Example sentences of "in a [det] [noun] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for la crème de la crème of ‘ softs ’ , as the trade calls linens and textiles , drive out to Freshford , where in a former hunting lodge Elizabeth Baer keeps her magpie collection , displayed in a linen room with that authentic ‘ air of pleasing decay ’ so admired by John Fowler ( of Colefax & ) . |
| 2 | Yet in a former Durham pit village , although all had either been made redundant or been forced out of work by ill-health , a group of miners were so sustained by the community network of neighbours and relatives that giving up work seemed a positive blessing . |
| 3 | When the Kenyan government called in a former Scotland Yard detective to clear up the murder of the foreign minister in 1990 , he fingered the former energy minister and confidant of the president . |
| 4 | In the Bellsdyke unit , the last four years have seen a successful and busy day hospital open in a former town centre house , a community health centre ( providing continuing care as well as acute and day hospital ) , warden supervised flats , supported housing projects and addiction outreach teams established . |
| 5 | In a few months Michael Portillo is likely to announce initial plans to distinguish ‘ essential costs ’ and ‘ avoidable spending ’ in four departments — Health , Education , the Home Office , and Social Security — which account for £110 billion of public spending . |
| 6 | A spillage of fuel oil at an ICI Billingham depot resulted in an all night clean-up operation . |
| 7 | But both the try and the victory itself were sweet moments for a player who earlier this season was advised to quit the sport after being injured in an All Ireland league match against Ballymena . |