Example sentences of "in an [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 1200 biochemistry and haematology specimens were examined and reported in an eight day period in the laboratory of the Gilbert Bain Hospital , Lerwick . |
| 2 | THIRTEEN people were injured , four seriously , in an eight car pile-up on the A59 near Hessay , North Yorks , yesterday . |
| 3 | They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in . |
| 4 | They took the top prizes in an alternative energy competition at Hartlepool power station , beating five other Cleveland schools in the exercise , designed to encourage problem-solving in science and technology by and to foster links with industry . |
| 5 | The boozy juror , who is in his thirties , made his amazing request a minute before the lunch break in an attempted murder trial at Inner London Crown Court . |
| 6 | EXPLOSIVES smuggled in the soles of training shoes were to be used in an attempted daylight breakout by more than a dozen IRA men in a top security prison , it emerged yesterday . |
| 7 | More than a hundred and thirty people have been killed in an Iranian plane crash near Tehran . |
| 8 | Total expenditure was expected to grow by 24 per cent to P2,899 million , resulting in an overall budget surplus of P419,000,000 ; recurrent expenditure was set at P1,357 million , with 20 per cent of this allocated to education ; development expenditure totalled P1,286 million , with the largest allocations earmarked for roadbuilding , primary schools and village infrastructure ; on-lending to parastatals and so on totalled P339 million . |
| 9 | Semi-free sparring involves the beginner in an actual fighting situation under controlled conditions . |
| 10 | The system will be used in an internal pilot project in Informix 's US and UK offices and should lead to a major deal across the US if all goes well . |
| 11 | It is recorded that during ‘ Munich ’ week in 1 938 , thirteen and a half new carriages were produced in an ordinary working week of 47 hours . |
| 12 | Some other trials were conducted in an ordinary college room with the daylight excluded by Venetian blinds . |
| 13 | NELSON MANDELA , president of the African National Congress , announced last night that he would attend today 's funeral of six children killed in an apparent ANC attack in Natal ten days ago . |
| 14 | Keep them in an airtight plastic container with arborio rice or fresh eggs , to which the smelly truffle will impart its heady flavour . |
| 15 | And is this why you are now living in an abandoned farm building near Glastonbury , in Somerset ? |
| 16 | 30ml of your own perfume are prepared and bottled in an elegant glass bottle with its own cream silk and maroon case . |
| 17 | Three ACET staff members , Peter Fabian , Director of Resource Development , Sue Lore , a specialist HIV community nurse and Peter Glover , Press and Information Officer , featured on Radio Thamesmead , North Kent , in an hour-long chat show in April , speaking on AIDS and AIDS care in the community . |
| 18 | Kepler Wessels 's young side will shine in the field , while Allan Donald , in an early warmup match at Perth , impressed onlookers as being yards faster than Craig McDermott , the destroyer of India in the recent Test series . |
| 19 | Leaders from the self-proclaimed Serbian Assembly of Bosnia voted for independence in an early morning session in their stronghold in the northern city of Banja Luka . |
| 20 | They departed , grinning and waving , in an early morning taxi to Heathrow . |
| 21 | Dr Varmus said he learned of the prize in an early morning call to his home from a radio reporter . |
| 22 | Rebecca and Emma Harper , 17 , of Alexandra Street , Cheltenham , Gloucs , died in an early morning fire in a hay-filled Dutch barn on January 24 last year . |
| 23 | Brought up bilingual in English and Yiddish , young Molly made her stage debut in an English-language variety act at the local nickleodeon when she was five . |
| 24 | Full-time occasional students ( other than those participating in an Inter-university Co-operation Programme under the EC ERASMUS scheme ) are required to pay the same annual fees as full-time students . |
| 25 | ProTeam , reportedly integrates engineering , quality assurance , technical support , sales and marketing , together in an enterprise-wide Sybase database of product and customer information . |
| 26 | However , even in the present stage of battery technology and without recourse to any of the many new battery types under test at present it is estimated that due to the preponderance of short trips ( this is in an industrialised country equivalent in size to the UK ) 70% of present fuel consumption in cars could be substituted by use of battery vehicles . |
| 27 | Chang 's daughter , Chang Chia-yi , and another official of Tamkang University , were said to have bought 5,000,000 shares in an unlisted insurance company for US$22,000,000 , estimated to be one-sixth to one-eighth of the market price . |
| 28 | In an anxious world serenity as cause of heightened anxiety , he wrote , and Goldberg , seizing his felt-tip pen , bent over the typewriter and wrote in the margin anxiety ? serenity ? |
| 29 | The presence of officers at groups of councillors organised on political lines raises in an acute form question of the correct relationship that should exist between them . |
| 30 | Between a third and a half of all short-term in-patient beds are occupied by people with nowhere suitable to go , and it is not uncommon for patients to stay in an acute hospital bed for one or two years when they should have been discharged for continued treatment in a more appropriate domestic environment within three months of their admission . |