Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Shelley smiled only faintly , Byron roared with laughter and said , ‘ Let me tell you of an inscription I once saw scrawled on the wall of a low jakes in Chelsea . |
| 2 | For children under 5 in Lothian the number of casualties in 1991 was nearly one third greater than the 1981–85 baseline total , whereas for Scotland as a whole casualties in this age group rose by less than 5% . |
| 3 | The decrease in GSH in our study was accompanied by an increase in lipid peroxides measured as a TBA-reactive substances in the gastric mucosa . |
| 4 | Recently , all our members were mailed with information about a forthcoming women in arts symposium called ‘ Notions of Equality ’ . |
| 5 | Much of the value of the method outlined in 6.1 for converting into numbers the phonetic values associated with a variable lies in its simplicity and replicability in a wide range of cases . |
| 6 | The title is reckoned to be worth an extra 50,000lbs in sales , so competition will be hot . |
| 7 | Looking for a less demanding occupation , she opened the first Body Shop in a tiny premises in a back street of Brighton in 1976 , selling fifteen different products in plastic bottles with hand-written labels . |
| 8 | A recent survey of 50 management experts who 's conclusions have just been published in a new Women in Management report . |
| 9 | This arises when participation in a CU results in a switch from a low cost , to a higher cost , source of supply . |
| 10 | Because each species has a tendency to stay in a particular strata in the tall forest , they seldom compete for the same food . |
| 11 | ‘ I had already established my own gallery in an old ironmongers in Porthmadog , after realising that there was a market for prints of original paintings . |
| 12 | The handsome parquet flooring had been rewaxed , the girandoles around the walls had been set with pure wax candles purchased from an ecclesiastical suppliers in Hounslow , elaborate arrangements of flowers graced gilded stands all around the walls . |
| 13 | Lin McLean , a Strathclyde University student counsellor and AUT activist , said she had not had anyone come to her with problems over a tutor-student relationships in eight years , and that the guidelines were only a guide to help union members in a delicate area of their work . |
| 14 | But his happy demeanour is n't likely to last , because not only has he got the move to a new premises in Nantes to handle , along with the updating of the 300 coupe and convertibles he 'll build next year to use Renault 's up-and-coming 24-valve V6 , he 's also got the De la Chapelle Parcours in his hands . |
| 15 | Representatives from the 22 North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and Warsaw Pact countries meeting in Vienna on Feb. 21 accepted a NATO proposal to suspend formal talks on a Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) treaty signed in Paris in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] . |
| 16 | She would not allow him to sidle away into the night leaving her to kow-tow to an irate Spittals in the morning . |