Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Law Commission , too , is heavily involved in a long-term codification project with which it now has the assistance of a powerful Society of Public Teachers of Law group . |
| 2 | There was fresh salmon to start with , baked in a light-as-a-feather pastry , then duck cooked in a mouth-watering loganberry sauce , plus a couple of huge tureens of fresh vegetables and plenty of white wine to wash down each delicious mouthful . |
| 3 | Michael Cash snapped Crusaders into the lead with a confidently struck close range drive high into the net in the 19th minute after Stephen Stewart had cruised through in a deadly wing raid . |
| 4 | Ammunition , grenades , and demolition explosives went off in a deadly firework display . |
| 5 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
| 6 | It also comes in a fetching salmon skin . |
| 7 | In his speech on Jan. 30 at the BCP congress Mladenov invited the political opposition to participate in a transitional coalition government until the holding of free multiparty elections ( now scheduled for May ) . |
| 8 | There was a big picture of him dressed in a fancy cowboy suit and Stetson hat , riding the pony Buddie had bought from a circus because it would n't allow the big men to ride on its back . |
| 9 | He checked her face for sincerity before going to the other room , returning with a photograph in a fancy tin frame . |
| 10 | Chartered Accountants Cohen Arnold & Co ( 071-734 1362 ) have now included , in a revised Charities Act 1992 booklet , a timetable for implementation of major provisions of the Act . |
| 11 | For instance , you may find that a conference for seventy people in a smallish London hotel will work out at £30 a head per day . |
| 12 | Changes in the values of net operating assets are reflected in a current cost reserve ( revaluation reserve ) in the balance sheet . |
| 13 | If the government is to achieve a balance in the accounts in a current account deficit , it means either borrowing from abroad or reducing the government 's stocks of gold and/or foreign exchange reserves . |
| 14 | To my dismay , the whole entrance to Clonmacnoise had been concreted over in a multi-lane car park that was almost totally empty . |
| 15 | Condition ( 1 ) can be fulfilled by requiring the same work-force to work all shifts in a rotating shift system . |
| 16 | FIREMEN found the body of a 13-year-old girl in a burned-out hay barn yesterday . |
| 17 | For £30,000 a year the St Edmund 's Ladies ' College , based in a stately country home in Bury St Edmunds , will teach young women to be ‘ internationally comfortable and active ’ . |
| 18 | Above : New potatoes in a creamy morel sauce . |
| 19 | It went down well with plump rabbit served with deep-fried julienne basket of fennel , rack of lamb with aubergine , and turbot in a creamy tarragon sauce . |
| 20 | So they had followed their main course with torta di albicocche , a sweet pastry case filled with apricots in a creamy egg custard . |
| 21 | When the linguist claims superior insight based on a realistic linguistic theory that yields a definitive account , linguistics could be viewed as being in a rhetorical power struggle with the other relevancies constructed by literature . |
| 22 | This may not be the case in a small house fellowship , or of a small church in a face-to-face village community where everyone knows everybody else . |
| 23 | Since the SADS-L is normally used in a face-to-face interview situation these items are mostly in the form of questions and here the original wording was retained . |
| 24 | In a closed-loop control scheme with continuously.variable switching angle the motor is able to develop its pull-out torque at all speeds and therefore the system performance is maximised . |
| 25 | Lorton followed the lane for another half mile , until it ended in a gravelled car park maintained by the National Trust . |
| 26 | Daniel Samson , 17 , was found slumped unconscious in a smoke-filled living room . |
| 27 | Natural perfumes need to be diluted in a bland vegetable oil — soya , corn or grapeseed — or in jojoba wax . |
| 28 | The employment prospects vary from one federal state to another , but in Schleswig-Holstein , for instance , the chances of employment on completion of training are described in a 1989 ministry document , as ‘ slim ’ , both now and in the immediate future . |
| 29 | In February unknown gunmen killed Col. ( retd ) Rifat Ugurlutan , allegedly for his involvement in the activities of the security services , while on March 10 a police officer was assassinated in Istanbul by members of Dev Sol allegedly for his part in a 1989 May Day shooting incident [ p. 36668 ] . |
| 30 | The current guidance is contained in a 1989 Practice Direction ( Court of Appeal : Presentation of Argument ) ( [ 1989 ] 1 WLR 281 as amended by [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 794 ) . |