Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loves gym workouts , swimming and playing netball — she is a leading light in a local women 's team . |
| 2 | It has also taken full control of its Spanish pharmaceuticals business , ICI-Farma , announced a £150million investment in a Taiwanese chemicals plant making the raw material for polyester fibre and trimmed its UK fertiliser business . |
| 3 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |
| 4 | Such individuals may wait many weeks on remand in a prison hospital wing , sometimes even in a cell in a local police station , before they are assessed by the local service . |
| 5 | This chapter contains an overview of the present state of play , and considers the basic requirements for practice in a conventional solicitors ' partnership . |
| 6 | Both of the Deanses have been charged with fraud in a continuing police investigation into the affairs of the club . |
| 7 | She answered an advert in a lonely hearts column and started an affair with this man who had stated in the ad that he was a good looking 43-year-old bachelor , comfortably off , with car . |
| 8 | ‘ I had already established my own gallery in an old ironmongers in Porthmadog , after realising that there was a market for prints of original paintings . |
| 9 | Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers . |
| 10 | Social work in a social services setting |
| 11 | Emeruwa , a teacher , takes his place in a new-look Wasps back row which includes the former Cambridge University captain Steve Kelly and Mark Rigby , while the former England centre Kevin Simms plays his first Courage Clubs Championship game of the season . |
| 12 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
| 13 | He listens to early 70 's progressive rock , not contemporary rap music — and he wears a denim shirt with a tie — the clothes of a 35 year old trying to get a job in a suburban jeans boutique . |
| 14 | According to a Which ? report , 40 per cent of menus in NHS hospitals claiming to have a healthy food policy failed to reach an acceptable score in a nutritional values survey . |
| 15 | It 's summer 1992 , a poetry reading evening in a working men 's club . |
| 16 | Wendy , 40 , is a secretary/receptionist in a local doctors ' surgery . |
| 17 | Last year she decided to turn her hobby into full-time employment by opening a shop in a rural crafts centre . |
| 18 | Looking for a less demanding occupation , she opened the first Body Shop in a tiny premises in a back street of Brighton in 1976 , selling fifteen different products in plastic bottles with hand-written labels . |
| 19 | The amount of related benefit received by a plaintiff in a personal injuries claim from Social Security can be recouped by DSS from the " compensator " and are fully deductible from any claim for general and special damages and interest . |
| 20 | I obtained five small imported specimens of about 1½″ and placed them in my fish room in a prepared 18″ × 12″ × 12″ tank , leaving them to settle . |
| 21 | The UBP won 23 of the 40 seats in the House of Assembly in a general elections on Feb. 9 , 1989 [ see p. 36462 ] . |
| 22 | In this case , the role effectively changes from one of service management to one of a franchise operation , with Colleges having the right to market the education product or service in a defined areas , constrained mainly by the overall strategic plan set by the LEA . |
| 23 | Another of Minton 's friends , the Kingston School of Art lecturer Paul Holmes , was taken by Minton to see two abstracts by ‘ Francis Smiling ’ hanging in a Young Contemporaries show . |
| 24 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 25 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 26 | Southampton 's magistrates lifted an order temporarily restraining him from entering any Indian restaurant , imposed after he used threatening behaviour in a local tandoori . |
| 27 | Jan Murray , the England left wing , avoids becoming the filling in a Finnish defenders ' sandwich during the UEFA Women 's Championship Group Three game at Brentford yesterday . |
| 28 | Over two hundred people from Garland Road and Felcourt formed themselves into teams of ten to pit their wits against each other in a trivial pursuits type quiz night . |
| 29 | A beautiful diamond necklace which recently fetched £11,000 at Bonhams would be twice the price in an ordinary jewellers . |
| 30 | At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business . |