Example sentences of "an [noun sg] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But every week , thousands of Multiple Sclerosis sufferers across the country take comfort from spending an hour in a divers ' de-compression chamber . |
| 2 | Normally anyone who receives an award in an Honours List attends on a particular day at the Palace when Her Majesty confers them wholesale . |
| 3 | It is said that aged three Gauss corrected an error in a wages list , whilst aged eight ( some say ten ) he wrote down in moments the answer to the following problem set in class : add together all the integers from 1 to 100 . |
| 4 | They met after care assistant Gillian , of Aintree , put an ad in a Forces ' newspaper asking for a pen-pal a year ago . |
| 5 | He lived on a war pension , having been invalided out of the RAF with epilepsy — the result , we think , of an explosion in a munitions factory . |
| 6 | As priyayi he obtained an education in a Teachers ' Training School and was sent off to the little island of Bali . |
| 7 | Like an illustration in a childrens ' book , you look at it and know there will be magic on the other side . |
| 8 | The whale 's new home is an enclosure in a children 's health cure resort at Laspi Bay , seven kilometres from the spot Mikhail Gorbachev chose for his presidential dacha in the Crimea , and 20 kilometres from the closed city of Sevastopol . |