Example sentences of "[noun] in a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She says , ‘ I 'll bring your duvet in a minute , ’ and she slips into her bedroom and shuts the door . |
| 2 | In the midst of doing both the Round The Horne radio series and a couple of ‘ Carry Ons ’ , Ken was cast as Napoleon in a BBC TV version of the Anouilh play French Cricket , with Robert Helpmann playing Fouche , the Chief of Police . |
| 3 | He is also the only intellectual in a town full of morons , except for Major Scott ( T. P. McKenna ) and the well-meaning vicar ( Colin Welland ) . |
| 4 | From this plinth had , a long time ago , fallen sideways a tall figure which now lay face-down in a puddle , narcissistically gazing at itself . |
| 5 | There is , however , somewhat more investigation now than in the past , and occasionally the teachers may wheel in a micro or a video player to provide a degree of reinforcement of learning in a given field . |
| 6 | The court heard that while on bail Hart , who was also banned from driving for four and a half years , was caught behind the wheel in a pub car park but refused to take breath tests . |
| 7 | She drove to escape , not to arrive , like an automaton , gripping the wheel in a trance , hardly aware of her surroundings , the road , the car horns and headlights that blared and flashed around her . |
| 8 | Christianity is then a historical religion in a way in which religion need not necessarily be historical . |
| 9 | But they would still insist that induction into a tradition is right — it should be teaching religion not just teaching about religion in a way which distances it and effectively marginalizes it . |
| 10 | The fact that such a statue could be produced , and was apparently meaningful to women , shows something of women 's yearning in their religion in a culture which is now deeply conscious of feminist issues . |
| 11 | Christian 's a fine man , but I can only take so much religion in a week . |
| 12 | Further , the original theory of nationalization put forward by the Attlee Government after 1945 stressed that corporations should be free to take commercial risks in a way that would be inappropriate for government departments . |
| 13 | if the risks in a case substantially increase for the plaintiff , especially as in this case where the defendant was given leave inter alia to amend their defence , there should be no extension of time to a plaintiff to accept a payment into court . |
| 14 | But close identification with reform carries risks in a profession vulnerable to political change . |
| 15 | It has been argued that an appropriate definition of central in this context would be information related to risks and potential risks in a situation . |
| 16 | A secondary purpose of the study was to explore the possibility that the act of describing a film or specifically describing potential risks in a situation will alter drivers ’ subsequent assessments of risk . |
| 17 | As we pointed out in Chapter 14 , profits are the carrot that encourages firms to take risks in a market economy . |
| 18 | The colonial education system remained virtually intact after nominal independence in 1960 : two-thirds of university students studied law or the liberal arts in a country where peasants make up 90 per cent of the population and agriculture is the mainstay of the economy . |
| 19 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 20 | However , there was also a considerable consensus from the non-arts staff of LEAs and colleges that arts teachers were not helping the advancement of the case for the arts in a number of ways . |
| 21 | ‘ The council did award the contract but there is no evidence to support NCP 's claim that the council should put right the defect , ’ said Mr Buxton in a statement . |
| 22 | We have the additional reference in The Recluse ( see p. 109 ) and a further reading of that poem shows that the Wordsworths approached Grasmere in a mood of mystical elation verging on trance . |
| 23 | The culminating step in this reduction is the interaction of two specific microdissected neurons which can be induced to make synaptic contact whilst preserved in isolation in a dish . |
| 24 | ( A chair at the other end of the room or isolation in a safe , unstimulating ( unfrightening ) room elsewhere in the house are your other options ; It is preferable not to use your child 's bedroom , since you do n't wish to associate it with punishment . ) |
| 25 | But it is worthwhile to reiterate that , in a sense , every book published about recent history is of value as a source and the conventional ‘ official ’ documentation does not necessarily occupy in recent history the commanding place which its comparative isolation in a sea of illiteracy gives it in earlier epochs . |
| 26 | He paid close attention to characteristics in a painting so apparently insignificant as the shape of a nostril or the lobe of an ear , arguing that such details were too unimportant for a follower to copy exactly . |
| 27 | Paul had one tench in a net of bream up to 2lb 8oz and two roach both over 2lb while using pole and maggot bait . |
| 28 | [ 12 ] Most dog owners have had the misfortune to see it in their own pets in a dog fight . |
| 29 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 30 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |