Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no reserve football in Italy it 's hard for Milan to keep all their stars happy but , with Burlusconi having pumped £50m into a club which as £15m in debt when he arrived seven years ago , there are few grumbles on the terraces . |
| 2 | Crossing a muddy field in semi-darkness I am surprised to hear voices , sounding like Canadian voices . |
| 3 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 4 | During the British mandate in Palestine he was a leading member of Irgun . |
| 5 | When Emmeline Pankhurst was tried at the Old Bailey in April she drew attention to the white slavery issue in her speech from the dock . |
| 6 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 7 | Following German intervention in Spain he solved the Spanish military code and collaborated with the French on Italian naval codes used in Abyssinia . |
| 8 | But he said loyalist terrorists ‘ sullied the terms Protestant , unionist , Northern Ireland and British while in reality they are pagans , no friends of Northern Ireland and in the end enemies of all its people . |
| 9 | But in an announcement made at the High Court in London it 's agreed to pay compensation on the basis of 85 percent liability . |
| 10 | Since words in the closed class have a syntactic rather than a semantic role in utterances they are also known as function words . |
| 11 | While teachers command social respect in Nicaragua they are not near the top of the salary league — for example , at the same period a surgeon would receive about US$40 a month and a miner about US$80 . |
| 12 | They say if they are barred from Skinnergate and High Row in Darlington it will force them towards the hazardous roundabouts on the inner ring road . |
| 13 | To place a detailed analysis in context it is necessary to look at trends in key figures over a number of years and to make comparisons with other firms in the same industry . |
| 14 | It is therefore hardly surprising that there are firms which have chosen to take out what is effectively ‘ protective authorisation ’ ; in other words , while they have no intention of conducting any investment business , they regard authorisation as a sensible precaution in case they inadvertently slip into it . |
| 15 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |
| 16 | After moving into a suburban villa in Norwich he fell behind with his mortgage payments and had to turn to his new club for a £19,000 loan to prevent the building society from repossessing his home . |
| 17 | ‘ It should be every professional 's dream to play at Wembley but if players do n't have the right attitude in training you ca n't consider them . |
| 18 | Nine ladies dancing he decided perhaps that she had ordered the extra milk in case they got thirsty . |
| 19 | The proviso set out below may be a fair compromise : PROVIDED THAT in so doing the Landlord shall cause as little inconvenience or disturbance to the Tenant as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances and shall not prohibit or unreasonably interfere with or prevent the use of the Premises for the Permitted User In addition it may be as well for the tenant to stipulate in such a provision that any development of neighbouring or adjoining premises should not include the building of which the premises form part unless of course adequate safeguards are included to ensure that the premises do not suffer as a result . |
| 20 | He is able to run his part-time practice in Leyburn he worked in Darlington and Richmond before that around the racing calendar . |
| 21 | And it may not be automatically obvious that whereas in some dictionaries " accountable " will be a separate entry in others it will appear under the general entry of " account " . |
| 22 | We 'll take a packed lunch in case we do n't encounter a suitable place to eat . ’ |
| 23 | During its annual meeting in Brussels we prepared and presented the main resolution on ‘ Subsidiarity and the Environment ’ . |
| 24 | This column is noted as ‘ not applicable ’ for Kremer colour pastes from AP Fitzpatrick ; this is because although these colours are pure pigment in oil they are not finely ground . |
| 25 | This column is noted as ‘ not applicable ’ for Kremer colour pastes from AP Fitzpatrick ; this is because although these colours are pure pigment in oil they are not finely ground . |
| 26 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 27 | phrases such as ‘ Korea is a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan ’ were commonly used to denote Korea 's strategic significance , and of all the varying motivations governing Japanese policy in Asia it was the issue of national defence which was most crucial at this time . |
| 28 | Okay , they 're poor paid , but at least they would have the pride of saying that they 've got a job whereas the elderly are having to just sit at home and turning down their fires and turning down their central heating in case they ca n't afford their bills ! |
| 29 | She 'd had to buy all her guides Coca Cola from guiding funds , and send them home early in a hired bus in case they electrocuted themselves storming the gates of Eldercombe Manor in search of Dancer . |
| 30 | If there is a serious malaise in society it will need growth in ‘ social education ’ opportunities as well as ‘ social work ’ aftercare . |