Example sentences of "in a [noun] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robertson will tonight play from the start in a Scotland side who can , collectively , muster only 61 caps . |
| 2 | There were demonstrators in monkey suits and even a man in a devil costume who served chilli to spectators . |
| 3 | She had married an insurance agent — Richard 's father — and later a solicitor in a country town who had left a wife and two children for her . |
| 4 | They grabbed the garments and escaped but were spotted by police in a patrol car who followed them but lost them in Litherland several miles away . |
| 5 | He was standing beside a burly man in a duffel coat whom he introduced to her as ‘ Jack Pringle , a local doctor . ’ |
| 6 | Instead the myths developed , and the media 's idea of ‘ a Militant ’ became a youth in a shell suit who had two heads and ate babies . |
| 7 | The ship 's engines ceased and the crew began throwing down ropes to a white man in a pith helmet who had emerged from one of the quayside offices . |
| 8 | She knew nothing of financial matters and had acted quite reasonably in placing her trust and confidence in a motor trader who had a good reputation in the area . |
| 9 | Accordingly , we carried out Southern blot hybridization analysis of the P gene in a PWS patient who also has type II OCA . |
| 10 | Although some attempts have been made to use interview schedules ( O'Neill et al. , 1981 ) direct observation currently provides the most accurate way of measuring client activity patterns ( Joyce et al. , 1989 ) in a study population who are unable to speak authoritatively for themselves . |
| 11 | Nice gestures both , I reflected bitterly , and both typical gestures of any young man in a hospital bed who temporarily imagines himself in love with one of his nurses as a form of occupational therapy . |
| 12 | very pale , if you saw somebody in a hospital bed who 'd just suffered shock , they 'd be the same colour as the sheet they 're lying on their face is absolutely white , okay , very , very pale , very cold and very clammy , now supposing the doctor asks you why are they cold and clammy ? |
| 13 | For example , the numerator might be a count of people in a postcode sector who have , say , a cancer , yet , because the census and health data are reported for different areal units , it is not possible to find the appropriate at-risk population for the denominator and so compute a reliable incidence ratio . |
| 14 | As an insistent talker in a railway carriage who was carrying a viper in a cardboard box or as a thin man bewailing his bad luck at being unable to apply for the job of fat man at the fair , he provided great amusement largely by the assumption of odd accents and the pulling of extraordinary faces . ’ |
| 15 | He was like the man in a traffic jam who curses all the other cars for taking his road , but he did n't see it that way . |
| 16 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
| 17 | We 're also buzzed by two cops in a police car who spot our New Jersey number plate and think we 've come down to score crack in Washington Heights . |
| 18 | Malcolm Muggeridge about Mrs Marilyn Carr , a candidate in a Croydon by-election who was standing on a ‘ pro-life programme ’ ; against abortion and the medical termination of babies born deformed or with Down 's Syndrome . |
| 19 | Oddly enough there were apparently no supervisors : just a young man in a glass booth who occasionally changed the printer ribbons on the computers . |
| 20 | There were also all the stock characters in an army unit who stayed on when the Pinewood machine swept into the sequel business . |
| 21 | It may however be helpful madam speaker , er Madam Deputy Speaker , if I seek to clarify er when an individual auditor is operating in his capacity as such and whether a partner in an auditing practice who is not involved in audin er in auditing the regulated institutions is deemed nevertheless to be operating in his capacity as auditor . |
| 22 | People came and went , but almost nobody stayed to eat ; Lucy had the dining area beside the counter more or less to herself , apart from a business type in an Aquascutum raincoat who sat two tables away reading a caravan magazine . |
| 23 | A French lady in an adjoining room who understood some English had become greatly alarmed and taken it upon herself to summon the police . |