Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may make an easy start with the short circuit and a bit more , but do we not then have to include in the circumstance the absence of a burst in a water pipe at the right moment ? |
| 2 | Her 1982 article , ‘ What Is Acid Rain Doing To Massachusetts ? ’ sparked offwide interest in a monitoring project at the University which continues to this day . |
| 3 | A FLOTILLA of rafts sailed off down the Mersey to take part in a charity contest at the weekend . |
| 4 | Derby County rooted to the foot of the first division , were involved in a goal avalanche at the baseball ground where Sunderland were the visitors . |
| 5 | Andrew Heaton , of Wigan , whose son , Paul , died in a road accident at the age of 15 , said : ‘ The organisation was set up in London last February and its services are now open to everyone . |
| 6 | With trained hawks like these , that 's like a mother trying to put her teenaged son in a shopping trolley at the local supermarket ! |
| 7 | It was the body of a pine-marten lying in a deadfall trap at the foot of a tree . |
| 8 | Yet he recorded that , when his elder brother died in a skating accident at the age of thirteen , James and his sister , Maggie , played together under the table on which the coffin was lying . |
| 9 | AFTER a break of a decade , Alan Paterson is back in a management hot-seat at the Oval . |
| 10 | The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election . |
| 11 | I passed my medical check and after two days Alex , Chris , myself and a dozen others were ordered to report for our Intelligence tests which were held in a metal hut at the back of the compound . |
| 12 | It does not matter whether the successor and the tenant resided together in one or more houses or whether the residences were all council houses provided they resided together in a council house at the moment of death and provided that the successor and the tenant resided together during the period of 12 months prior to the death of the tenant . |
| 13 | He has dismissed as ‘ dirtying , disgusting and unfair ’ charges in Time and the Washington Post that he took part in a gang rape at the age of nine . |
| 14 | In a discussion group at the school concerned , a teacher asked the kids why this should have happened between two friends . |
| 15 | She made her début in Paris in 1909 with Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , in New York in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera House , and in London in 1910 in a variety performance at the Palace Theatre . |
| 16 | We have a witness , however , who is certain that she saw you sitting in a window alcove at the end of the gallery much later on , perhaps as late as midnight . ’ |
| 17 | The crack pilots were in a hospitality chalet at the Hampshire show site celebrating a successful rehearsal for their first public performance . |
| 18 | A MAN aged 20 , not named , was stuck in a phone box at the corner of Mersey Road and Aigburth Road , Liverpool , for more than an hour after getting his fingers jammed in a slot in the instrument . |
| 19 | Around 200 drinking vessels , some 2,000 years old , will be exhibited in a survey exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass , probably the world 's finest collection . |
| 20 | During the past two years , there has been a settlement of travellers ' caravans in a parking area at the centre of Robton in Central Scotland . |
| 21 | The specific route being investigated by the County Council is a modification of the blue route put forward in a consultation exercise at the beginning of nineteen seventy nine . |
| 22 | In 1868 he became chief chemist in a sugar refinery at the Victoria docks , owned by James Duncan , with whom he devised and patented several technical improvements . |
| 23 | But in a television interview at the end of 1989 Kylie confessed that the pressures of international stardom meant that now she had precious little time to spare for making her own clothes . |
| 24 | I distinctly remember , in a television interview at the last party conference , Cecil Parkinson declaring that before privatisation , the heads of the nationalised industries ran their organisations for their own benefit , not the public 's . |
| 25 | Brian McEniff 's side took on a full strength Roscommon in a challenge match at the week-end and won by six points . |
| 26 | I went to take part in a farming discussion at the Country Living Fair , held in Islington . |
| 27 | ‘ She was a member of your Justice Police and involved in a security operation at the time of her death . |
| 28 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 29 | Professor Forrester Cockburn , head of the university 's department of child health at the sick children 's hospital , said the move had angered not only the university staff at Yorkhill , but the health service staff who work with them in a team effort at the hospitals . |
| 30 | The Northern Ireland squad will fly from Frankfurt to Vilnius later today and will take in a training session at the Lithuanians ' stadium in the evening . |