Example sentences of "[verb] in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , suddenly and unexpectedly , in the spring of 1933 my uncle collapsed lapsed and died while walking in a friend 's garden . |
| 2 | As he left the court , he asked the King to visit him when he , too , wed in a year 's time . |
| 3 | The clinical terms project was started last year to develop a set of terms comprehensive enough to cover anything that a clinician might need to write in a patient 's record . |
| 4 | The powers set out in the rest of Clause 3 are standard matters often appearing in a company 's memorandum and , as is common practice , they are broadly worded for the sake of completeness . |
| 5 | The powers set out in the rest of Clause 3 are standard matters often appearing in a company 's memorandum and , as is common practice , they are broadly worded for the sake of completeness . |
| 6 | Rosellina was on her way to Rimini , to work in a children 's village set up for orphans and children who had become separated from their families . |
| 7 | Maarouf Saad , the leftist mayor of Sidon , was fatally wounded in a fishermen 's demonstration and in further fighting the Lebanese national army — largely commanded , of course , by Christians — came into conflict with Muslim gunmen and the more radical of the PLO 's Palestinian guerrilla groups . |
| 8 | My motto became : ‘ I am really a man trapped in a womon 's body . ’ |
| 9 | AA 's in pod installed in a White 's metal detector . |
| 10 | Special resin-miscible dyes are required , such as Epo-tek Blue Keystone or Waxoline Blue , mixed in a 10% dye:epoxy ratio . |
| 11 | The normal price for any given daily supply of fish , which we are now seeking , is the price which will quickly call into the fishing trade capital and labour enough to obtain that supply in a day 's fishing of average good fortune ; the influence which the price of fish will have upon capital and labour available in the fishing trade being governed by rather narrow causes such as these . |
| 12 | It arrived five minutes later when Glenn Hunter superbly headed in a Burrows ' corner . |
| 13 | Unfortunately nonsense remains , however many people accept or pretend to accept it ; and it has a nasty habit of exploding in a nation 's face with effects which can be as devastating as those of a nuclear weapon . |
| 14 | The circular saw is therefore one of the most labour-saving power tools that should be included in a d-i-yer 's toolkit . |
| 15 | For instance , if an amount is included in a person 's income by virtue of TA 1988 , s421 ( assessment in respect of loan from close company ) in respect of any loan or advance , there is to be a corresponding reduction in the amount which can be included and taxable under TA 1988 , s677 ( TA 1988 , s677(3) ) . |
| 16 | The Companies Act 1985 , as amended ( ‘ the Act' ) provides , both for individual company accounts and for group accounts , that if in special circumstances compliance with any of the provisions of the Act as to the matters to be included in a company 's accounts ( or notes thereto ) is inconsistent with the requirement to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs and profit or loss , the directors shall depart from that provision to the extent necessary to give a true and fair view . |
| 17 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 18 | For of course Aragorn and the others , including Frodo , are in their feelings of confusion and meaninglessness absolutely wrong — ‘ infatuated ’ , ‘ bewildered ’ , drowning in a bog of mere events , caught in a strangler 's net of wyrd . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't ever follow me again , Peter , ’ she said , totally unexpectedly ; she had n't even looked his way , and he felt as if he 'd been caught in a searchlight 's beam in the middle of some guilty act . |
| 20 | The teachers reads part of a story to the class — about a merman caught in a fisherman 's nets . |
| 21 | They were having trouble with the close-up , until DiCillo finally asked Brad to give him ‘ a deer caught in a car 's headlights ’ . |
| 22 | In contrast to the ‘ Community approach ’ leading eventually to full union , General de Gaulle believed in a Europe des Patries , that is a Europe of nation-states . |
| 23 | Maybe it would change her mind about the great Prince Sabatini , maybe she 'd ask her papa to marry her off to someone who believed in a woman 's right to decency and respect . |
| 24 | Similarly , if we force them to outwardly behave like us , ignoring the fact that their inner mind still sees things quite differently , then we are living in a fool 's paradise . |
| 25 | Living in a fool 's paradise ? |
| 26 | The Jews of Tangier were living in a fool 's paradise and refused to believe how vulnerable they were . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're the one living in a fool 's paradise , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ He either knew what was happening to the economy at the last election and lied or he was living in a fool 's paradise unaware of the damage he was doing . ’ |
| 29 | Anyone who thinks otherwise is living in a fool 's paradise . |
| 30 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |