Example sentences of "in a [noun pl] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Establishments that do not comply with this code face heavy penalties and fines of up to £2000 in a magistrates court and unlimited fines in a crown court . |
| 2 | But what is one to make of a solemn pronouncement in a Companies Act that ‘ an insurance company which contravenes a restriction to which it is subject by virtue of subsections ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ’ ? |
| 3 | Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut . |
| 4 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
| 5 | The Change Coordinator will record the request in a Changes Log and will subsequently monitor the progress of the change . |
| 6 | These are allowed to rot in a biogas generator or digester . |
| 7 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 8 | Some people believe that the different intentions of the experimenter and the abortionist , or the different location of the embryo in a petri dish or in a woman 's womb , are morally relevant factors . |
| 9 | The relevant fact is that , if two solutions are mixed in a petri dish or other container , and allowed to stand , the mixture is at first a uniform brown , but this homogeneous state is not stable . |
| 10 | What had started as a movement of rich kids in a concrete jungle seized the imagination of urban workers in an efficient , technocratic state , being hailed , in a Times series that appeared the week the revolt became widespread , as the very model of a modern major power . |
| 11 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
| 12 | These references lead to specific paragraphs in a procedures manual where full information is given when necessary . |
| 13 | In all cases cuttings must be prepared with a razor blade or very sharp knife , and are rooted in a cuttings compost or a home-made mixture of equal parts peat and sharp sand . |
| 14 | A more conservative size true radial tyre in a 16″ diameter and able to run at higher pressure would cure the problem but as you have already purchased them you may be stuck with them . |
| 15 | They were both in their fifties — she in a tweed coat , he in a sports Jacket and flannels . |
| 16 | ‘ If you have a row of garish shirts in all sorts of colours on a rack in a sports shop and one in just black , which one is going to stick out ? |
| 17 | Here she is , my dream woman , and she 's madly in love with some young blond boy whose only ambition is to drive around in a sports car and drink champagne ! ’ |
| 18 | ’ New Release ’ will be bottled and on the shelves in a months time and is England 's answer to the French wine Beaujolais Nouveau . |
| 19 | Diplomatic sources who witnessed the incident said he was driven off at speed in a police convoy and his whereabouts are unknown . |
| 20 | It is in section 58(1) , which declares in ringing terms that a person arrested and held in custody in a police station or other premises shall be entitled , if he so requests , to consult a solicitor privately at any time ’ . |
| 21 | One minute I was in Holland working as a clerk in a police station and the next I was zooming all around the world . |
| 22 | Grannell was placed in a police car but kicked out the rear window causing £150 damage . |
| 23 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 24 | In the meantime , the sheep took off on cue and I could hear they had reached the Lion by the din coming from the main bar , I was put in a police van and off to the " cop-shop " ; when I took off my smock and the stupid hat there really was a frightened wing commander underneath . |
| 25 | He collapsed in a police cell and died later in hospital . |
| 26 | It was described in a TReeS pamphlet as ‘ a project set up by Madre de Dios 's indigenous people which aims to combine the best of modern and traditional approaches to health-care , in order to maintain acceptable standards of health throughout the region 's native forest communities ’ . |
| 27 | A line manager is one who has direct authority over a subordinate : by this definition , any manager , whether he works in an operations department or an advisory department , will have line authority over his subordinates . |
| 28 | Perhaps we might try to think of an ideal university tutorial in an Arts subject as though it were a little world in isolation from everything else . |