Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grandmother Margot 's pacemaker explodes in the crematorium oven , a minor atomic blast in a country trying to go non-nuclear ; a local urchin loses an eye in a fight at the cousin Urvill 's restored castle ( and has it replaced with an artificial one cast at the McHoans ' Gallansch glass works ) ; Rory and brother-in-law Fergus pass a nightmare night in a hill-top bothy with cannabis , whisky , a rat , two guns and one shattering revelation as props . |
| 2 | The variation between the practices in NHS referral rates was relatively low , ranging from 89.0 per 1000 in a fundholding practice in phase 1 to 160.2 in a control practice in phase 2 . |
| 3 | US prosecutors and lawyers for Imelda Marcos , widow of the late Philippines president , have discussed a possible deal for her to plead guilty and make a full disclosure in a racketeering case in exchange for a suspended sentence , Manila 's chief government lawyer said yesterday . |
| 4 | I 'd blacked my eyebrows till they were like tarmac , I 'd put raspberry-coloured gloss thick on my lips and I 'd done my eyelids in a limey shade of green . |
| 5 | Her glazed porcelain wings billow in a gossamer sweep of iridescence . |
| 6 | It also means , as we have seen , following the conventions of the discipline , whether it be conducting experiments and assessing the results , or engaging in a case study in management studies , or constructing a model in studio-based work . |
| 7 | He became completely obsessed about germs , eventually sealing himself in a hotel room with masking tape over the doors and windows and paper towels over the bed and chairs . |
| 8 | The Lawson parameter is this time multiplied by the number density , the number of ions in a unit volume of plasma , n : the sustainment time is the length of time for which these conditions are maintained . |
| 9 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 10 | The basis for DPA is that physical effort is freely expended and wasted in a work context for want of care and thought required to perform a task efficiently . |
| 11 | Cost per team is £10 and following the presentations , immediately after the final , the sponsors are providing a buffet Charity match FOOTBALL : Former players of Northallerton Spartans and Brompton are being urged to dig out their boots and play in a charity match in memory of well-known local player Ken ‘ Nab ’ Pratt . |
| 12 | Nearly two years ago , this page highlighted the condition of Debbie Finni , a 21-year-old Manchester amnesiac trapped by official indifference in a twilight world of video tapes and puzzle books . |
| 13 | The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth . |
| 14 | In a pipe organ of quality each pipe is a carefully-designed and individually-voiced musical instrument which produces only one frequency of sound . |
| 15 | Lord Hollick , the managing director currently embroiled in a boardroom battle at Mirror Group Newspapers , where he is a director , saw the broking business grow from £18.9 million against a background of declining interest rates and increased supply of government , corporate and US municipal bonds . |
| 16 | By contrast , in the same case it was held that once the council had decided that the applicant was entitled to be housed , the right to be housed was a private law right which did not have to be enforced by AJR procedure , but could be enforced in a tort action for breach of statutory duty in the County Court . |
| 17 | In 1946 , when Louis was nearing the end of his far less controversial occupation of the champion 's berth , Johnson was killed in a road accident in North Carolina . |
| 18 | POLICE today appealed for witnesses after a four-year-old boy was killed in a road accident in Co Antrim . |
| 19 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA 's managing director , Bernard Pache , said in a committee meeting between labour and management last week that without doubt he would have to cut employee levels further . |
| 20 | These themes can be illustrated in a newspaper report about discrimination in the British Army . |
| 21 | AEA also contributes to the PWR safety programme ; last year we further developed the INSPECT code , which is used to help predict the behaviour of iodine in a PWR loss of coolant accident . |
| 22 | The pools were homogenised in a Potter glass with chloroform/methanol ( 1:2 vol/vol ) , sonified for 10 minutes , and agitated overnight at 4°C as previously reported . |
| 23 | It is successful , but care must be taken as coat growth is also affected , resulting in a winter coat in summer and vice versa . |
| 24 | Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year . |
| 25 | Again , much higher densities may occur on the chalk , and 14 pairs were found nesting in a three-acre patch of kale at Burpham in 1969 , an extraordinary concentration . |
| 26 | Arithmetic , spelling , grammar and punctuation are expected to receive strong backing from Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , in a keynote address on education policy in Aberdeen on Monday . |
| 27 | ( 10 ) Any casual vacancy arising in a licensing board from death , resignation , disqualification or other cause may be filled by the election of a duly qualified person at the first meeting of the appointing council following upon the vacancy , and members so elected shall hold office until the date of the next meeting for election to the board . |
| 28 | ‘ But not in a realist sort of way . |
| 29 | If the program is used in a field study in biology , for example the recording of all mini beasts in a defined grid square , a combination of information handling and subject skills are obviously developed a the same time . |
| 30 | The arms and shoulders move and swing in a pendulum motion in counterbalance to the legs and hips . |