Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After involvement in a humanities conference , the Director of Studies/ IS Coordinator set about a campaign to raise the visibility of some of the more basic skills , including punctuation , precis , and comprehension . |
| 2 | Nowadays I am inclined to compromise where as once I would have felt confident of victory in a dogs ' confrontation . |
| 3 | The picture of life in a goods station was painted by Ernest Protheroe : |
| 4 | He delivers the wretched data of life in an itinerants ' lodging house . |
| 5 | The retailer may combine various forms of advertising in a promotions campaign , depending on what products he wants to promote , and the way he wants to use the advertising . |
| 6 | Culyer ( 1973 , p. 185 ) provides a useful illustration of a trial PPB system with respect to the allocation of expenditure in a police force , although he prefers to call this approach ‘ output budgeting ’ , a term used in the UK civil service ( see below ) . |
| 7 | Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes . |
| 8 | It is in section 58(1) , which declares in ringing terms that a person arrested and held in custody in a police station or other premises shall be entitled , if he so requests , to consult a solicitor privately at any time ’ . |
| 9 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |
| 10 | Er but then she worked went to work in a munitions factory in Kilburn and she had a marvellous time . |
| 11 | Many observers from national radio societies were attached to official delegations and , according to the W5Y1 Report , more than 100 radio amateurs from about 40 countries were among the delegates , clearly demonstrating how an early interest in amateur radio can lead to success in a telecommunications career . |
| 12 | Is not the reality that there is a far greater interest at present in a mortgages-to-rents scheme ? |
| 13 | Diplomatic sources who witnessed the incident said he was driven off at speed in a police convoy and his whereabouts are unknown . |
| 14 | Two more hi-jackings , set up by Hatton , who had kept the drivers occupied at pontoon in a carmen 's cafe ? |