Example sentences of "in a [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Agatha , very chic in a cambric high gown and lace cap , was firm as she fixed her nephew with an unwavering stare . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the chemotherapy was poorly tolerated , the patient went into a gradual decline , and died in a hospice three months later . |
| 3 | Then to everyone 's surprise they saw on the side of the track a little old man perhaps in his seventies , wearing an old-fashioned waistcoat and jacket , standing in a brick arch-shaped embrasure looking anxiously at the train . |
| 4 | In May 1987 , in a £98 million deal , he picked up the Garfunkels restaurant chain . |
| 5 | Here again , though , this is not by itself to say that where a co-operative can get properly started in a capital intensive business , it would find it more difficult to compete than would a conventionally organised firm . |
| 6 | He woke in a fury two hours afterward , and said that she had upset his rhythm and that he had to make some calls . |
| 7 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 8 | I saw a lot of old friends , and wore a dashing outfit purchased at perhaps an extravagance in a London second hand shop — but from the compliments , I feel now it was worth it and that , feeling good in it , I will wear it quite a lot . |
| 9 | On the other hand , stretches of Creole embedded in a London English turn often correspond to the most salient parts of the utterance , those which the other parties to the conversation respond to . |
| 10 | At their meeting in a London Methodist centre for homeless and rootless people they also talked about Diana 's recent marriage problems . |
| 11 | Methanogenic bacteria tend to predominate in a sulphate depleted environment , however . |
| 12 | Children 's leggings and swimsuits in a starfish inspired print . |
| 13 | The first team will train , while the Stags entertain Mowden Park in a Durham Second Teams Cup semi-final . |
| 14 | In a planners ideal world where we might have a wholly directed economy competition would not be relevant but I 'm afraid the reality is we have to compete in North Yorkshire with other counties in er this region and with other regions in Britain with other countries in the European Union and with other countries in the world . |
| 15 | Reports of Lib Dem demands for four cabinet posts in a minority Labour government , apparently floated by Des Wilson , only aggravated the damage he was doing . |
| 16 | MIKE HOOPER , the goalkeeper whose Liverpool career looked over , returns to the firing line tonight in a shock European selection gamble . |
| 17 | Two of the players , Robertas Fidrikas and Asminas Narberkovas , scored the goals in a shock 2–2 draw against Northern Ireland in Belfast in April last year . |
| 18 | Defending champions Denbigh moved themselves menacingly into second place by crushing Craig-y-Don 9–1 in the biggest win of the week , but Sunny Rhyl lost ground in a shock 7–3 tumble at lowly Min-y-Don Park . |
| 19 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 20 | The output from a conventional laser is generated by stimulated emission , whereby the optical wave within the laser cavity is amplified by traversing the gain medium — eg the gas mixture in a CO 2 laser . |
| 21 | She met her boyfriend Barry in a pub two years ago . |
| 22 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 23 | Well that 's what I 'm saying about the image of the drinking er I guarantee you could as you know as you say you could be in a pub all afternoon all evening all night with maybe twenty people having a music session and ten of them might n't be drinking at all . |
| 24 | Laura found other themes in Victorian novels to bolster what she already believed ; for example the home was viewed as a haven isolated from the trials and tribulations of the ‘ real ’ world and women presiding over the home were to make it as attractive as possible to persuade men to stay there rather than , for example , drinking in a pub all evening . |
| 25 | You 're not supposed to be aware of it , you 're supposed to say normal , we sat in a pub last night and this man started telling me a dirty joke , so that 's on it . |
| 26 | Now I found this out because I was in a pub last night and someone told me . |
| 27 | It is a wee bit disconcerting when you can hear yourself think in a pub these days . |
| 28 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 29 | One of the most beautiful uses of pas de bourrée courus is when Ashton places his danseuse in her partner 's arms as she floats over the surface of the floor as if in a dream like ecstasy . |
| 30 | The British girl held out until being caught in a hold 30 seconds from the end . |