Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many homes in the Belvoir Park estate were extensively damaged in a devastating IRA attack on the previous laboratories . |
| 2 | The sentence followed Poindexter 's conviction in a federal District Court on April 7 on all five felony counts ( including obstructing and lying to Congress ) arising from his role in the Iran-contra scandal [ see pp. 37368-69 ] . |
| 3 | Fiers appeared in a federal District court on July 9 and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanour counts of withholding information from Congress . |
| 4 | Her daughter Brenda Robinson , of Middleton-in-Teesdale , told South-West Durham coroner Colin Penna how she found her mother 's body in a remote water tank on her parents ' farm . |
| 5 | But missing the summit of a tower means you ca n't leave your name and a message to the future in the route book , usually found in a flag-like tin box on the top . |
| 6 | In a Russian television interview on March 30 Gamsakhurdia asserted that Shevardnadze was " the main character in those bloody events , that bloody putsch , and in the anarchy and destabilization which is obvious in Georgia now " . |
| 7 | The Queen disliked the service , which was hidden away and only re-emerged in the early 1980s when included in a Dutch television programme on royal gifts . |
| 8 | In a separate Commons debate on the Disability ( Grants ) Bill , which brings in the two new independent living funds , Scott was asked whether local authorities could provide cash for clients to buy their own care . |
| 9 | A death toll of 115 was recorded on April 28-29 in a Tamil Tiger attack on a Moslem village in the eastern Polonnaruwa district and in the equally bloody reprisal killings of Tamil villagers . |
| 10 | A civil servant in his early 50's was involved in a serious car accident on his way to visit relatives . |
| 11 | On the surface , the Conservative victory of 1979 seemed to blunt the case for change and in a 1981 Commons debate on the British constitution the minister of state at the Home Office boldly put the case for no change , arguing that " this is a time when we should stand up for our great tradition of parliamentary democracy … |
| 12 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 13 | When building tanks , especially of large proportions , a more professional approach is required as outlined in a recent PFK project on tank building by Audrey Reid . |
| 14 | In a recent television programme on the subject of war photography ( presented somewhat predictably by William Shawcross — the Vietnam industry may cast its net wide but it has its favourite media starts and Shawcross is one of them ) . |
| 15 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 16 | In December 1991 Keating had been found guilty in a Californian state court on 17 counts of fraud [ see p. 38669 ] . |
| 17 | On July 31 the High Court fined Channel Four and Box Productions ( an independent programme maker ) £75,000 for refusing to name a source in a controversial television documentary on Northern Ireland broadcast in October 1991 . |
| 18 | Even if Telecom could get planning permission for its Ballsbridge site ( although it is difficult to see anyone now wanting to get caught up in a possible planning scandal on top of what has already gone down ) the development costs are going to be huge . |
| 19 | The resilient 11-times champion jockey remains under intensive care in a Miami hospital , recovering from a fractured collar-bone and two broken ribs sustained in a terrible mid-race fall on Saturday . |
| 20 | Although there is no specific luggage compartment , bags go in a former radio stowage on its humped back , while the nose area ( which now houses a 45- pound lead ballast weight replacing the guns ) could be modified to take an overnight bag if needed . |
| 21 | But in a former gunnery hall on the extreme southerly edge of South End camp , Friends of the SAAF Museum have established a foothold which looks set to prosper . |
| 22 | In a wide-ranging television interview on Nov. 9 President François Mitterrand proposed a number of changes to the Constitution , including a reduction in the president 's term from seven " at least " to six years , a reduction of presidential powers and a corresponding increase in the powers of the Prime Minister and the National Assembly , a strengthening of the independence of the judiciary ( including ending ministerial immunity from prosecution in ordinary courts ) , and greater scope for the use of referendums . |
| 23 | In a major Cabinet reshuffle on Feb. 22 , Lekhanya dismissed the Ministers of Planning and Economic Affairs , Health , Foreign Affairs , Information and Broadcasting , Justice and Prisons , Employment , Social Security and Pensions , Agriculture , Marketing and Co-operatives , and Highland Water and Energy . |
| 24 | Finally , if you are already subscribing to company AVCs , before investing in a new plan check on your present level of contributions and the benefits that these are expected to yield . |
| 25 | In a masterly television interview on Sunday , John Smith , the shadow Chancellor , exuded competence and an almost Gladstonian fiscal probity , but there was a ring of the Sixties about the accompanying discussion between MPs and experts which left the impression that , in squaring circles , the Labour Party remains endemically the party of inflation . |
| 26 | Lewis , 26 , who meets Commonwealth champion Derek Williams in a triple title fight on April 30 at the Royal Albert Hall , says he has altered his style and returned to the ‘ Lennox of old ’ . |
| 27 | Set in a Mallorcan hotel room on the night of England 's World Cup semi-final against West Germany in 1990 , the action follows both the game and the disruption of Bill and Monica 's marriage . |
| 28 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 29 | His preliminary architectural sketches hung in a long glass frame on the passage wall inside the cottage . |
| 30 | Now if you 'd put that brain in a five mile tail-back on the M1 , it would probably have gone out of its mind . |