Example sentences of "in a [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour is accusing Mrs Thatcher of dodging a discussion on Britain 's entry into the Euro Monetary System ; they say she 's chosen to avoid speaking in a Commons debate on the issue because she 's humiliated by the U-turn entry has meant for her . |
| 2 | He was sent in a cattle truck through the Brenner Pass to Austria where food was so short that he exchanged a piano accordion ( the Fawcetts , it seems , were always able to find the means to make music ) for two loaves of bread baked from chestnuts . |
| 3 | I placed my fish in a 36″ aquarium with a Fluval 4 at one end to create a fast current ( with no attached spray bar ) . |
| 4 | I was kept in a chemicals factory for a few weeks , but could maintain my running on a makeshift path around the camp . |
| 5 | Ken Shumate ( ASDC , USA ) gave a half-day tutorial on how to convert the functions described in a requirements specification to the objects of an object-oriented design ( including mention of data-flow diagrams and object-oriented design ) . |
| 6 | On the night of April 8-9 a fire in a weapons depot of the former Soviet army north of Yerevan ( Armenia ) caused widespread damage as the weaponry stored there exploded . |
| 7 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
| 8 | President José Eduardo dos Santos joined an estimated 40,000 people who took part in an ecumenical thanksgiving Mass in a sports stadium in the capital , Luanda , on June 2 , marking the end of 16 years of civil war . |