Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they are ambitious : while the job is regarded as important and worthwhile , it is for them , only a first step in a pollution control career , even though the present organizational structure of the agencies provokes anxieties about the limited prospects of promotion . |
| 2 | Eleven people were killed and 29 injured on Aug. 18 in a terrorist bomb attack on a bus in Chintpurni , just over the border in the state of Himachal Pradesh . |
| 3 | British Aerospace worker Leonard Phillips , injured in a terrorist bomb attack on a tourist bus in Egypt , defiantly carried on with his holiday yesterday after leaving hospital in Cairo . |
| 4 | This man plays in a performance art band whose antics include forcibly kidnapping members of the audience , tying them to chairs and emptying entire trashcans full of fake vomit over their heads . |
| 5 | The fact that the charge is one of capital murder does not exclude that possibility : Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1935 ] A.C. 462 , 482–483 , per Viscount Sankey L.C. , a decision of the House of Lords which was noted in the judgment of this Board in Anderson v. The Queen [ 1972 ] A.C. 100 , where both the Court of Appeal in Jamaica and the Board applied the proviso in a capital murder case ( see also People v. Rosario , 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 , in which the proviso was applied ) . |
| 6 | It is especially difficult to keep off when both partners in a relationship use heroin . |
| 7 | Some of the equipment used in a sea bed survey of the English Channel in relation to a proposed tunnel between England and France , was made and tested at Crondall . |
| 8 | The concentrations of freon eleven and freon twelve dissolved in surface waters have both increased dramatically since nineteen fifty but not by the same amount and so measuring their ratio in a sea water sample will tell us how old the water is . |
| 9 | FIG. 3 Fertilization calcium wave in a sea urchin egg observed by confocal microscopy using the fluorescent-indicator fluo-3 . |
| 10 | Or is it more like feeding time in a wartime army canteen ? |
| 11 | It was actually against Brighton ( 10–1 ) , here at Selhurst Park on 3 January 1942 in a wartime London League match , but even so , there can be few , if any , other players whose careers began so early and so explosively . |
| 12 | It regarded attention to social policies as one of the conditions of its involvement in a wartime coalition government . |
| 13 | A cliff path walk affords views of Burgh Island , to which Agatha Christie escaped to write in a cliff top gazebo — Evil Under the Sun was set on this 26 acre private island . |
| 14 | Indulge yourself in a gourmet food weekend at The Black Swan in Helmsley , Yorkshire . |
| 15 | Here we describe geochemical and microbiological studies which suggest that contemporary formation of siderite concretions in a salt-marsh sediment results from the activity of sulphate-reducing bacteria . |
| 16 | The line of a jaw , the curve of a breast , the way the hair falls just so : as well as this potent mix of stored physical ideals — what Simonde de Beauvoir called ‘ incandescence ’ — you are , like it or not , influenced by fundamental programming which dictates that , while the ‘ higher ’ processes of your mind dicker around in a gadfly twentieth-century way , the areas of the brain that control instinctive behaviour are looking for a mate , a woman of energy and physical alertness : a good breeder . |
| 17 | In a caste stratification system — traditional India provides the most complete version — an individual 's position totally depends on those status attributes ascribed by birth rather than on any which are achieved during the course of one 's life . |
| 18 | In a roll-call vote Umalatova 's proposal was defeated by 1,288 to 426 , with 182 abstentions . |
| 19 | For the purposes of postlabelling , a volume of DNA solution containing 5 µg DNA was evaporated to dryness in a Univap rotor evaporator ( Uniscience , Cambridge , UK ) and digested to mononucleotides with micrococcal nuclease ( Sigma , Poole , UK ) and spleen phosphodiesterase ( Boehringer , Lewes , UK ) . |
| 20 | What are the others keeping your arm or keeping your arms crossed , or in a fig leaf position . |
| 21 | IN a shock move Wirral Council is being urged to abandon plans for a flagship site which offers the area 's best hope of attracting new industrial investment . |
| 22 | Like the trio of drinkers he meets in a Co Waterford pub who call themselves the KGB — because their surnames are Kelly , Gallagher and Boland . |
| 23 | CLERGYMEN have been condemned for failing in their duty to help stamp out under-age and open-air drinking in a Co Tyrone town . |
| 24 | She lived in a first-floor council flat with her husband , Alex , who was admitted to hospital as an emergency with a gangrenous left foot three weeks after my visits began . |
| 25 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 26 | The old Nuda ramp from Swanick is now in a pub car park . |
| 27 | The court heard that while on bail Hart , who was also banned from driving for four and a half years , was caught behind the wheel in a pub car park but refused to take breath tests . |
| 28 | If you want to talk to gardeners it 's cheaper to address them on the gardening page of a newspaper or in a specialist gardening magazine than on television . |
| 29 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 30 | Ray discovered that his exploits had been recorded in a specialist fishing magazine . |