Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day police raided the caravan fsite near Oxford and recovered a shot gun cartridge from the remains of a fire , as well as £410 in cash , fround hidden in a cupboard under a pile of towells . |
| 2 | ENGLAND flew to Poland yesterday with reliance placed in a defence that , like Bobby Robson , has shown a talent for confounding the critics . |
| 3 | On this view pragmatics ( at least in part ) is about how , given a sentence uttered in a context , that context plays a role in specifying what proposition the sentence expresses on this occasion of utterance . |
| 4 | Take , for example , the perceptual experience that I have while looking at this bunch of carnations arranged in a vase on the table in the middle of the room . |
| 5 | No matter how pressed for time or strapped for cash you may be , should you pass by one of these shops , with a window display of dummies wearing neatly ironed kagouls and ice-axes arranged in a fan shape round a rucksack , you will go inside and not leave until you have purchased a pair of thick socks . |
| 6 | Doctors at the paediatrics department of the University of Vienna heated samples of infant milk formula for 10 minutes in a microwave used for warming baby food and compared it with milk heated in a water bath to 80C . |
| 7 | It appears that he stepped on one of those box mines placed in a gap in a hedgerow . |
| 8 | The whole hill had the appearance almost of a skull , the apertures like teeth exposed in a grin and black with decay . |
| 9 | Winston McLeod , who played soccer for his school , district , London , Middlesex and West Ham United before a strangulated hernia sustained in a tackle in 1972 effectively finished his football career , reflected on his and other blacks ' experiences with teachers : |
| 10 | Luciani is one of more than 100 prisoners highlighted in a report by the pressure group , Liberty , as being possible victims of miscarriages of injustice . |
| 11 | The glass ceramic that is used , contains a mixture of iron oxide and calcium silicate contained in a glass matrix which has a good tissue response . |
| 12 | A cuticle cream is then applied and the fingers immersed in a bowl of warm water . |
| 13 | Archaeologists have discovered the Jewish headquarters located in a complex of hitherto unexplored caves in the Wadi Phara , six miles north-east of Jerusalem . |
| 14 | The coins included in a hoard deposited at a given date will all have been made before that date . |
| 15 | Quote ‘ Chelsea looked like a village vicar caught in a New York revolving door ’ ! ! ! |
| 16 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 17 | The changes are two of the principle proposals contained in a government policy paper on the Scottish legal system published yesterday . |
| 18 | As with observation , researchers immersed in a context reflect the concerns of the context , while those looking ‘ from the outside in ’ may fail to understand the importance of particular events . |
| 19 | A traditional critic may be a practising artist ; if so , there is an excellent chance that any technical assessment included in a piece of criticism will be thorough . |
| 20 | In 1987 he took over Ronald Reagan 's bickering AIDS commission after its previous chairman resigned in a huff . |
| 21 | She looked magnificent , her athletic figure showing to its best in the tightly fitting black jacket and her red hair confined in a velvet snood beneath her hard hat . |
| 22 | His face registered disbelief , then his lips parted in a smile . |
| 23 | Her lips parted in a snarl . |
| 24 | In one room Frank Gehry has designed an installation outlining his plans for the Bilbao museum , a series of soft-shouldered , interconnecting shapes arranged in a sort of artful pile . |
| 25 | The gruesome response from the Serb-dominated army was predictable — several hundred Croat fighters gathered in a village near Kupres , unaware that federal army tanks , hidden in corn stacks , had set a trap — the result was an appalling massacre . |
| 26 | Middle schools developed in a variety of patterns ; some catered for 8–12-year-olds ( deemed primary ) , others for 9–13-year-olds ( deemed primary or secondary at the discretion of the LEA ) and yet others for 10–14-year-olds ( deemed secondary ) . |
| 27 | LIKE DATA MISPLACED IN A FILE . |
| 28 | The Northern Territory Attorney-General , Daryl Manzie , told the parliament in Darwin yesterday that he was denying the Chamberlains ' request for confidentiality because the claim for legal expenses was almost double the figure given in a submission last year . |
| 29 | She had simply made a mental note to thank her , popped it into the in-tray on her desk and left the photograph tucked in a corner of her blotter . |
| 30 | Before the adventurers can really take in this chamber , a skeletal figure clad in a tatty , filth-encrusted black robe standing not far from the door eagerly holds out its hands to them , one of which holds a hot branding iron . |