Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos . |
| 2 | It was April , and after a warmer in Poosie Nansie 's , another West of Scotland custom , we thrashed away on the Ayr , casting amongst chunks of ice floating down the river ; frozen stiff , getting colder and colder as the grey day grew older and older . |
| 3 | Break a pattern and emerge into the daylight without the hovering angel face of a new In Love ? |
| 4 | F/O Nicholls-Palmer 's shoot down of a Ju-88 in August 1943 is recreated atmospherically by M A Kinnear and is the subject of a very low print run ( 100 only ) entitled Brief Encounter from Artistic Flight . |
| 5 | The IDA 's success in attracting Raybestos Manhattan led to perhaps the longest and most bitter struggle against a multinational in Ireland . |
| 6 | He returned the following year to complete the qualifications for a First in English and a Second in Greek . |
| 7 | Smith was annoyed when he heard of the decision for a jump-off in Belfast this weekend which will determine who will join the team for the championships in Rome later this month . |
| 8 | He started out with a 2.1 in politics and economics from Keele University , and , wanting to keep his options open , decided to train as a chartered accountant . |
| 9 | This was certainly brought home to me when , by taking the long way round Australia this year , i.e. buying a round the world ticket to the Australian Open , rather than a straight forward London–Melbourne return , with a stop-off in Sydney for the New South Wales Open , I saved The Daily Telegraph , which is naturally as cost conscious as any other company in these difficult financial times , a considerable amount of money . |
| 10 | Next day the weather was fine so Maureen , with a 1235-X in tow , popped round to have a go . |
| 11 | Here was a bloke who left York University with a 2.2 in politics and no idea what he wanted to do next . |
| 12 | And there with a written in biro by Mrs Harrison was that small amount , 1 pence . |
| 13 | Besides a hole-in-one in February , Anna also scooped three other big tournaments at the club . |
| 14 | So did one from Balfour , written from a sickbed in Carlton Gardens . |
| 15 | Fewer people had receivers : perhaps one in twenty or twenty-five households in Ajdabiya , and perhaps only one in a hundred in Kufra . |
| 16 | Of course the difference between rich and poor worlds in this respect is still enormous and obscene : at the extremes , 30 children in every hundred born in the West African country of Mali will die before the age of five , compared to just one in a hundred in Australia , Canada and the UK . |
| 17 | My English friend Annie was more or less brought up by her nan in a back-to-back in Manchester . |
| 18 | Both driver ants and army ants have exceptionally large colonies , up to a million in army ants , up to about 20 million in driver ants . |
| 19 | the device remained popular for a century after its invention , finding particular favour in France , where , according to one account , it sold so quickly at a fair in Paris that the stallholder was hustled out of town by the young men of the city who saw their favourite quarry rapidly being locked away . |
| 20 | If we take a 10-year view , we see that manufacturing investment is up by a third in comparison with a similar part of the same cycle . |
| 21 | In an earlier dispute 8,000 diamond miners belonging to the NUM had cut diamond production by the De Beers mining company by a third in mid-October 1989 in support of a demand for a 26.6 per cent wage increase . |