Example sentences of "[noun] in a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the midst of doing both the Round The Horne radio series and a couple of ‘ Carry Ons ’ , Ken was cast as Napoleon in a BBC TV version of the Anouilh play French Cricket , with Robert Helpmann playing Fouche , the Chief of Police . |
| 2 | The court heard that while on bail Hart , who was also banned from driving for four and a half years , was caught behind the wheel in a pub car park but refused to take breath tests . |
| 3 | As we pointed out in Chapter 14 , profits are the carrot that encourages firms to take risks in a market economy . |
| 4 | [ 12 ] Most dog owners have had the misfortune to see it in their own pets in a dog fight . |
| 5 | I worked part-time as a waitress and office cleaner ; I delivered plastic flower arrangements to pubs ; I sharpened knives in a cutlery factory ; worked lunch-times in a chip shop ; delivered leaflets ; demonstrated kitchen gadgets , to name but a few . |
| 6 | ( NASCAR ) was the brainchild of Virginian Bill France who formed the association in a Daytona hotel room in 1947 . |
| 7 | These are likely to be more important in rural than in urban areas ( Stanyer 1975 ) but Green himself once obtained 773 votes as an independent candidate supported by a residents ’ association in a ward election in Sheffield ( Hampton 1970:291 ) . |
| 8 | Nick Cave assumed his persona in a dead-end relationship song . |
| 9 | This grant will provide for research assistance in the coding and analysis of a large data set for Greater Glasgow which records every household move made in the private sector housing stock in a sample year ( 1983 ) . |
| 10 | The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop . |
| 11 | In arriving at a figure for stock in a business manufacturing and assembling furniture what questions would need to be considered ? |
| 12 | He and a 12-year-old boy robbed a middle-aged man of £25 at gunpoint in a Leeds park . |
| 13 | Lunchtime drinkers in a Gloucestershire pub enjoy a pint of Summer Ale … a new brew aimed specifically at quenching a summertime thirst . |
| 14 | It 's the latest episode in a success story for Pete , who has no formal training as a blacksmith . |
| 15 | ‘ You have been foxes in a chicken coop . ’ |
| 16 | But even if the Handscomb decision were fully accepted , I consider that he was entitled to make a distinction ; the difficulty of assessing the requirements of retribution and deterrence from the judges ' tariff in a murder case was a sufficient ground for his reserving the decision in mandatory life sentence cases to himself . |
| 17 | RESULTS from an experiment in a salt mine 600 m below ground in Ohio have extended the known lifetime of the proton by a factor of 10 . |
| 18 | For example , an experiment in a chemistry lesson should always ‘ work ’ . |
| 19 | " For a man who can catch a gibbon in a Ming vase it will be child 's play . " |
| 20 | THE condition of an RIR soldier who lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast in Lurgan is described as ‘ stable ’ . |
| 21 | Rose lost the use of her legs in a road accident 15 years ago . |
| 22 | Venables broke both legs in a 90m fall while descending the mountain after the first ascent . |
| 23 | He lost both his legs in a farming accident and had to watch the minutes tick away while the emergency services looked for his farm . |
| 24 | EXACTLY 200 years after the birth of Shelley , a secret diary kept by the poet has come to light in a Dorset attic . |
| 25 | He alleged that inquiry officers had lied about seeing a flickering light in a bedroom window of his home when they applied for a search warrant . |
| 26 | Partnership in a development project : The Teacher Placement Service |
| 27 | Pip then arranges , secretly , to buy his greatest friend , Herbert a partnership in a shipping firm but Pip 's wealthy lifestyle is upset when the convict , Magwitch , returns from Australia where he had been transported to . |
| 28 | Sir Michael Checkland , BBC Director General , said : ‘ This important new development with Thames will fulfill three strategic aims for BBC Enterprises ; partnership in a satellite service for the UK , a new source of finance and the use of the BBC 's extensive archives for the secondary market . ’ |
| 29 | It was also obvious that the Vietminh were running rings around the rather remote and ineffectual nationalist parties who had appeared , as it were , as returning émigrés in the baggage train of the occupying Chinese armies : although nominal partners in the great enterprise of securing national independence the nationalists were in reality excluded from any partnership in a coalition government . |
| 30 | He then climbed the parallel crackline to the left to give Pagan Lovesong , E4 5b , 6a ( try to imagine a lovesong in a Geordie accent ! ) . |