Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , my passport was lost in a postal strike in France , and the wheelbarrow was not yet ready , Hawker Siddeley having been hampered by staff shortage and technical snags . |
| 2 | MARTIAL arts expert Tony Carter beat international competition to win the top prize in a prestigious contest in Sweden . |
| 3 | It makes its road debut in a revised Griffith in March next year . |
| 4 | And in his opinion that meant sending it all the way to Sotheby 's whose rural saleroom in a stately home in Billingshurst , West Sussex , has made a speciality in recent years of sales of garden furniture , fittings and statuary . |
| 5 | Low-level exposure to lead during early childhood is associated with delays in neurophysical development during the first seven years of life , concludes a study of 494 children in a lead-smelting community in South Australia . |
| 6 | In a non-randomised study in Ipswich among a group of 209 diabetics discharged to general practitioner care with agreed standards of medical follow up only 25% of patients had had their urine tested or blood glucose value estimated by their general practitioner in the previous two years . |
| 7 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 8 | Here were two cups that had survived 1989 , smashed at last in a final appointment in Samarra . |
| 9 | The alternative is a gene's-eye view , suggested by Samuel Butler 's famous remark that a chicken is simply the egg 's way of producing another egg , and developed in a modern context in Richard Dawkins 's book , The Selfish Gene . |
| 10 | He believes England are in a healthy state in terms of players but quietly , and quite rightly , points out that there is always more to learn . |
| 11 | Grey seals basked on boulders in a flat calm in Scott 's ‘ inland bay ’ , close to the ruins of the historic castle . |
| 12 | She was there again when I helped in a feeding centre in Seoul in Korea , when the people came from broken down shacks once a day to get soup and rice . |
| 13 | Indeed , while the new college was being build in Oxford Street , the students worked in a makeshift laboratory in apartments rented in nearby Hanover Street . |
| 14 | Computers which operate reliably in classrooms and offices in Boston , London or Paris , may quickly fail in a dusty village in Senegal . |
| 15 | I shall never forget one which was proudly displayed in a dusty shop in Abu Dhabi . |
| 16 | The short-term objectives for instruction in online information retrieval , for end-user and intermediaries , are set out in a user-orientated manner in table 3 . |
| 17 | I encountered precisely similar bruises in a stabbing case in April . |
| 18 | But once the defector has been squeezed dry of all useful information he will end up sitting in a bare office in Dzerzhinsky Square , the KGB headquarters , with nothing to do but sift through material from his country . |
| 19 | Crispin is a doctor , a partner in a four-man practice in Petersfield in Hampshire . |
| 20 | It is as follows : Simon Rattle is conducting the CBSO , soloist and choirs in Mahler 's Third Symphony in a live concert in Symphony Hall , Birmingham or in the Royal Concert Hall , Nottingham . |
| 21 | 1981 , Richard Helier and an associate were convicted in a federal court in Madison , Wisconsin , of numerous counts of diverting institutional funds ; later they were sentenced to three years in prison . |
| 22 | Heber is serving his three-year term in a federal prison in Bastrop , Texas . |
| 23 | Ted Smith owned a smallholding in a remote village in South Lincolnshire . |
| 24 | She believed it would have been the suitable punishment for killing Mrs MacAllister as the two walked together in a remote forest in March last year . |
| 25 | ‘ The changes seem to be working , and this is reflected in a slight increase in circulation . |
| 26 | Master-Sergeant ( later Gen. ) Samuel Kanyon Doe assumed power in a bloody coup in April 1980 , overthrowing the previously dominant Americo-Liberian elite . |
| 27 | Now he is sitting in a plush suite in London 's newest five-star hotel . |
| 28 | They are in a vague way in debt to society or the state . |
| 29 | Celtic students , if not native speakers of Gaelic , are similarly required to attend summer schools or reside in a Gaelic-speaking community in circumstances approved by the department . |
| 30 | The Ford Foundation was interested in a specific agenda in funding philanthropically inclined research into urban crisis in the USA in the late 1950s and early 1960s . |