Example sentences of "and [noun prp] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 2 | In the early part of September there were still hopes for a UN-sponsored peace conference as Oscar Camilion , UN special representative for Cyprus , visited Ankara , Athens and Nicosia in an attempt to bring together the four parties to the dispute : the Greek and Turkish governments and the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities [ see also pp. 38402-03 ] . |
| 3 | Something had to be found for the men to do with their time , so someone had the bright idea of introducing ‘ Cook 's Tours ’ — trips over France and Germany in a Lancaster for any of the non-flying staff who cared to take advantage of it , including Waafs . |
| 4 | Mrs Ross was one of six senior citizens travelling between Glasgow and Paisley in a DMU ; they were in the rear carriage with the brake unit in the centre . |
| 5 | With a companion in a BN Islander and Spencer in an Aero Commander they set off for Botswana . |
| 6 | The rhetorical use of anthropology inevitably involved Marx and Engels in a search of the anthropological literature for examples of opposites to the institutions of capitalism . |
| 7 | So an extra place was laid , and Jennifer allowed to sit between Jill and Nathan , with Matthew pulling faces to amuse her from across the table and Tristram in a flame of embarrassment at having her so near and yet so far . |
| 8 | Madrid has sent Snyders 's ‘ Concert of Birds ’ , Jan Breughel the Elder 's ‘ Venus and Cupid in a gallery ’ and Teniers 's ‘ Ape painting ’ . |
| 9 | In the sphere of education , the Act applies to direct and indirect discrimination ( defined at page 70 ) or victimisation ( treating someone less favourably because they are asserting their right not to be discriminated against ) by schools and LEAs in a variety of contexts . |
| 10 | GATT 's Director-General , Arthur Dunkel , meanwhile was mandated by a majority of the GATT 's 108 member countries to begin a round of shuttle diplomacy between Washington and Brussels in an attempt to avert a transatlantic trade war . |
| 11 | The report , which called for the raising of the minimum wage in the overseas departments and examined the contentious issue of civil service pay , was not supported by the majority of deputies from Guadeloupe and Martinique in a debate held on June 12-13 in the French National Assembly . |
| 12 | The idea was to combine the spin-2 particle called the graviton , which carries the gravitational force , with certain other new particles of spin 3/2 , 1 , 1/2 , and O. In a sense , all these particles could then be regarded as different aspects of the same " superparticle , " thus unifying the matter particles with spin 1/2 and 3/2 with the force-carrying particles of spin 0,1 and 2 . |
| 13 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 14 | This ruling has freed the American media to probe Watergate and Irangate in a depth and a detail which could not be attempted in equivalent circumstances in Britain , where the merest hint of impropriety in public life calls forth a libel writ . |
| 15 | Jackson and Robinson in a research project Pupils and Staff in Residence ( 7 ) published in 1979 ( although the work was done between 1971 and 1974 ) found a gap between pupil-expectation of hostels and subsequent reality ; students complained of lack of family atmosphere and opportunity for involvement in decision-taking . |
| 16 | He urged states such as India , Afghanistan and Egypt to join the European neutrals and the states belonging to the Warsaw Pact and NATO in a summit conference to end international tension . |
| 17 | After just six weeks , Rigby was playing her first gig behind Gedge and Solowka in a band called The Truth , who were obviously nothing to do with the chart group of the same name . |
| 18 | On Sunday morning the Meet president and Meet members will be accompanied by Mayors of Richmond , Darlington , Middlesbrough , Ripon and Hartlepool in a procession from the Town Hall to the parish church for the president 's church service . |
| 19 | He walked around for weeks wired to a police tape recorder , and spent hours admitting his past indiscretions to investigators in the US and UK in an outpouring probably not rivalled since Don Juan went into the confessional . |
| 20 | Cobalt began to Rain and Oliver in a whisper . |
| 21 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer-Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them , you know . |
| 22 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them . |
| 23 | Chatichai Choonhaven , then Prime Minister of Thailand , met with all the Cambodian factions in Bangkok , the Thai capital , in early and mid-February in an attempt to win approval for a new initiative which called upon the warring groups to begin rebuilding the shattered Cambodian infrastructure before implementation of a peace settlement . |
| 24 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
| 25 | Karl Radek , who , only five months earlier , had himself written in L'Humanite of the need to eradicate Trotskyite subversion and anti-Soviet activities , was placed on trial together with his " accomplices " , accused of espionage , terrorism and collaboration with Hitler and Trotsky in an attempt to overthrow the Soviet state . |
| 26 | Figure 7.2 shows a cube of edge length l with its edges parallel to the axes Ox , Oy , and Oz in a medium whose stress-energy tensor is . |
| 27 | She was relieved when she and Sarah met Kathleen and Ella in a cinema queue one evening . |
| 28 | Unilamellar vesicles were prepared by sonication as described by Barrow and Lentz in a nitrogen atmosphere using a Heat Systems Cup Horn Sonicator ( Heat Systems Ultrasonics Inc , NY , USA ) at an output setting of 4 , for 55 minutes at 25–35°C . |
| 29 | Now the local populace are hardly pleasant , as ( and you may notice this very quickly ) they all seem to take the form of disembodies eyes , bouncing skulls and Steve in a cameo role as The Village Drunk , among others . |
| 30 | We lived on the boundary of Edinburgh and Leith in a District called Pilrig and our home was on the top floor of a tenement . |