Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diplomatic sources who witnessed the incident said he was driven off at speed in a police convoy and his whereabouts are unknown . |
| 2 | The areal interpolation problem : estimating population using remote sensing in a GIS framework |
| 3 | The objective is to identify and handle the effects of data uncertainty in a GIS by defining uncertainty envelopes to create ‘ credibility regions ’ around the results . |
| 4 | Spreadeagled on the roof of the car in a scissors or St Andrew 's Cross position , he concentrated on holding on and not losing his balance as the train gathered speed under the shadow of the Westway and rocked past the desolate terraces of north Kensington . |
| 5 | It would prevent our living in a fools ' paradise of false prosperity . |
| 6 | But what is one to make of a solemn pronouncement in a Companies Act that ‘ an insurance company which contravenes a restriction to which it is subject by virtue of subsections ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ’ ? |
| 7 | Walter gave crack sprinter Sheikh Albadou a spin yesterday morning and he flies to New York to ride the horse in a pre-Breeders Cup race on Saturday week . |
| 8 | ( Now thanks to Nancy Barclay 's resourcefulness and the generosity of her employers we are storing books for Christian Aid in a lawyers ' office until Mrs. Paton 's cellar is ready again ) . |
| 9 | Stuart Carter had been a caring and loving father while exercising considerable skill in a steelworks . |
| 10 | The group said it had continued to expand its stake in a pharmaceuticals market estimated to have increased by 11 to 12 per cent in 1992 . |
| 11 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 12 | They met after care assistant Gillian , of Aintree , put an ad in a Forces ' newspaper asking for a pen-pal a year ago . |
| 13 | It is said that aged three Gauss corrected an error in a wages list , whilst aged eight ( some say ten ) he wrote down in moments the answer to the following problem set in class : add together all the integers from 1 to 100 . |
| 14 | It is believed Stavridis told the judge in a behind-closed-doors grilling that the pilot was directing him from shore . |
| 15 | Er but then she worked went to work in a munitions factory in Kilburn and she had a marvellous time . |
| 16 | She also did voluntary work in a girls ' club , which brought her into contact with the local women 's trade union council , the Women 's Co-operative Guild , and ultimately the Labour party . |
| 17 | Nor should the issues and problems examined here be allowed to overshadow the fact that 15,000 people in the UK are experiencing great satisfaction , involvement and a sense of achievement within their communities through their work in a Citizens Advice Bureau . |
| 18 | An orientation towards the pressures in the CAB today makes the reiteration of the opening words important : that problems must not be allowed to overshadow the fact that 15,000 people in the UK are experiencing satisfaction , involvement and a sense of achievement within their communities through their work in a Citizens Advice Bureau . |
| 19 | A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital . |
| 20 | May I , through your august columns , apologise to all those climbers who have tried to locate MOT-While-U-Wait-Garage Crag , Selside , Cumbria , credited as my discovery in a Lakes Report . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , the ti bon ange is usually brought to the corps cadavre in a canari — a protective clay jar . ’ |
| 22 | The other catfish would also have to be left out , and there would be little scope for adding more fish later , but if you bear this in mind , you could create a comparable scene in a 36″ tank for quite a bit less outlay . |
| 23 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
| 24 | He had sent Mrs Brocklebank home in a police car , and the headmaster of the boy 's school had taken charge of the boy . |
| 25 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 26 | She has an excellent place in a girls ’ boarding-school in Worcestershire . ’ |
| 27 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 28 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 29 | Staff and parents need to be strongly motivated to seek an integrated placement in a children 's day centre or nursery school . |
| 30 | Todd Haynes ' Poison is , in part , a celebration of death and desire in a men 's prison . |