Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | One minute I was in Holland working as a clerk in a police station and the next I was zooming all around the world . |
2 | Eve , 23 , who plays a striker in a men 's team in a BBC drama , said the Chelsea and QPR fans were ‘ disgusting ’ . |
3 | Secondly , s.13 of the PF(I) Act made it an offence to knowingly make a misstatement in an investments deal . |
4 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
5 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
6 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
7 | He appeared before Teesside magistrates on Thursday after spending a night in a police cell . |
8 | Gaby went to work in New York , Rose emigrated to Australia , taking Steve ( who had a spell in a Children 's Psychiatric Unit as a kind of punishment for killing Charley and who knew what else ) with her . |
9 | A GUNMAN screamed for mercy after murdering a teenager in a sports shop , a court heard yesterday . |
10 | The suspension followed allegations that , while he was still on duty , he had sex with a woman in a police patrol car . |
11 | Despite the time lost , he threw himself into his work and eventually , with a good brain and a determination to achieve , obtained qualification to become a surgeon in a children 's hospital . |
12 | Before they came we removed all trace of our connection to television , rearranged the office furniture a bit , and hid a camera in a bankers box . |
13 | It is like a line-drawing in a children 's painting-book , waiting to be animated with colour and detail . |
14 | ‘ If you have a row of garish shirts in all sorts of colours on a rack in a sports shop and one in just black , which one is going to stick out ? |
15 | Her curry love affair stretches back to the mid-Seventies when she worked as a volunteer in a children and old people 's home . |
16 | Consider that when you next plan a holiday in a hills . |
17 | A PRISONER in a police car died when he fell under its wheels while trying to escape . |
18 | Police Sergeant Richard Williams from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire is being tried at Bristol , accused of assaulting a prisoner in a police van at Cheltenham two years ago . |
19 | Robert Davidson ( 22 ) , a partner in a clothes shop , said the huge chunk of metal sliced through his trousers before hitting the woman 's ankle . |
20 | David Cooper , a partner in a solicitors ' firm , was less cheerful : ‘ A Labour victory will cost me £250,000 a year . |
21 | He graduated from the University with an LLB in 1950 and is a partner in a solicitors ' practice in Nottingham . |
22 | Recently , Moore had been commentating for London-based Capital Radio at football matches , as well as working as a partner in a sports marketing company , preparing for the 1994 World Cup . |
23 | He is a partner in a sports marketing company , Mitchell-Moore Associates , and returned recently from the United States where he was working on 1994 World Cup projects . |
24 | The section provides that a deficiency in a pensions scheme that is wound up becomes the debt of the employer . |
25 | On the night of April 8-9 a fire in a weapons depot of the former Soviet army north of Yerevan ( Armenia ) caused widespread damage as the weaponry stored there exploded . |
26 | But every week , thousands of Multiple Sclerosis sufferers across the country take comfort from spending an hour in a divers ' de-compression chamber . |
27 | Normally anyone who receives an award in an Honours List attends on a particular day at the Palace when Her Majesty confers them wholesale . |
28 | It is said that aged three Gauss corrected an error in a wages list , whilst aged eight ( some say ten ) he wrote down in moments the answer to the following problem set in class : add together all the integers from 1 to 100 . |
29 | They met after care assistant Gillian , of Aintree , put an ad in a Forces ' newspaper asking for a pen-pal a year ago . |
30 | He lived on a war pension , having been invalided out of the RAF with epilepsy — the result , we think , of an explosion in a munitions factory . |