Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | The original blood has been blended with the blood of Turks and Slavs and others , but the face in a modern Athens street or a rural corner of the Peloponnese is not a face from Istanbul or Belgrade . |
| 4 | Top of the line demonstration team , who won all honours in a 1991 UK tour , L to R : Dan Tabor ( the originator ) Ron Reich ( the outstanding individual performer ) Pam Kirk and Michael Dennis . |
| 5 | BP is selling part of a collection of paintings used in a BP-Shell Mex advertising campaign which ran in the 1930s . |
| 6 | Hackney-born Ehiogu , who has won seven Under-21 caps , has been one of the few successes in a disappointing England side this season . |
| 7 | But 29-year-old Davey , who now lives in a lavish Florida mansion a long way from the two-up two-down terraced house he was brought up in , has no guarantees of success . |
| 8 | Many homes in the Belvoir Park estate were extensively damaged in a devastating IRA attack on the previous laboratories . |
| 9 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 10 | From such humble beginnings in a remote Lincolnshire village he was , however , destined to make his impression on the world . |
| 11 | She spoke , Ruth thought , as if she were the mistress of a large establishment in London instead of a country vicar 's wife in a remote Yorkshire dale . |
| 12 | If the market-maker of one dealer wanted to take back shares in a specific USM stock in order to balance his books , he would scribble " bid only " over any quote slip the runner would present him on behalf of a dealer . |
| 13 | A few hundred yards further on , though , venerable stone walls sprang up on either side and we were suddenly in a picture-book Cotswold village tucked away out of sight in the ignoble fringes of the city . |
| 14 | While Naomi reads a fat paperback in the parked taxi outside , the psychotherapist ( Mitteleuropean Earth Mother , in a book-lined Hampstead house that smells of the world 's best coffee ) poses questions on everything from Rainbow 's grief at her parents ' early deaths to how often she was scolded in primary school . |
| 15 | In a fiery Commons exchange , Mr Major replied : ‘ When will you start talking this country up and stop talking it down ? |
| 16 | ‘ Eh-up , Cupid 's been at it again , ’ Ben Bradshaw said in a lousy Yorkshire accent . |
| 17 | His memorial is the only one this lover of his fellow men would have felt acceptable ; a school , in a poor London district , was named after him . |
| 18 | Now the lack of more overseas offices is perceived as a weakness , and the firm is particularly interested in a greater US presence . |
| 19 | FIG. 3 In the experiments described here , observers sat in a modified Wheatstone stereoscope with mirrors at 45 deg to the line of sight and viewed the rear-projected images created on two translucent Mylar screens 57cm from the observer 's eyes . |
| 20 | If he loses he still wo n't quit but the FA could be forced to throw him overboard in a latter-day Boston tea party . |
| 21 | I can still hear his plaintiff cry , in a strong Durham accent , before the cast broke : ‘ He 's pulling al me line oot . ’ |
| 22 | Left : The beamed walls in the dining room are covered in a traditional-style Sanderson wallpaper |
| 23 | ‘ Hi , Ricky , ’ he said in a deep Florida drawl . |
| 24 | In a separate Commons debate on the Disability ( Grants ) Bill , which brings in the two new independent living funds , Scott was asked whether local authorities could provide cash for clients to buy their own care . |
| 25 | Mr Ashdown 's personal popularity is also reflected in a separate Gallup poll measuring the standing of the parties . |
| 26 | Take , for example , a homebuyer with a £50,000 mortgage who also has £10,000 in a 90-day Halifax Building Society account . |
| 27 | All those with permanent residence in the republic are to be allowed to vote in a 10 December poll . |
| 28 | Although the company was planning to record interviews with Mr Major , Mr Kinnock and Mr Ashdown for a World in Action special they were to be made in a central London hotel some distance away . |
| 29 | It is clear that a main attraction of the project for its participants was the opportunity offered to obtain a large amount of space in a Central London location for a modest outlay . |
| 30 | ‘ For example , it becomes considerably easier to contemplate supplying across EC markets from a stock held in a central EC location . ’ |