Example sentences of "in a [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 2 | Labour is accusing Mrs Thatcher of dodging a discussion on Britain 's entry into the Euro Monetary System ; they say she 's chosen to avoid speaking in a Commons debate on the issue because she 's humiliated by the U-turn entry has meant for her . |
| 3 | From the squad the team will then be selected to play in a four-nations tournament at Charleroi , Belgium , on May 1–3 . |
| 4 | He was sent in a cattle truck through the Brenner Pass to Austria where food was so short that he exchanged a piano accordion ( the Fawcetts , it seems , were always able to find the means to make music ) for two loaves of bread baked from chestnuts . |
| 5 | The US yesterday welcomed a proposal made by the presidents of Colombia , Peru and Bolivia that European nations should participate in a drugs summit with President Bush . |
| 6 | Er but then she worked went to work in a munitions factory in Kilburn and she had a marvellous time . |
| 7 | I placed my fish in a 36″ aquarium with a Fluval 4 at one end to create a fast current ( with no attached spray bar ) . |
| 8 | The other catfish would also have to be left out , and there would be little scope for adding more fish later , but if you bear this in mind , you could create a comparable scene in a 36″ tank for quite a bit less outlay . |
| 9 | One version , described by Forrester ( 1971 , p. 20 ) as ‘ a complete diagram of the world model , interrelating the five variables — population , natural resources , capital investment , capital investment in agriculture fraction , and pollution ’ can be represented in a systems diagram with 43 separate elements and various links ( Figure 6.7 ) . |
| 10 | I was kept in a chemicals factory for a few weeks , but could maintain my running on a makeshift path around the camp . |
| 11 | Ken Shumate ( ASDC , USA ) gave a half-day tutorial on how to convert the functions described in a requirements specification to the objects of an object-oriented design ( including mention of data-flow diagrams and object-oriented design ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They 've been involved in a ratings war with us . |
| 14 | A win over British No. 17 , Katie Ricket in a ratings tournament at Alfreton in May , confirmed her rapid progress . |
| 15 | After some search , we had been fortunate in finding accommodation , admittedly very cramped , in a mews flat in Kensington Court . |
| 16 | Just say I 'm not in a babies class at twelve . |
| 17 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
| 18 | They kept the Jews in a sports stadium outside Paris . |
| 19 | Political and legislative change was accompanied by a momentous evangelistic crusade on 1 July 1991 held in a sports stadium in Tiran . |
| 20 | Several thousand gun-carrying Afrikaner farmers gathered to listen to Mr Viljoen last week in a sports stadium in Potchefstroom ; they called for war if militant blacks did not stop killing white farmers . |
| 21 | President José Eduardo dos Santos joined an estimated 40,000 people who took part in an ecumenical thanksgiving Mass in a sports stadium in the capital , Luanda , on June 2 , marking the end of 16 years of civil war . |
| 22 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 23 | Mr Nagdi died in a police car on his way to hospital . |
| 24 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |
| 27 | Protesting her innocence , she was taken in a police van from Heathrow to a police station , near the flat where Gemma was found alone after Ms Gibson left for the Costa del Sol with a male friend . |
| 28 | A MAN has been found dead in a police cell at Greenock , Strathclyde Police said last night . |
| 29 | A ten-year-old could be detained in a police cell for up to 36 hours but it is more common for children to be released into the care of social workers overnight . |
| 30 | He was arrested on 25 November 1991 and held overnight in a police cell in Urosevac . |