Example sentences of "in a [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grandmother Margot 's pacemaker explodes in the crematorium oven , a minor atomic blast in a country trying to go non-nuclear ; a local urchin loses an eye in a fight at the cousin Urvill 's restored castle ( and has it replaced with an artificial one cast at the McHoans ' Gallansch glass works ) ; Rory and brother-in-law Fergus pass a nightmare night in a hill-top bothy with cannabis , whisky , a rat , two guns and one shattering revelation as props . |
| 2 | The family of a British nurse who died in a terrorist attack in Egypt are angry at the way they learned of the tragedy . |
| 3 | NOTE : I will slot in a slide/video item on this outing during the forthcoming season . |
| 4 | Maurice Abberley , fifty-year-old chairman and managing director of Ladram Avionics , was found murdered in his car in a hilltop lay-by near Newbury , Berkshire , early yesterday morning . |
| 5 | The remains of fish are rare , as we would expect , although Evans ' excavators found fish vertebrae in a cooking pot at Knossos . |
| 6 | Having traded in a Levin Goliath for a Martin D35 in 1972 , I can give Mick Silva , your ‘ Levin Lover ’ of October some further information . |
| 7 | In its most extreme form , this narrowing of the investigation in terms of the data selected and the analysis undertaken can lead to a constructed text being carefully read aloud in a phonetics laboratory by a speaker of standard Southern British English . |
| 8 | Mrs Lovell , who was involved in a hospice movement in Hampshire , chose the Darlington and district hospice movement , which already sits with carers and relieves carers , as one of her two charities to support when she was President of Richmond and Dales Soroptimists in 1990/91 . |
| 9 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 10 | In Quito , a building housing the Supreme Court was reported to have suffered severe damage in a dynamite attack on Sept. 7 . |
| 11 | The city , located in a desert basin with little rainfall , has long been regarded as being among the most wasteful of water resources in the Western United States . |
| 12 | An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris . |
| 13 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 14 | The blueprint for strengthening the CSCE 's ability to deal with crises and conflicts in Europe would be worked out by senior officials in a three-month conference , to culminate in a CSCE summit in July . |
| 15 | Harps face UCD in a crunch match at Belfield in Dublin today . |
| 16 | It is now in a dole queue alongside 30,000 miners , Fergie and John Major ( soon ) — IM |
| 17 | The variation between the practices in NHS referral rates was relatively low , ranging from 89.0 per 1000 in a fundholding practice in phase 1 to 160.2 in a control practice in phase 2 . |
| 18 | Over the past 14 months Dr Rhidian Morris and his partners in a fundholding practice in Devon have piloted contracts for all aspects of community care . |
| 19 | The ceremony had taken place in a register office as both families were agnostic . |
| 20 | Chemi-zorb is a mixture of charcoals , resins and other chemicals that come slightly moist in a 10oz pouch inside a sealed jar . |
| 21 | TYNESIDE-based Mercantile Building Society turned in a 22pc rise in after-tax profits for 1991 . |
| 22 | The very significant contribution RARDE made towards resolving the cause of the explosion in a BEA Comet off Rhodes in 1967 was followed in 1974 by an invitation from the US National Transportation Safety Board to demonstrate their techniques to the FBI when a TWA Boeing 707 suffered a similar fate near Crete . |
| 23 | I was working in a heart clinic off Harley Street as a receptionist and delivery boy when I decided to join the French Foreign Legion . |
| 24 | Some of these might , I am sure , change their opinion as Wheen fills in the gaps and rounds off an account of a long career that began in 1920s aesthetic Oxford and finished in a heart attack in a London taxi almost 50 years later . |
| 25 | Notice that although listen to corresponds to two different lexical units in the visual mode , it is not ambiguous ; the word forms taste , smell and feel , on the other hand , are ambiguous in parallel ways , their senses standing in a relationship parallel to that which holds between hear and listen to . |
| 26 | US prosecutors and lawyers for Imelda Marcos , widow of the late Philippines president , have discussed a possible deal for her to plead guilty and make a full disclosure in a racketeering case in exchange for a suspended sentence , Manila 's chief government lawyer said yesterday . |
| 27 | It was probably on the treacherous PEVERIL LEDGES of tumbled ‘ marble ’ , burr and rag — jutting out into the sea like a jagged nail — that the Danish fleet , chased by King Alfred , was wrecked in a sea mist in 877 . |
| 28 | Fundholding has undoubtedly had its successes , reflected in a sea change in the attitude of hospital clinicians and management towards general practice and recognisable improvements in the management and organisation of practices . |
| 29 | On 36 occasions , the patients were treated with 300 mg ursodeoxycholic acid/day , which resulted in a recurrence rate of 32 ( 18 ) % by LTA at seven and subsequent years , compared with 69 ( 12.4 ) % on the 60 occasions when no post-dissolution treatment was given ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 30 | A 23-YEAR-OLD customs man who drugged , bound and indecently assaulted his woman boss in a revenge attack after being passed over for promotion was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in London yesterday . |