Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British girl held out until being caught in a hold 30 seconds from the end . |
| 2 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 3 | Two engines were found in a lake nine miles from the disaster area . |
| 4 | We crossed the Sacramento on the bleached bones of an old dead pine and pitched camp in a meadow 6,000 feet above sea level , under the summit of Mount Eddy . |
| 5 | All in a space fifteen feet by twelve . |
| 6 | For the couple made their wedding vows while floating in a balloon 600 feet above the ground in Orlando , Florida , in a sensational start to their married life . |
| 7 | In a sense all techniques of distraction are techniques of attention switching . |
| 8 | The first sighting of Filden I by Venturous was in a position six miles off Dunkirk from where she was shadowed at a discreet distance with radio reports of her movements being sent at regular intervals by Venturous to the shore watchers in the vicinity of North Foreland . |
| 9 | Fishlock added : ‘ Sellafield today is seen , not as a liability , but as an asset to tourism in the Lake District ’ and he believed it was equipped ‘ for a more environmentally conscious 1990s in a way other parts of British industry have scarcely begun to address . ’ |
| 10 | In a way national plans in Western Europe are an anomaly . |
| 11 | Dean 's body lay for four months in a lane 12 miles from the family home in Elmesthorpe , Leicestershire . |
| 12 | She sheltered in a summer-house twenty metres from the windows of the music room . |
| 13 | Both men had shops in a village ten miles to the east of Reine , on the Seine . |
| 14 | Again , it would take a very stubborn inductivist to put his hand in a fire many times before concluding that fire burns . |
| 15 | She also informed the Queen she will share Christmas with the Royal Family on her own terms , and will stay with the Duchess of York in a farmhouse two miles from Sandringham . |
| 16 | He also scored the fastest uncontrived century in first-class cricket , in a whirlwind 35 minutes at Northampton in 1920 . |
| 17 | The ‘ conjuring trick ’ — which , of course , can not come off — is that of investing in a process those features of the use of an expression which constitute its grammar . |
| 18 | The man said that he had been alone in a cell 4 metres by 5 metres , with only loudspeakers for company for a week . |
| 19 | In a town twenty miles from the school the story was that he was guilty and had been sacked . ’ |
| 20 | The report has bitterly disappointed the mother of Tristan Watkins , who was found dead in a pool 11 days after being discharged . |
| 21 | In 1985 , a girl suffered serious burns following an explosion in a house 50 metres from a landfill in North Yorkshire . |
| 22 | In Goldman v. Hargrave , a redgum tree on the defendant 's land was struck by lightning and caught fire in a fork eighty feet above ground . |
| 23 | John Paul Jones ) play even more fantastically monikered instruments ( ‘ pintrumpet guitar ’ , ‘ kuti-bass ’ ) while BE tinkers on his tube organs and valve synths in a tonally-challenging 63 minutes of pop weirdery . |
| 24 | It means you can pack in a lot more things in your day , you can work , you can look after your children , you can take them out , you can do a lot of things that you could n't do otherwise . |
| 25 | The new method may prove useful in resolving a number of rather incongruous features which have emerged in relation to the paleolithic cave paintings discovered in September 1991 in a cave thirty-seven metres below sea level between Marseilles and Cassis ( see The Art Newspaper No. 14 , January 1992 , p.14 ) . |
| 26 | The man was speaking two days after his 14-year-old daughter was attacked in a garden 100 yards from her home in Lanchester , Co Durham . |
| 27 | They recall the occasion when , as a boy , he had read in an epigraph two lines from Henry King 's " Exequy " — and how he could not rest until he had found and read the poem entire . |