Example sentences of "[noun] in a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He is now facing a similar allegation in a £100,000 damages action raised against him by Mr Mullan 's widow and three teenage children . |
| 2 | The complexity of an organisation 's activities in turn increases with differentiation , interdependence , uncertainty and as the uncertainty in an organisation increases , the greater is the amount of information that needs to be processed by decision- makers to ensure coordination . |
| 3 | She 'ad t'backbone ti go up on ti t'moor in a blizzard ti find 'im , while you were willing ti let 'im lie up yonder and freeze ti death . ’ |
| 4 | Yup , four EPs on , embraced by the Flop 40 and zapped halfway across Europe , The Frank & Walters still have the amazed outlook of three squirrels in a Planters peanuts factory . |
| 5 | The house was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning and the intruders carried off the rock and pop CDs in a Head sports bag which they also stole from the house . |
| 6 | If the equipment in a playground needs repairing or is n't firmly fixed to the ground , or if there 's a lot of rubbish and broken glass lying around , do n't hesitate to notify the authorities . |
| 7 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 8 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
| 9 | Mihir , a 28-year-old Bangladeshi working illegally on a long-expired tourist visa , is paid 150,000 yen ( £650 ) a month at a manual job in a car parts factory north of Tokyo . |
| 10 | When her mother is convalescing , the novelty of spending her days in a dressing-room appeals to Jane Austen : ‘ I always feel so much more elegant in it than in the parlour . |
| 11 | A failure in an information systems project may be more due to a lack of recognition of or respect for the culture of the organisation than because of the technology itself . |
| 12 | Just days after she had agreed to pay tax the new monarch-of-the-people was pictured travelling on a regular scheduled train and slipping out of an Oxfam shop in a public relations exercise that had as much subtlety as a Jeremy Beadle prank . |
| 13 | The programme alleged that an electronic device bought by Mr Ryan was found in bomb-making circuitry in an IRA arms cache discovered in Salcey Forest , on the Northamptonshire-Buckinghamshire border , in 1984 . |
| 14 | Supplies of non-Community goods in a UK Customs warehouse will be free of VAT until the goods are released for use in the UK . |
| 15 | A TEESSIDE man has complained to police about conditions in a Middlesbrough police cell where his son is being kept . |
| 16 | To what extent was your decision influenced by wanting to be that somebody , to make your mark in a field others had ignored ? |
| 17 | Raising £12,000 for charity in a recession demands imagination and determination , two characteristics that the Amersham practice of Wilkins Kennedy have in abundance . |
| 18 | EVERY breath a struggle , his speech punctuated by a gurgling cough , Alfred McTear held court in his living room yesterday to give evidence in a £500,000 damages action against a tobacco company . |
| 19 | We were in the middle of a landfight and spent the night in a Serb Police APC . |
| 20 | An aspiring university teacher appointed in his early 20s is likely to earn at least £4,000 less than an articled clerk in a City solicitors ' firm . |
| 21 | His latest theatre has included Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Nights Dream and the fascinating double Hugo/Frederick in Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon at the open air theatre in Regent 's park , London . |
| 22 | After a low-key opening day , the Aberdeen tournament burst into life on finals night when Alison Bowie beat Emma Donaldson in a five-game women 's final , and then Peter Nicol inflicted defeat on Mark Maclean in the men 's decider that also went the full distance . |
| 23 | Many toxins are present in higher concentrations in sidestream smoke than in mainstream smoke and , typically , nearly 85% of the smoke in a room results from sidestream smoke [ 1 ] . |
| 24 | Many potentially toxic gases are present in higher concentrations in sidestream smoke than in mainstream smoke and nearly 85% of the smoke in a room results from sidestream smoke [ 2 ] . |
| 25 | On the way back that afternoon she bought a can of red spray paint in a car accessories shop . |
| 26 | Old-timers who censure today 's superstars for failing to emulate the three GPs in a day performances of Hailwood and Co are blind to the advances of science . |
| 27 | It was precisely their uncompromising , simplistic internationalism which collided so directly with growing nationalism and so illuminated the sources of national feeling in a way nationalists could not . |
| 28 | But then a man in a suit heads for the cool cabinet and picks out two bottles of champagne . |
| 29 | Very rarely a dead animal or plant fossilizes , and it is then sometimes possible to see progressive stages in an animal arms race a little more directly . |
| 30 | I mean , being frightened er spooky kind of you know thing in a lot films can be exciting for some people . |