Example sentences of "in an [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , in an American girls ' school , I watched a prize-giving ceremony in which candles were lit one by one , accompanied by spoken declarations such as : ‘ I light the lamp of scholarship ’ . |
| 2 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 3 | Western Legend , off the course all last season with leg problems after gaining four victories early in his chasing career , returned to top form last month when scoring unchallenged in an amateur riders ' chase at Wincanton . |
| 4 | After making her name as a prisoner of war in Tenko ( in which she appeared with Renee Asherson ) , Stephanie has been busy with a second series of the TV comedy Waiting for God about a group of crumblies living in an old folks ' home . |
| 5 | Er I think she does a bit of part time I 'm not really sure what she does she comes and goes , she probably works in an old folks ' home or something , she has a uniform . |
| 6 | As one Afro-caribbean elder said in an old peoples ' club : ‘ It is not only the climate that is cold in England ’ ( Grant , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |