Example sentences of "[noun] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loves gym workouts , swimming and playing netball — she is a leading light in a local women 's team . |
| 2 | It has also taken full control of its Spanish pharmaceuticals business , ICI-Farma , announced a £150million investment in a Taiwanese chemicals plant making the raw material for polyester fibre and trimmed its UK fertiliser business . |
| 3 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |
| 4 | Such individuals may wait many weeks on remand in a prison hospital wing , sometimes even in a cell in a local police station , before they are assessed by the local service . |
| 5 | This chapter contains an overview of the present state of play , and considers the basic requirements for practice in a conventional solicitors ' partnership . |
| 6 | Both of the Deanses have been charged with fraud in a continuing police investigation into the affairs of the club . |
| 7 | She answered an advert in a lonely hearts column and started an affair with this man who had stated in the ad that he was a good looking 43-year-old bachelor , comfortably off , with car . |
| 8 | Between the valves a springy ligament keeps the valves in a gaping attitudes — the position used for feeding . |
| 9 | Nathan Adams , 18 , David Elsom , 17 , Jason Green , 17 , Simon Lindley , 17 , Gavin Saunders , 17 , Richard Whittaker , 18 and Nicholas Crook , 18 , were sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 10 | He was sentenced to six months in a young offenders ' institute . |
| 11 | McHugh , who is now also serving nine months in a young offenders centre for motoring offences , was sentenced to three months in jail on the Customs offences . |
| 12 | He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years . |
| 13 | Raymond Allison , 17 , of Amberley Green , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , was sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institute when he appeared before Teesside Crown Court yesterday . |
| 14 | Thompson was sentenced to 27 months in a young offenders ' institute , and Livingstone was fined £150 . |
| 15 | Judge Angus Macdonald sentenced Diaz to 18 months in a young offenders institution and Walker to 12 months . |
| 16 | Burglar sentenced : Jamie Raper , 20 , of Wharfe Way , Darlington , was yesterday sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to 12 months in a young offenders ' institution after he admitted burgling a house in Carmel Road North , Darlington . |
| 17 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 18 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 19 | An Oxford student has been sentenced to four months in a young offendors institute for supplying drugs . |
| 20 | Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers . |
| 21 | Social work in a social services setting |
| 22 | Emeruwa , a teacher , takes his place in a new-look Wasps back row which includes the former Cambridge University captain Steve Kelly and Mark Rigby , while the former England centre Kevin Simms plays his first Courage Clubs Championship game of the season . |
| 23 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
| 24 | He listens to early 70 's progressive rock , not contemporary rap music — and he wears a denim shirt with a tie — the clothes of a 35 year old trying to get a job in a suburban jeans boutique . |
| 25 | So far , he 's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution . |
| 26 | According to a Which ? report , 40 per cent of menus in NHS hospitals claiming to have a healthy food policy failed to reach an acceptable score in a nutritional values survey . |
| 27 | It 's summer 1992 , a poetry reading evening in a working men 's club . |
| 28 | Wendy , 40 , is a secretary/receptionist in a local doctors ' surgery . |
| 29 | Last year she decided to turn her hobby into full-time employment by opening a shop in a rural crafts centre . |
| 30 | 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 . |