Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ENGLAND flew to Poland yesterday with reliance placed in a defence that , like Bobby Robson , has shown a talent for confounding the critics . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | To help facilitate the distribution of mail and delivery of messages an alphabetical guest list is maintained , usually on a revolving stand located in an area easily accessible to all staff of the reception area . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1987 he took over Ronald Reagan 's bickering AIDS commission after its previous chairman resigned in a huff . |
| 11 | It samples on a continuous basis and determines , in real time , the amount of dissolved , non-volatile solid contained in an ultrapure water system . |
| 12 | She looked magnificent , her athletic figure showing to its best in the tightly fitting black jacket and her red hair confined in a velvet snood beneath her hard hat . |
| 13 | Pepper explained in an interview , ‘ When I came to the hotel I was sort of looking for work . |
| 14 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 15 | The Northern Territory Attorney-General , Daryl Manzie , told the parliament in Darwin yesterday that he was denying the Chamberlains ' request for confidentiality because the claim for legal expenses was almost double the figure given in a submission last year . |
| 16 | She had simply made a mental note to thank her , popped it into the in-tray on her desk and left the photograph tucked in a corner of her blotter . |
| 17 | Before the adventurers can really take in this chamber , a skeletal figure clad in a tatty , filth-encrusted black robe standing not far from the door eagerly holds out its hands to them , one of which holds a hot branding iron . |
| 18 | One side has a similar effect to deep black crushed velvet but with a slight sheen , the reverse has a rough pile effect painted in a choice of brown , blue or grey . |
| 19 | They refused to confirm reports that he used a syringe hidden in an orange . |
| 20 | The Great Tower is five hundred years old … to celebrate … past and present members of Magdalen college joined in an anniversary peal . |
| 21 | A Greek-Cypriot soldier was killed and a Turkish-Cypriot soldier wounded in a shooting incident which took place on May 7 , 1989 , in the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia . |
| 22 | pulverized cuttle-shell contained in a pounce-box , shaped like a pepper-caster , from which it was shaken over parchment and rubbed in to prepare the surface for writing . |
| 23 | Eighteen-year-old Jennie Whalley was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes while sitting in a car parked in a garage . |
| 24 | AN electrically-heated wing mirror was ripped from a Ford Sierra car parked in a layby next to its owner 's home in Church Street , Alton on Saturday night . |
| 25 | The New York City Bar Association claimed in a report released yesterday that torture has been commonly used in Turkish police stations and that the Turkish legal system has failed to respond to it . |
| 26 | Less than half the electorate voted in a poll boycotted by the opposition . |
| 27 | This leaves the vine curled in a heap , a condition in which it will remain until the January or February pruning when all but the one-year-old growth is either cut away or buried for advancing into new vines . |
| 28 | This may be handy for thawing pipework located in a recess . |
| 29 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) Unless a licence is transferred to another employee or agent within eight weeks from the time when the employee or agent named in a licence ceases to be responsible for the day to day running of the premises to which the licence relates , the licence shall cease to have effect . |