Example sentences of "in a [noun] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys , in one of his less endearing passages , describes witnessing the chilling effects of this toxin being given experimentally to a hapless dog in a London gentleman 's club . |
| 2 | In a London wheelwright 's family the grandmother had a crucial influence , in particular because the mother was ‘ very prudish ’ on sexual matters . |
| 3 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 4 | When he was 3 years old , Fashanu was taken from his mother and placed in a Dr Barnardo 's home in London . |
| 5 | In the case of Repton light-middleweight Leon Young , there was no encouraging influence at all as he was brought up in a Dr Barnardo 's home in Barkingside . |
| 6 | Four birds of a previously unknown species have been found dead in a bird trader 's cage in Tanzania . |
| 7 | Although in a company official 's words Informix Software Inc has managed to ‘ get away without it ’ so far , the Menlo Park , California-based software house has finally been brought to book by competitive and market pressures . |
| 8 | THE death of a woman from pneumonia brought on by Legionnaires ' disease she had contracted while a patient in a Liverpool hospital 's newly-opened heart unit was accidental , an inquest jury decided yesterday . |
| 9 | We were in the middle of a landfight and spent the night in a Serb Police APC . |
| 10 | And if you 've got somebody who 's gon na be promoted or you think might be promoted in a couple years ' time , or even yeah less than that , well what should you be doing ? |
| 11 | Happily they were located in a music publisher 's office during 1951 and finally released . |
| 12 | Simon says in a soap fans ' magazine : ‘ I 'd hate to be going out with some girl that all the boys were hassling or eyeing up . |
| 13 | It followed that Northumberland 's men were in a sense Gloucester 's men , even though the duke could not retain them directly . |
| 14 | It followed that Northumberland 's men were in a sense Gloucester 's men , even though the duke could not retain them directly . |
| 15 | That is he 's answering in a sense George 's question . |
| 16 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 17 | Meanwhile 21 industrialized countries , gathered under the auspices of IEA , had elaborated an oil-sharing arrangement to be invoked in the event of any disruption which caused a shortfall of 7 per cent or more in a member country 's normal supply arrangements . |
| 18 | In a King George 's Jubilee Trust report , The Needs of Youth ( 1939 ) , A. E. Morgan was another who brooded over ‘ a growing contempt by the young person for the procedures of juvenile courts ’ and the ‘ grave reason to believe that parental control is slackening ’ . |
| 19 | EXCITING applications are beginning to emerge for dissolving glass , a material discovered accidentally in a telephone company 's laboratory . |
| 20 | INVESTING £1 MILLION IN A TV DOG 'S DINNER |
| 21 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 22 | Cabinet in Rome rebuilt in a day ITALY 'S Prime Minister , Giuliano Amato , reshuffled three key cabinet posts yesterday as he struggled to keep his government afloat after bribery scandals that have cut a swathe through the Italian political class . |
| 23 | Those secret letters were in a way Judith 's lifeline . |
| 24 | Erm if you were interested in probation then maybe you could get work in a probation hostel er you know as , as some sort of er assistant . |
| 25 | Guns N' Roses hovering like vultures at the graveside in a drug casualty 's burial scene in Clint Eastwood 's latterday Dirty Harry vehicle The Dead Pool |
| 26 | Flaws in crystals at the atomic level are far smaller than the pits etched in a laser disc 's surface , so crystals can potentially pack more information into a given area . |
| 27 | Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it . |
| 28 | But we 'll be back and next time , after the impressive performance of this car , it will be in a Citroën BX 4×4 Estate of our own . |
| 29 | But we 'll be back , and next time , after the impressive performance of this car , it will be in a Citroën BX 4x4 Estate of our own . |
| 30 | We 'll be back and next time after the impressive performance of this car , it will be in a Citroën BX 4x4 Estate of our own . |