Example sentences of "in [noun pl] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was more casually dressed in corduroys and a black leather jacket . |
| 2 | The far wall bore a garish illustration of a man in chains and a young woman unconvincingly disguised in male dress . |
| 3 | You have certain losers in Clubs and a good plan in hands like these is to play out the suit in which you have certain losers and wait to see what the opposition do . |
| 4 | We believe in partnership with parents , choice in schools and a good grounding in the basic skills all children need to make a success of their lives . |
| 5 | This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity . |
| 6 | Police were yesterday searching for Mr Eric Cooke , aged 44 , who walked out of Bradford Royal Infirmary , West Yorkshire , on December 23 in pyjamas and a black leather jacket after brain surgery . |
| 7 | A hike in premiums and a tight grip on costs are reaping rewards . |
| 8 | Ford claims 0–60mph in 9.8secs and a top speed of 116mph , so plainly your money can buy a lot more performance as well as refinement in a sporting hatchback . |
| 9 | They included cutting the amount of gold tied up in the refining circuit , reducing batches of work in progress in colours and a new costing system to enable product rationalisation in Jewellery . |
| 10 | On the other side of Horse Guards Parade a little group of people are clustered around a strange animal with three splayed front legs , two rear legs in trousers and a single eye projecting from the middle of its forehead . |
| 11 | The journos were all on their best behaviour , the American woman in stockings and a long dress , the men in long shirt sleeves . |
| 12 | Active in committees and a frequent speaker , he was given office as a commissioner of the Ordnance Office in May 1664 . |
| 13 | Look also at the TVR Griffith at £22,000 : 0–60mph in 4.9secs and a top speed of 150mph limited by its aerodynamically inefficient but superbly designed drophead . |
| 14 | Elton is seeking a minimum $15 million in damages and a restraining order against the producers . |
| 15 | He was a friend of such antiquaries as Sir Robert Cotton ( with whom he swapped medieval manuscripts and from whose collection he copied extracts ) , Sir Simonds D'Ewes , and Sir William Dugdale [ qq.v. ] ( who in his History of Warwickshire , 1730 edition , p. 913 , thanked him as ‘ a gentleman of great knowledge in Antiquities and a special furtherer of this worke ’ ) . |
| 16 | From his earliest years he showed exceptional ability in mechanics and a natural talent for engineering , which his mother in particular did much to foster . |
| 17 | He was a redoubtable debater with a caustic tongue in polemics and a nice touch in irony in writing . |
| 18 | LIGHTING-UP TIME : A break in negotiations and a shared cigarette |
| 19 | He does n't quite go around in wellies and a woolly hat . |
| 20 | He does n't quite go around in wellies and a woolly hat . |
| 21 | Heavy alcohol consumption may also cause gastric metaplasia in humans and a similar phenomenon may occur in Crohn 's disease anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 22 | Competition in the NHS to date , largely in terms of ancillary services , has proved a failure with a major decline in standards and a major assault on the employment rights of NHS ancillary workers , the majority of whom are women . |
| 23 | In shorts and a short-sleeved shirt , he looked almost painfully thin . |
| 24 | Christina was dressed in shorts and a loose cotton shirt when he came back into the room . |
| 25 | Cuts in benefits and a public sector pay freeze are thought to be likely . |
| 26 | She dressed quickly in slacks and a full-necked jumper . |
| 27 | It was Ursula , dressed in slacks and a loose cotton top . |
| 28 | When Melissa reached home , Iris , in slacks and a baggy sweater , was leaning on her gate studying the sky as if assessing the prospects for tomorrow 's weather . |
| 29 | Jimmy , dressed in jeans and a black leather jacket , had arrived on his motorbike . |
| 30 | I bought some lucky white heather and a silver horseshoe from a little girl in jeans and a grubby tee shirt . |