Example sentences of "in a [noun] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.

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1 You may have seen the press photographs of Rebecca Ridgeway after her paddle round Cape Horn but did you know that her boat was on stands in a London street at the time the shots were taken ?
2 We may make an easy start with the short circuit and a bit more , but do we not then have to include in the circumstance the absence of a burst in a water pipe at the right moment ?
3 Her 1982 article , ‘ What Is Acid Rain Doing To Massachusetts ? ’ sparked offwide interest in a monitoring project at the University which continues to this day .
4 A FLOTILLA of rafts sailed off down the Mersey to take part in a charity contest at the weekend .
5 Derby County rooted to the foot of the first division , were involved in a goal avalanche at the baseball ground where Sunderland were the visitors .
6 Andrew Heaton , of Wigan , whose son , Paul , died in a road accident at the age of 15 , said : ‘ The organisation was set up in London last February and its services are now open to everyone .
7 With trained hawks like these , that 's like a mother trying to put her teenaged son in a shopping trolley at the local supermarket !
8 It was the body of a pine-marten lying in a deadfall trap at the foot of a tree .
9 Yet he recorded that , when his elder brother died in a skating accident at the age of thirteen , James and his sister , Maggie , played together under the table on which the coffin was lying .
10 AFTER a break of a decade , Alan Paterson is back in a management hot-seat at the Oval .
11 The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election .
12 I passed my medical check and after two days Alex , Chris , myself and a dozen others were ordered to report for our Intelligence tests which were held in a metal hut at the back of the compound .
13 In the early days slalomists paddled a World Championships in slalom and then the same paddlers , using the same boats , took part in a WWR to make it more of an event , just as a K1 sprint paddler might take part in a 500m race and also take part in a 10km event at the same regatta .
14 It does not matter whether the successor and the tenant resided together in one or more houses or whether the residences were all council houses provided they resided together in a council house at the moment of death and provided that the successor and the tenant resided together during the period of 12 months prior to the death of the tenant .
15 He has dismissed as ‘ dirtying , disgusting and unfair ’ charges in Time and the Washington Post that he took part in a gang rape at the age of nine .
16 In a discussion group at the school concerned , a teacher asked the kids why this should have happened between two friends .
17 She made her début in Paris in 1909 with Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , in New York in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera House , and in London in 1910 in a variety performance at the Palace Theatre .
18 We have a witness , however , who is certain that she saw you sitting in a window alcove at the end of the gallery much later on , perhaps as late as midnight . ’
19 The crack pilots were in a hospitality chalet at the Hampshire show site celebrating a successful rehearsal for their first public performance .
20 A MAN aged 20 , not named , was stuck in a phone box at the corner of Mersey Road and Aigburth Road , Liverpool , for more than an hour after getting his fingers jammed in a slot in the instrument .
21 Around 200 drinking vessels , some 2,000 years old , will be exhibited in a survey exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass , probably the world 's finest collection .
22 During the past two years , there has been a settlement of travellers ' caravans in a parking area at the centre of Robton in Central Scotland .
23 The specific route being investigated by the County Council is a modification of the blue route put forward in a consultation exercise at the beginning of nineteen seventy nine .
24 In 1868 he became chief chemist in a sugar refinery at the Victoria docks , owned by James Duncan , with whom he devised and patented several technical improvements .
25 But in a television interview at the end of 1989 Kylie confessed that the pressures of international stardom meant that now she had precious little time to spare for making her own clothes .
26 I distinctly remember , in a television interview at the last party conference , Cecil Parkinson declaring that before privatisation , the heads of the nationalised industries ran their organisations for their own benefit , not the public 's .
27 Brian McEniff 's side took on a full strength Roscommon in a challenge match at the week-end and won by six points .
28 I went to take part in a farming discussion at the Country Living Fair , held in Islington .
29 ‘ She was a member of your Justice Police and involved in a security operation at the time of her death .
30 In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum .
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