Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop . |
| 2 | A zoom lens is the visual equivalent of a continuous gear shift in a car : merely by turning a handle , the operator can move from a long lens , giving a narrow view but a deep-focus telescopic shot of the subject , to a short , wide-angle lens , with a wide view . |
| 3 | The detailed results of the Programme appear in a set of eleven volumes being published ( by Oxford University Press ) during 1986/87 . |
| 4 | I have heard people describe the moment , when setting sail in a ship , when one finally loses sight of the land . |
| 5 | The costs of the experiment arise in a number of ways . |
| 6 | The new Water-Based Wood Preserver and Water-Based Woodworm Killer perform in a par with traditional solvent-based treatments . |
| 7 | Lily Morrison was due to have treatment for a hernia but , after a three hour wait in a side ward , was told the operation has been cancelled . |
| 8 | After his pieces have been reassembled , both the driver and the passengers from the offending vehicle disappear in a puff of smoke . |
| 9 | The sense of relief , and the newfound power , of a queen who has successfully produced a healthy boy emerge in an anecdote told by Charles himself over forty years later : " In the very hour of my birth , my mother Judith sent a ring to Ebbo [ archbishop of Rheims ] , asking him , since he was an archbishop , to pray for the newborn baby . |
| 10 | The Minister cannnot intervene in an intervention . |
| 11 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 12 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 13 | He and all his kind meet in a tavern outside the city on the Mile End Road — it 's called the Gaveston . |
| 14 | It was an armoured personnel carrier with a 20 mm weapon fit in a turret . |
| 15 | Topics as diverse as spectroscopy and nitrous acid appear in a range of publications , all attesting to the interest inherent in the subject of chemistry ( Table 2 ) . |
| 16 | It is , in all probability , the last business open in a three-mile radius . |
| 17 | " Feelings Groups " in which a regular group of people in early recovery meet in a group , supervised by a professional counsellor , to discover and express their feelings in a safe environment and thereby gain awareness and practice for the awareness and expression of those feelings in the " real " world . |
| 18 | FKI Plc has let the FKI Communications Ltd arm of its Process Control Group go in a management buy-out backed by ECI Ventures for £5.4m , £4m in cash , £1.4m by the issue of 1.4m preference shares in the firm . |
| 19 | Dracula star Monica Bellucci is to front a major publicity push in a move which could leave the supermodels out in the cold . |
| 20 | A collision between the Danish-owned supertanker Maersk Navigator and an empty tanker near the entrance to the Malacca Strait , the waterway between peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra which is one of the busiest in the world , sparked off a pollution alert in a region home to endangered species such as rare turtles and dugong . |
| 21 | And this is one of the first , on the first day , he was astonished to see , an older male baboon intervene in a fight between two younger ones and stop it . |
| 22 | Mr A is 75 and he and his wife live in an upstairs flat . |
| 23 | ’ He and his court live in a luxury that is as excessive as his subjects ' poverty , ’ Posi concluded , in one of her most disapproving tones . |
| 24 | • Can Famine occur in a county with a Free Press ? |
| 25 | A dry cattle drink in June may be a superb barbel lie in a January flood ! |
| 26 | The origins of the foundation of this great national collection lie in a body of private individuals — the Society of the Patriotic Friends of the Arts — founded in 1779 , under the protection of Count Caspar Sternberg , who also founded the National Museum ( see p. 149 ) . |
| 27 | WHEN the bomb drops , make sure you have on hand enough toilet paper , soap and towels to last your two week stay in a fallout shelter . |
| 28 | It is absolutely essential that every element within and without the trade cooperate in a campaign to resist this damaging prospect . ’ |
| 29 | In another move which shows that the board intends to live up to the word ‘ control ’ in its title , it sent a message to the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road , where Frank Bruno is playing in Aladdin , to the effect that Bruno will not be able to rub his genie 's lamp and in a puff of smoke reappear in a world title fight . |
| 30 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |