Example sentences of "[noun pl] in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 2 | They are happy rooting around for Fly Agaric toadstools in a farmer 's back garden until he sets the dogs on them , and would be miserable if you dragged them up anything taller than a caravan . |
| 3 | Like the animals in a taxidermist 's or a museum , with their glass eyes that do n't move . |
| 4 | WALLACE High School defeated RBAI 8–7 in the Sprite Ulster Schools Minor Championship final at BRA to reach the All-Ireland play-offs in a fortnight 's time . |
| 5 | When we think and talk about the family we need to think of the household and the significant relationships in a person 's life . |
| 6 | From the first heights heading north , the sails of the Adventure School 's windsurfers may be seen like pictures in a child 's storybook on the glimmering water . |
| 7 | It was like looking at one of those pictures in a children 's book in which there was a glaringly obvious deliberate mistake . |
| 8 | Am I to sling her across my shoulders in a fireman 's lift ? |
| 9 | Describes the clients in a pawnbroker 's shop in a squalid neighbourhood : a harridan , a drunken brute who abuses his pathetic wife , a genteel mother and daughter just becoming inured to poverty , a prostitute , and a drunken old woman ( ‘ Who shall say how soon these women may change places ? ’ ) . |
| 10 | Suppose I walk five steps in a direction unc east of north . |
| 11 | I like to think of Frankl 's ‘ meaning ’ as being the steps in a person 's growth to the ultimate fulfilment of his being . |
| 12 | I trailed behind them , looking at a fountain , a mule piled high with skeins of brilliant , dyed wool , at children monotonously working shuttles in a weaver 's shop . |
| 13 | When he goes abroad , he always buys a return ticket to the airport a ) because he thinks this will save three milliseconds in a fortnight 's time ; b ) because he knows he 's coming back ; and c ) in case fares go up in the interval . |
| 14 | It is clear from extract ( 11 ) that some elements in a speaker 's personal topic do not become salient elements in the conversation if neither the other participant nor the speaker herself mention them again . |
| 15 | Just as there appear to be no rubicons in a child 's cerebral development , so also there were probably no such rubicons phylogenetically . |
| 16 | If there are Communists in a man 's family , he is not hired … |
| 17 | Bones in a baby 's foot are very soft and malleable and take some 18 years to harden completely . ’ |
| 18 | Although he sailed over with King George , as some twenty-five years previously he had accompanied the Prince of Orange on his voyage to claim the crown , he received only an annuity of £400 from the new monarch , was soon deep in debt again , and ended his days in a debtor 's prison . |
| 19 | They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it . |
| 20 | In the Mughal court great importance was always given to small details of protocol and privilege : the colour of a turban , the number of jewels in a noble 's dagger , the place he was assigned in the Red Fort : all these things had significance as subtle indicators to an omrah 's place in the ranking of the empire . |
| 21 | Its name comes from the cormorants ' nests which in the past were ranged in rows along shelves in the wet black rock , like jars in a chemist 's shop . |
| 22 | Associates of the Institute must have served in a solicitor 's office for three years and have passed four examination papers in law and Fellows must be over 25 , have served eight years in a solicitor 's office and have passed a further three examinations from a list of subjects offered by the Institute . |
| 23 | Lavas are amongst the most harmless weapons in a volcano 's formidable armoury — one can always see them coming , and almost always get out of their way quickly enough . |
| 24 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 25 | Wearside , who host the Durham County championships in a fortnight 's time , have produced a book which chronicles the history of the club from its humble beginnings in 1892 to this their centenary year . |
| 26 | While this method may work for some differences , it will not be sufficient to account for major variations in a word 's pronunciation such as the — and , or for — and . |
| 27 | Thirdly , changes in a patient 's state are particularly likely to occur during this phase . |
| 28 | While shaping describes a mechanism which could theoretically account for numerous changes in a child 's language , Skinner acknowledges that it is a somewhat laborious and inefficient way of learning . |
| 29 | At the same time , successive items on the test do not measure changes in a child 's linguistic ability so much as the development of conceptual abilities which underlie the acquisition of abstract vocabulary items . |
| 30 | These figures give strong support for the view that the RDLS measures a child 's increasing control of language for cognitive functions , but there is little evidence of the test 's ability to identify specific areas of language functioning or its sensitivity to changes in a child 's command of specific language forms or other language functions . |