Example sentences of "[noun] in a [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are likely to be more important in rural than in urban areas ( Stanyer 1975 ) but Green himself once obtained 773 votes as an independent candidate supported by a residents ’ association in a ward election in Sheffield ( Hampton 1970:291 ) . |
| 2 | It 's the latest episode in a success story for Pete , who has no formal training as a blacksmith . |
| 3 | He alleged that inquiry officers had lied about seeing a flickering light in a bedroom window of his home when they applied for a search warrant . |
| 4 | Sir Michael Checkland , BBC Director General , said : ‘ This important new development with Thames will fulfill three strategic aims for BBC Enterprises ; partnership in a satellite service for the UK , a new source of finance and the use of the BBC 's extensive archives for the secondary market . ’ |
| 5 | The former south London schoolgirl does n't look a day older than when she was spotted by a talent scout in an airport lounge at the age of 14 . |
| 6 | She felt as though she had regained consciousness in a hospital bed after some physical calamity , that because of injury and loss she must now map out a new existence for herself . |
| 7 | Perched between the road and the sea , between sun and cloud , some boys are playing football in a prairie blaze of light . |
| 8 | England withdrew from Fifa in 1928 , as discussions began for the organisation of the first World Cup competition , and remained disdainfully on the sidelines until 1950 , when England 's ‘ superiority ’ complex was quickly dissipated by a 1–0 defeat in a pool match against the United States . |
| 9 | Nearly two years ago , this page highlighted the condition of Debbie Finni , a 21-year-old Manchester amnesiac trapped by official indifference in a twilight world of video tapes and puzzle books . |
| 10 | Dan Gurney in a Chevrolet Impala versus Graham Hill in a Lotus Cortina in the 1964 British Saloon Car Championship . |
| 11 | Pontypridd 's main concern is the fitness of outside-half Neil Jenkins , who turned out for his club in a home friendly against Penarth on Tuesday — only his second game in seven weeks because of an ankle injury . |
| 12 | The hockey class of '32 were no mean cricketers , taking on and beating the Santa Monica Cricket Club in a picnic game after the Olympics . |
| 13 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 14 | A total of 87 people , many of them immigrants from central America , died in the early hours of March 25 when fire swept through the unlicensed Happy Land social club in a slum district of the Bronx , in New York City . |
| 15 | If the QPOs in NGC5548 derive from instability or variability in an accretion disc around a black hole , the black hole mass can be only a few hundred thousand solar masses , an uncomfortably small number for most AGN models . |
| 16 | His Windies team come face-to-face with Javed Miandad 's side in a Test series in the Caribbean this winter , and Richardson added : ‘ They will have to be very careful about what they do with the ball . |
| 17 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 18 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 19 | Thus Geoffrey Cowdrill , after spending 22 years with the TSB , decided to invest his future in an Athena franchise without investigating any of the other packages on offer . |
| 20 | Bearing in mind the difficulty that you may have had even in locating a book on the shelves in your room , imagine what a formidable task it is to arrange hundreds of thousands of books in a college library in such a way that each reader can quickly find a particular book or publication on a particular topic . |
| 21 | During an interview in a television documentary about the Parrys ' struggle to understand why Tim was murdered , his father , Colin , explained why he wanted to meet Mr Adams . |
| 22 | During an interview in a television documentary about the Parry 's struggle to understand why Tim was murdered , his father Colin explained why he wanted to meet Mr Adams . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She had arrived on foot at the Sovereign 's Gate accompanied only by a policeman , after leaving her car in a car park across the road . |
| 25 | Downstairs I heard my husband quietly exchanging words in a telephone call to his mistress . |
| 26 | Intuitively , it would seem desirable that whatever account we give for the role of an expression like in other words in a phrasal apposition like [ 10 ] we give the same account for its role in a reformulation involving complete sentences , for example [ 9 ] . |
| 27 | The battle of words in a takeover bid for an engineering firm is hotting up — with shareholders being asked not to sell out to a cheap offer . |
| 28 | A Frenchman , who had arrived on the scene just too late to save the English girl 's bag , pointed to an advert in a colour supplement for a company called grupo 4 : SEGURIDAD INTEGRAL … en MANOS PERUANOS ( Complete security in Peruvian hands . ) |
| 29 | Kenny won nine full England International caps while he was a Palace player , with another eight for the Under 21 's and two for England B. He was our Player of the Year in both 1977 and 1979 , an ( l it took a record fee to take him to Arsenal in an exchange deal in 1980 , when he and Clive Allen were each valued at £1 million . |
| 30 | JUICE flows more freely from citrus fruit if you warm the fruit on a medium setting in a microwave oven for a couple of minutes . |