Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its simplest use , the computer sits in a corner and each child has an individual session with relevant material ; so inevitably only a short time would normally be available . |
| 2 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotel group , offers the opportunity to invest in a stockbroker . |
| 3 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 4 | He said the 51 people flown back from Hong Kong early yesterday had been removed ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory . |
| 5 | Deportations had been , he said , ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory ’ . |
| 6 | The next day police raided the caravan fsite near Oxford and recovered a shot gun cartridge from the remains of a fire , as well as £410 in cash , fround hidden in a cupboard under a pile of towells . |
| 7 | ENGLAND flew to Poland yesterday with reliance placed in a defence that , like Bobby Robson , has shown a talent for confounding the critics . |
| 8 | On this view pragmatics ( at least in part ) is about how , given a sentence uttered in a context , that context plays a role in specifying what proposition the sentence expresses on this occasion of utterance . |
| 9 | Weddings were an excuse to indulge in a complexity of symbols , some of which look like vestiges of atavistic and pagan ceremonies — a whiff of Pan , a nuance of Sleeping Beauty . |
| 10 | Doctors at the paediatrics department of the University of Vienna heated samples of infant milk formula for 10 minutes in a microwave used for warming baby food and compared it with milk heated in a water bath to 80C . |
| 11 | Winston McLeod , who played soccer for his school , district , London , Middlesex and West Ham United before a strangulated hernia sustained in a tackle in 1972 effectively finished his football career , reflected on his and other blacks ' experiences with teachers : |
| 12 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 13 | He and his wife remember with pleasure one young man who spent a particularly fine Sunday afternoon reclining in a deckchair with a straw hat over his eyes . |
| 14 | The parliament building sits in a square like the keep of a castle . |
| 15 | Yeah probably I think she 'll always be like it though , cos her mum 's just the same , she 's just like her mum , you know her mum got in a strop every day because she could n't go round , down the |
| 16 | ‘ Stop right there ! ’ she commanded , her red hair flashing in a tumble of angry waves . |
| 17 | But lasting influence depended not only on some form of regular , close contact , but equally crucially on a sense of affinity , of common inheritance and character , which allowed a grandchild to see in a grandparent a model for his or her own development . |
| 18 | There were names down the margin , each followed by a colon and a short sentence ending in a row of dots . |
| 19 | The glass ceramic that is used , contains a mixture of iron oxide and calcium silicate contained in a glass matrix which has a good tissue response . |
| 20 | Quote ‘ Chelsea looked like a village vicar caught in a New York revolving door ’ ! ! ! |
| 21 | The Taipei job was only unusual in that it would be a new experience to work in a country where English was not the official language , but the presence of a large population of Westerners , the bulk of them American , ensured high listenership figures even with the competition provided by the existence of other English-language stations . |
| 22 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 23 | In the author 's view the main reason for the emergence of the formulation lies in a confusion of observed fact for theoretical postulate . |
| 24 | Its hope lies in a return to its Christian basis . |
| 25 | The basilica stands in a piazza named after the church , where there are also three small granite columns marking the entrance to the Vicolo Santa Caterina . |
| 26 | A traditional critic may be a practising artist ; if so , there is an excellent chance that any technical assessment included in a piece of criticism will be thorough . |
| 27 | In 1987 he took over Ronald Reagan 's bickering AIDS commission after its previous chairman resigned in a huff . |
| 28 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most realistic possibility for a more reformist and supportive programme of urban support lies in a re-orientation of attitudes and policies within the Conservative Party . |
| 30 | The 31 year old peer lives in a mansion on the Cirencester Park Estate , to which he 's heir . |