Master 's degree from the University of Leicester . |
| 20 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 21 | The mines have long been closed but a relic survives in a blacksmith 's forge behind the crumbled walls . |
| 22 | But er his erm father h was the blacksmith and he had been born away up , and er he came to Ga he came to serve his time in a blacksmith 's shop at and er |
| 23 | This dislocated alternation of joy and fear , anxiety and compulsion , of being outside and inside , and of time that is distorted away from the normal sequence , is difficult to put into words , later words , linear words : but once , in a friend 's flat in Holland Park , I heard the opening passages of a gramophone record which almost caught it : Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion . |
| 24 | This description is given , partly verbally and partly in a more formal way ( by tables and diagrams ) , in the computer system reference manual , or in a programmer 's guide to the computer 's assembler language ; the latter tends to subsume the effect of some of the computer 's more basic software in the description . |
| 25 | The belts went under the hammer in a Sotheby 's auction in Canterbury fetching forty two thousand pounds . |
| 26 | Her gran 's lips disappeared in a cat 's cradle of lines , her etched brow crumpled a tangled web over her eyes . |
| 27 | SCOTLAND go to Twickenham in a fortnight 's time with the best chance of beating England at home for years . |
| 28 | A tasty two-week campaign on national telly will go out in a fortnight 's time in the kids ' peak viewing slot — just between the early evening news and the popular Home And Away soap . |
| 29 | The body is fingerprinted and buried in a pauper 's grave on Hart Island . |
| 30 | ‘ Yeats was in a pauper 's grave in France , cremated , but he was brought back here to be buried later , ’ Father Devine explained . |