Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking for a less demanding occupation , she opened the first Body Shop in a tiny premises in a back street of Brighton in 1976 , selling fifteen different products in plastic bottles with hand-written labels . |
| 2 | A recent survey of 50 management experts who 's conclusions have just been published in a new Women in Management report . |
| 3 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 4 | This arises when participation in a CU results in a switch from a low cost , to a higher cost , source of supply . |
| 5 | Only in a few countries in Northern Europe , ours among them , is an incorrupt public service normal . |
| 6 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 7 | It is native to Europe and Asia , growing mainly in well-drained ground on hill and mountainsides , and wasteland ; it is naturalized in a few places in Britain and grows well in temperate to warm regions of North America . |
| 8 | ‘ I think you can dispense with the formalities , Letty , curtsying would look out of place in a few rooms in a lodging house , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 9 | St John explained it in a few words in verse 18 : |
| 10 | Because each species has a tendency to stay in a particular strata in the tall forest , they seldom compete for the same food . |
| 11 | It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected . |
| 12 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |
| 13 | ‘ I had already established my own gallery in an old ironmongers in Porthmadog , after realising that there was a market for prints of original paintings . |