Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change in attitude together with the problems of housing the vehicles , ensured the rock-bottom values which enabled to collect . |
| 2 | Thousands of feet had tramped this route in times past before railways and military invasion . |
| 3 | The declaration left open the possibility of bilateral aid , and the West German government subsequently pledged a loan package amounting to US$3,100 million in advance of the Gorbachev-Kohl summit on German reunification in Moscow later in July [ see pp. 37659-61 ] . |
| 4 | But for QPR 's Les Ferdinand there was another dip in fortunes midway through a season that began with an international breakthrough . |
| 5 | THE WORLD 'S most advanced prosthetic arm made its public debut in Glasgow yesterday at the Scottish Naidex'93 exhibition . |
| 6 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 7 | THE CHIEF executive of National Car Parks was cleared at the Old Bailey in London yesterday of mounting a campaign of industrial espionage against his main rival , Europarks . |
| 8 | The girl was attacked after leaving this club in Northampton just after 11 p.m. last night . |
| 9 | Former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , speaking in The Hague on May 15 , warned that " the problem of German power has again surfaced " and argued in favour of a looser , broader confederation in Europe instead of " a centralized superstate " . |
| 10 | But enough family likeness remains to make the chimpanzees ' tea-time a most popular attraction in zoos all over the world . |
| 11 | FORMER world snooker champion Steve Davis was dumped from the Dubai Duty Free Classic in Blackpool yesterday by Wayne Jones . |
| 12 | We shall start by confirming that sexual behaviour does indeed ensure that mates are of the correct species , and then see how well Darwin 's theory , modified and tested by recent work , can explain the full variety of sexual behaviour in animals both during courtship and , later , in parental care . |
| 13 | James Beveridge , 36 , unemployed , of no settled address , was jailed for two years at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday after admitting making a hoax bomb call to Gatwick airport . |
| 14 | A LORRY driver told the High Court in Inverness yesterday of the night he had been masked , bound and abducted by two men who had threatened to shoot him after his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs had been stolen from Inverness . |
| 15 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , that their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 16 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , who claim their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 17 | Three organisers of an Acid House party who were jailed for three months for breaching an injunction banning an event in Warwickshire were freed in the High Court in London yesterday after apologising . |
| 18 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 19 | THE Mayor of a Lancashire town returned to her old school in Darlington yesterday for a trip down Memory Lane . |
| 20 | Police were called to this hotel in Northampton just before closing time last night . |
| 21 | He had worked in Belfast in the late 1940s , and compared the Labour scene in Derry unfavourably with that of the larger city : ‘ We may pride ourselves on being a city but politically we are still a small Ulster town . ’ |
| 22 | The body was found in a terraced cottage in Cheltenham shortly before lunch time . |
| 23 | THE Government is expected to announce the closure of Portland naval base in Dorset today with the loss of almost 2,000 jobs . |
| 24 | Personal — Call to renew personal faith in Jesus e.g. through prayer/ reading the Bible |
| 25 | In a somewhat different sense , involving to some extent the balance of rights between generations , the natural environment of human life and more generally the ‘ quality of life ’ , has become a more prominent issue in relation both to economic development and to population growth , through the rapidly expanding activities of ecology movements . |
| 26 | This is so because a limited accountability in terms only of satisfying employers in local authorities or inspectors of schools has given way to openness and to the multiplication of participators who claim a say in the running of education . |
| 27 | The plot , which concerned unseemly and immoral behaviour among the upper classes and their humiliation by their servants , was considered too daringly outspoken ( and doubtless too uncomfortably near the truth ) by those same aristocrats , and a German version had been banned by imperial decree in Vienna early in 1785 . |
| 28 | ‘ My description will be Community Representative which I hope will result in an organisation with ideals to put the community and its needs first and will defend the high moral ground in politics together with support for the have-nots . ’ |
| 29 | This still exists in a limited form in relation both to companies and to individuals , in that where a person is adjudged bankrupt or a company is wound up by the court , dispositions of property made by the debtor or the company after a prescribed date , usually the date of the presentation of the petition for a bankruptcy order or a winding up order , are void unless the court otherwise orders : sections 127 and 284 . |
| 30 | Stock Exchange insider dealing investigators have launched an inquiry into a suspicious surge in activity ahead of the bid on the traded options market : traded options allow dealers to bet on future share prices . |