Example sentences of "in a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The fish is preserved in a siltstone nodule , which has partially formed around the body of the fish . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | We set up an apparatus in which pairs of protons , A and B , are produced in a singlet state . |
4 | Brichardi need a fair sized territory and would not be able to establish this in a Mbuna tank . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Free carnitine was converted to C acetyl carnitine and measured in a scintillation counter . |
7 | This delayed the Whole patrol for two hours whilst the unfortunate driver was flown to the Field Hospital in a Gazelle helicopter which was called out to the scene , and a REME team drove out to repair the Land-Rover . |
8 | It acknowledged the difficulties of the police in a terrorist campaign : complimented the RUC on its restraint and professional integrity and pointed out that the number of detectives who had resorted to physical violence appeared to be small in relation to the total force . |
9 | Though he had his doubts about al-Megrahi — his ‘ answers to questions were not always convincing ’ — he found Fhimah ‘ a simple man , and it was hard to believe that he had been involved in a terrorist case . |
10 | The family of a British nurse who died in a terrorist attack in Egypt are angry at the way they learned of the tragedy . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | NOTE : I will slot in a slide/video item on this outing during the forthcoming season . |
14 | Total DNA was extracted from white pupae ( 100 of Trichogramma spp. and 5 of Muscidifurax ) after these were surface-sterilized with 70% ethanol , thoroughly washed with sterile water and homogenized in a Mini-Bead beater ( Biospec ) . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Hence , certainty of the law , an essential requirement in a common-law system , is dependent upon consistency in the decisions of the Court of Appeal . |
17 | His arm rose and fell in a chopping motion . |
18 | The remains of fish are rare , as we would expect , although Evans ' excavators found fish vertebrae in a cooking pot at Knossos . |
19 | ACTORS have researched Shakespeare in prisons , zoos , hospitals : David Garrick constructed his Lear in a lunatic asylum , studying an old man who had managed to drop his daughter out of a window . |
20 | When her husband died , Elisabeth returned to the Fatherland , where her brother , driven mad by syphilis , was immured in a lunatic asylum . |
21 | A doctor in a lunatic asylum walked past a well-known crazy who was dragging a mop behind him . |
22 | Besides , Cecilia had the example of poor Evelina before her and the recollection of a family rumour that a brother of that manufacturing grandfather had died in a lunatic asylum . |
23 | Nevertheless it is clearly playing a useful part in a prevention campaign ; indeed , the greater the number of elements in such a strategy the better . |
24 | After the end of the study , no patient in either group was involved in a prevention programme . |
25 | ‘ What she needs is not contained in a prescription bottle . |
26 | But on the contrary Willie made it seem a prop of the work , like ripe thighs in a chorus girl or the swivel eye of Ben Turpin . |
27 | Davide recognised his own people in the mourners of the tomb wall-paintings , women who strode forward in sandals , arms linked in a chorus line to send off the dead with exuberant and noisy rites . |
28 | They included the pop singer Lyn Paul , best known as a former member of the New Seekers , dancer Jane Summerhayes , who appeared on the London stage in A Chorus Line , his secretary Jo-Anne Robinson , another dancer , who was in the musical Billy with him , and dancer Jane Watts , who appeared in Barnum . |
29 | It is not unique to the industrial sector and not even to engineering ; it occurs in such widely differing activities as the construction of a longhut in a jungle clearing and the knitting of a pullover . |
30 | The steam rose from the cavernous sink and the furniture loomed at us like shapes in a jungle night . |