Example sentences of "in a [noun] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on the contrary Willie made it seem a prop of the work , like ripe thighs in a chorus girl or the swivel eye of Ben Turpin . |
| 2 | It is not unique to the industrial sector and not even to engineering ; it occurs in such widely differing activities as the construction of a longhut in a jungle clearing and the knitting of a pullover . |
| 3 | NOVEMBER 5 , 1952 : Billy Liddell gained his 21st cap in a Scotland team that drew 1-1 with Ireland who had Billy Bingham , then with Sunderland , in their side . |
| 4 | Just as a novel is about characters in a story sequence and at the same time , at a different level , about many other things , so drama has more than one level of meaning . |
| 5 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 6 | Imagine civil servants working in a capital city and trying to make all the decisions required for running a large country . |
| 7 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |
| 8 | I made one yesterday in a meat tin and so Lynn had a lump and I got a lump and you here . |
| 9 | This right can not be taken away by any terms in a licence agreement but there may be some difficulty with deciding when making a back-up copy is truly necessary . |
| 10 | Today , in the country , you are more than likely to see women still washing in this way , although they now use lixivia ( bleach ) , sold in bright plastic bottles which , empty and discarded , can often be seen in a river bed or floating out to sea . |
| 11 | Only this August , an Arab extremist thought to be a member of Hizbollah died in a London hotel while strapping a bomb to his body . |
| 12 | The cocked hat brings to mind the hapless Governor of the Falkland Islands , Rex Hunt , driving around in a London taxi until the Argentines came to expel him . |
| 13 | This is usually carried out in a London hospital or other UK hospital specialising in bone marrow transplants . |
| 14 | After going to Sheffield University she worked in a London store and trained to be a pilot in her spare time . |
| 15 | The story of Part III begins in a London suburb after he leaves grammar school and goes to evening classes : |
| 16 | Murray Stewart was tracked to a house in a London suburb where a man and wife were arrested on suspicion of hiding him . |
| 17 | The field lay alongside a road in a London suburb and we thought that people could stand on the road and look across six metres into the field to the platform where the ceremony would take place . |
| 18 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 19 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |
| 20 | Widely known for the large painted steel sculptures which brighten plazas and lobbies throughout the United States , and for his regular appearances in the New York salerooms , he is surprisingly unfamiliar in a London context and has not been treated to a museum exhibition in this country since the Tate Gallery 's survey of 1962 . |
| 21 | There are tigers there , and there 's leopards and things called sloth bears , a sort of bear , but they 're actually quite rare so er we did n't see any of those , apart from the rhinos , we went very very quietly crawled under the undergrowth and we saw them in a water hole and they were just bathing there . |
| 22 | Central South helped rescue the leading car of Francis Tuthill and Anthony Showell who were well and truly stuck in a water hole and had to be towed out . |
| 23 | Not only did they drench her in a water fight when she did n't have a change of clothes and throw her on the muck heap , but on Friday evening offered her a roll filled with Doggie Dins , so she spent the rest of the night throwing up . |
| 24 | If you want to carry the smallest possible quantity of water or get the best possible price in the market , the judgements you make are important in a way those made in a water tray or school shop can never be . |
| 25 | The odd thing about this new lava plug is that it went straight up , like a piston in a cylinder , wearing on top a thick cap of mud and clay , which had originally been deposited in a crater lake and had formed the ground surface prior to all the upheaval . |
| 26 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 27 | Establishments that do not comply with this code face heavy penalties and fines of up to £2000 in a magistrates court and unlimited fines in a crown court . |
| 28 | Bulstrode Whitelocke , English ambassador there in 1653 – 54 , was given £2,500 worth of the metal which was eventually cast into guns for the navy ( though he also received a miniature of Queen Christina in a diamond setting and the heir to the throne , the future Charles X , gave him a gold box set on one side with diamonds and with Charles 's portrait on the other ) . |
| 29 | He left Forest three years ago in a £1.5m deal and although he was an immediate success in United 's midfield , the last 12 months have turned sour . |
| 30 | If you want to stock to 100 or 150ml size then ask your local chemist to order you a box of amber glass medicine bottles — they are used all the time in a dispensing chemist and a manufacturer 's box of 50 is relatively cheap . |