Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is now facing a similar allegation in a £100,000 damages action raised against him by Mr Mullan 's widow and three teenage children . |
| 2 | The complexity of an organisation 's activities in turn increases with differentiation , interdependence , uncertainty and as the uncertainty in an organisation increases , the greater is the amount of information that needs to be processed by decision- makers to ensure coordination . |
| 3 | She 'ad t'backbone ti go up on ti t'moor in a blizzard ti find 'im , while you were willing ti let 'im lie up yonder and freeze ti death . ’ |
| 4 | If the equipment in a playground needs repairing or is n't firmly fixed to the ground , or if there 's a lot of rubbish and broken glass lying around , do n't hesitate to notify the authorities . |
| 5 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 6 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
| 7 | Mihir , a 28-year-old Bangladeshi working illegally on a long-expired tourist visa , is paid 150,000 yen ( £650 ) a month at a manual job in a car parts factory north of Tokyo . |
| 8 | A failure in an information systems project may be more due to a lack of recognition of or respect for the culture of the organisation than because of the technology itself . |
| 9 | Just days after she had agreed to pay tax the new monarch-of-the-people was pictured travelling on a regular scheduled train and slipping out of an Oxfam shop in a public relations exercise that had as much subtlety as a Jeremy Beadle prank . |
| 10 | The programme alleged that an electronic device bought by Mr Ryan was found in bomb-making circuitry in an IRA arms cache discovered in Salcey Forest , on the Northamptonshire-Buckinghamshire border , in 1984 . |
| 11 | To what extent was your decision influenced by wanting to be that somebody , to make your mark in a field others had ignored ? |
| 12 | Raising £12,000 for charity in a recession demands imagination and determination , two characteristics that the Amersham practice of Wilkins Kennedy have in abundance . |
| 13 | EVERY breath a struggle , his speech punctuated by a gurgling cough , Alfred McTear held court in his living room yesterday to give evidence in a £500,000 damages action against a tobacco company . |
| 14 | We were in the middle of a landfight and spent the night in a Serb Police APC . |
| 15 | An aspiring university teacher appointed in his early 20s is likely to earn at least £4,000 less than an articled clerk in a City solicitors ' firm . |
| 16 | Many toxins are present in higher concentrations in sidestream smoke than in mainstream smoke and , typically , nearly 85% of the smoke in a room results from sidestream smoke [ 1 ] . |
| 17 | Many potentially toxic gases are present in higher concentrations in sidestream smoke than in mainstream smoke and nearly 85% of the smoke in a room results from sidestream smoke [ 2 ] . |
| 18 | On the way back that afternoon she bought a can of red spray paint in a car accessories shop . |
| 19 | It was precisely their uncompromising , simplistic internationalism which collided so directly with growing nationalism and so illuminated the sources of national feeling in a way nationalists could not . |
| 20 | But then a man in a suit heads for the cool cabinet and picks out two bottles of champagne . |
| 21 | I mean , being frightened er spooky kind of you know thing in a lot films can be exciting for some people . |
| 22 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 23 | In the Hague , the International Court of Justice said it would sit on 1 April for the first public hearing in a war crimes case Bosnia has brought against Serbia and Montenegro . |
| 24 | The main constraint operating on the community relations police in West Belfast is in establishing contact with youth groups and schools in the area because of either a general resistance to the police or fear of intimidation from Republican paramilitary organizations as a result of involvement in a community relations programme . |
| 25 | Ray White of South West Denton , Newcastle , won a fully fitted car alarm in a Northumbria Police prize draw . |
| 26 | Computer Talk , March 28/April 4 Okay , so people in glass houses … but a satellite in an envelope four-miles , or thereabouts , high ? |
| 27 | Bennett solved the problem in a way feminists would approve : by counting housework as work . |
| 28 | They play original material in a Chili Peppers vein . |
| 29 | I used to be a partner in a wine merchants , and when we sold up I took all the best stuff . |
| 30 | Historically tea has been a fairly dull market , dominated by trade interests — two arguments against the London Fox 's efforts to excite interest in a tea futures contract . |