Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take , for example , the perceptual experience that I have while looking at this bunch of carnations arranged in a vase on the table in the middle of the room . |
| 2 | One fox was caught , too far away for the riders to see in a day of little incident . |
| 3 | No matter how pressed for time or strapped for cash you may be , should you pass by one of these shops , with a window display of dummies wearing neatly ironed kagouls and ice-axes arranged in a fan shape round a rucksack , you will go inside and not leave until you have purchased a pair of thick socks . |
| 4 | Mark Robins bamboozled two defenders to whip in a cross which make-shift striker Rob Newman headed past England keeper Chris Woods . |
| 5 | It appears that he stepped on one of those box mines placed in a gap in a hedgerow . |
| 6 | The whole hill had the appearance almost of a skull , the apertures like teeth exposed in a grin and black with decay . |
| 7 | UK corporates might find it attractive at times to borrow in a currency other than sterling ( most commonly US dollars ) through such a programme and fully hedge the proceeds into sterling , hence creating a synthetic SCP . |
| 8 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 9 | Luciani is one of more than 100 prisoners highlighted in a report by the pressure group , Liberty , as being possible victims of miscarriages of injustice . |
| 10 | Then , larger than life , so vivid she might almost have reached out and touched herself , there she was , transformed , hardly recognizable : teeth bared in a grin of manic glee , her eyes white-hot and blazing like a berserk android in a film she had seen once . |
| 11 | She slowed , reading what he had written , then stopped , her teeth bared in a smile . |
| 12 | A cuticle cream is then applied and the fingers immersed in a bowl of warm water . |
| 13 | The development of the exchange , from a meeting place for buyers and sellers , to futures trading in a pit or ring leads logically to the assumption that every member of the floor should be aware of the prevailing price of business being done and have an equal opportunity to participate in it . |
| 14 | A number of their linguistic products appear in a form which incorporates a speech facility while some variants of the Spell Master and Word Master compress the products to the size of credit cards . |
| 15 | The coins included in a hoard deposited at a given date will all have been made before that date . |
| 16 | The changes are two of the principle proposals contained in a government policy paper on the Scottish legal system published yesterday . |
| 17 | As with observation , researchers immersed in a context reflect the concerns of the context , while those looking ‘ from the outside in ’ may fail to understand the importance of particular events . |
| 18 | Many of the relevant rules appear in a Code of Practice which was circulated to the police when the Act came into force . |
| 19 | THE secret of ANTA 's success with its tartan products lies in a combination of traditional design with simple shapes . |
| 20 | This advantage is somewhat abstract , but can be expressed as a more concrete example : it would be easy to write a tool that extracted all the book titles referenced in a document . |
| 21 | His warm , dark-brown eyes twinkled in a square , handsome face , and he had what his father had always referred to as an honest demeanour . |
| 22 | Blue eyes twinkled in a face the colour of burned chalk . |
| 23 | His face registered disbelief , then his lips parted in a smile . |
| 24 | Her lips parted in a snarl . |
| 25 | He moved away from her and started the car , his dark eyes gleaming in a way that sent a delicious shudder tiptoeing along her spine . |
| 26 | In one room Frank Gehry has designed an installation outlining his plans for the Bilbao museum , a series of soft-shouldered , interconnecting shapes arranged in a sort of artful pile . |
| 27 | The gruesome response from the Serb-dominated army was predictable — several hundred Croat fighters gathered in a village near Kupres , unaware that federal army tanks , hidden in corn stacks , had set a trap — the result was an appalling massacre . |
| 28 | Middle schools developed in a variety of patterns ; some catered for 8–12-year-olds ( deemed primary ) , others for 9–13-year-olds ( deemed primary or secondary at the discretion of the LEA ) and yet others for 10–14-year-olds ( deemed secondary ) . |
| 29 | Massalia had been in direct contact with the Celts at least since the fifth century B.C. The Jews lived in a region where Greek mercenaries were often stationed and Greek merchants often called . |
| 30 | Glass vessels appear in a variety of forms in graves and were classified by Harden ( 1956b ) into eleven types divided into three chronological groups , which have since been extended and reviewed ( Harden 1978 ) . |