Example sentences of "[noun pl] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They kept the Jews in a sports stadium outside Paris . |
| 2 | Elaine Moss 's daughter , Alison , fell in love with a little picture-book that one might find among the painting-books and the ‘ join-the-dots ’ books in a newsagents , but not in a ‘ proper ’ bookshop . |
| 3 | It was like looking at one of those pictures in a children 's book in which there was a glaringly obvious deliberate mistake . |
| 4 | Yup , four EPs on , embraced by the Flop 40 and zapped halfway across Europe , The Frank & Walters still have the amazed outlook of three squirrels in a Planters peanuts factory . |
| 5 | But despite the biggest backbench revolt that this Parliament has seen , the Government has dug its heels in a refuses to acknowledge the public call for action . ’ |
| 6 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 7 | These references lead to specific paragraphs in a procedures manual where full information is given when necessary . |
| 8 | As it is , when I showed close colleagues my first working paper ( Young 1979a ) on experiences in a police bridewell ( see Chapters 2 and 3 ) , they were alarmed . |
| 9 | ’ New Release ’ will be bottled and on the shelves in a months time and is England 's answer to the French wine Beaujolais Nouveau . |
| 10 | Trying to keep marines in a 30″ tank |
| 11 | As the final building in a line of four-storey semi-detached villas , it compliments its neighbours and at the same time relates approximately in both function and scale to neighbouring buildings in a mews at the rear . |
| 12 | The words , ideas or questions in a pupils mind — the words used to express a need for information — are derived from classroom discussion , introductory materials , worksheets and the language used by the teacher . |
| 13 | 5.2 ‘ Corner ’ lodgers in a workers ' flat in St Petersburg in the 1890s . |
| 14 | Additional officers in a police van were called to give them back up and in turn became the target for bricks and stones . |
| 15 | There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks … |
| 16 | In the solid state however , most dithiazoles have a dimeric structure analogous to , with the rings in a trans configuration . |
| 17 | Both females were full of eggs , so I put both pairs in a 24″ × 12″ × 12″ tank to prevent the fry being eaten . |
| 18 | In my set-up we usually have three pairs in a 36″ tank . |
| 19 | We 're also buzzed by two cops in a police car who spot our New Jersey number plate and think we 've come down to score crack in Washington Heights . |
| 20 | For this man the ordeal of several hours in a police cell is over there 'll be no court case , no difficult explanations for his employer . |
| 21 | For one offender just four hours in a police cell was enough to wipe out fines totalling nearly one thousand two hundred pounds . |
| 22 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 23 | No question should have more than 25 minutes in a 6-in-3-hours examination . |
| 24 | Then the identity and details of any information passed on will be logged on secure computer files in a numbers code . |
| 25 | For the last 30 years of her life Lady Onslow lived at Notting Hill Gate , and in the mid-1970s she led her neighbours in a rates protest against the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . |
| 26 | Module contents can equally well be a program , a suite of programs or two lines of code , a list of design options , sections or individual qualifying sentences in a standards manual , and so on . |
| 27 | The Clermont elections , if that is the right word , provide a startling insight into the appointment of bishops in a civitas , which , if it can scarcely be called an insignificant see , was certainly not one in the forefront of royal policy . |
| 28 | Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut . |
| 29 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 30 | Representation is currently available for almost all cases in the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal , the High Court and county courts ; the Employment Appeal Tribunal ; the Lands Tribunal ; the Restrictive Practices Court ; and certain proceedings in a magistrates ’ court . |