Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 Of particular interest is the series of photographs specially taken in a modern glass-maker 's studio , which reconstruct step-by-step a variety of ancient techniques .
2 Next day , in a classic Boys ' Own move , Neame and two other Britons — Jonathan Tinker and Harry Taylor — set the Sherpas an example by trudging off up the mountain , loaded with supplies .
3 These three ladies , now in their seventies , lived in a Georgian doll 's house in Lulling 's High Street .
4 He 'd once walked out , in a sixteen-year-old child 's sulk , on a family dinner-party , and his father had always chided him about it — it had become one of those family memories that everyone always laughs at , always shares .
5 A young , unescorted girl in a grubby man 's raincoat , taking a 3/6d. seat when the last programme was half-over , upset , for them , the natural order of things .
6 The man was stooped over the sign in a ragged butler 's outfit with trousers that were too short , exposing his white ankles .
7 long time does n't it , before anybody did anything A junior doctor held his finger in a stabbed policeman 's neck wound
8 Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance .
9 The delegates have also been allowed , for the first time in a communist party 's history since Stalin , to set up factions .
10 One of the distractions on offer over the weekend was a ride in a tall person 's car — a 20ft limo belonging to a visiting German tall person — 6ft9in .
11 On one of Lucky Town ‘ s best songs , Better Days , he has the wit to sing : ‘ It 's a sad funny ending to find yourself pretending / a rich man in a poor man 's shirt . ’
12 It is a small animal in a bigger animal 's home terrain .
13 It 's summer 1992 , a poetry reading evening in a working men 's club .
14 He felt slightly awkward , as though he were in a strange woman 's room .
15 The amount provided in the original cash float is deducted and placed in a separate banker 's bag .
16 Increasingly , it has been necessary to think in terms of creating our own learning environment in a separate Women 's Education Centre in which men as students , teachers or visiting authorities are unwelcome and in which women act independently for themselves .
17 Roger Daltrey , all Shirley Temple curls and inflated biceps , swung his microphone dutifully and John Entwistle , in a tatty spiv 's blouson and shock of white hair , stood characteristically immobile , but it was Townshend who looked most chirpy .
18 In this situation , an initiating member receives a request from a client in his country who has already identified an acquisition target in a participating member 's jurisdiction and , indeed , may already have commenced the acquisition process .
19 The tournament is again a Belfast Telegraph copyright , and one of 12 in a European Seniors ' calendar now worth over £800,000 in prize-money .
20 His greatest successes came on the cup front , scoring the goal that took the FA Cup to the Bridge in 1970 ( the only time Chelsea have won it ) , and the following season sharing in a European Cup-Winners ' Cup replay triumph over Real Madrid .
21 The manager leaned against the wall , arms folded , ankles crossed , in a typical hotelier 's pose , and enjoyed his sensation .
22 Young Area Sneaker was the faithful companion of ‘ Chokee Bill ’ , himself a prototypical comic-strip crook with swag-bag and cosh , and in their weekly scrapes with the law — personified for Comic Cuts readers in the ineffectual shape of ‘ Fairyfoot the Fat Cop ’ — he was quite recognisably dressed in a budding Hooligan 's attire : bell-bottoms , flowing neck-scarf , cap set at a jaunty angle , and boots two sizes too big .
23 In the same way that the latter introduces , almost unconsciously , knowledge of the origin of words and the structure of a sentence , so playing on damp or drying pitches fills the gaps in a developing batsman 's technique .
24 Demi Moore has out-styled Julia Roberts , Mariah Carey and Cher by becoming Hollywood 's best tressed star in a recent hairdressers ' poll .
25 Jan Murray , the England left wing , avoids becoming the filling in a Finnish defenders ' sandwich during the UEFA Women 's Championship Group Three game at Brentford yesterday .
26 To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket .
27 Distractions , distractions , squirt chilli juice in a wounded elephant 's eye …
28 Needles were stored in a two-pound Robertson 's jam jar ; and in a long glass-topped case was a selection of knives , scalpels , forceps , scissors and syringes .
29 Once in a dirty butcher 's shop in Hackney and once in another scene of butchery .
30 Again we took dinner in a cheap workmen 's restaurant .
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