Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my term in Derbyshire a lot of rabbit netting was carried out and the thorn defence was very necessary . |
| 2 | History is already repeating itself as farce in Beijing a year after the massacre . |
| 3 | The tragedy is that Offiah did some very good promotional work in Gateshead a couple of days before the game — and then blew all the goodwill . |
| 4 | Davis , of course , would have walked into England 's team in Poland a week on Wednesday ; until last season 's prolonged suspension , followed by injury , Bobby Robson had him firmly pencilled in as Bryan Robson 's replacement . |
| 5 | At any point in time a shortage of either labour or markets is likely to be the dominant factor constraining accumulation at the existing real wage level . |
| 6 | Then I went over to the vice-president 's mansion and played tennis at the naval observatory in Washington a bunch of times . |
| 7 | One stormy evening in December a party of Tibetan traders drove their yaks down the steep path into the village from the west . |
| 8 | A group of American venture capitalists laid down the law to European hopefuls at the Etre conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago . |
| 9 | One day in summer a lady on horseback rode up to the house and knocked on the door . |
| 10 | Well they used to ask you to invite the e actually invite the American soldiers into your homes and my friend in Chuckery a couple of years ago , I was visiting him one Sunday lunch and a knock came to his door and he went and it was a guy who came over to see , his mum is now dead , but he , he come over he remembered him from the war . |
| 11 | The troubled defence and electronics group has spent the week in talks a clutch of potential bidders . |
| 12 | Each defendant must submit to counsel a week in advance a couple of hundred words summarising his life , and this enables counsel to prepare their questions . |
| 13 | Gemma , 11 , was found alone at a flat in Hammersmith a fortnight after her mother left for a month 's holiday with a male friend on the Costa del Sol . |
| 14 | Pyramid Technology Corp , Mountain View , California , has been taking something of a backseat role in telling the world about its newest developments lately : most recently Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was left to deliver Pyramid 's latest MIPS Computer Systems Inc-based R3000 and R400MP siblings at its bash in Rome a couple of weeks ago ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 15 | The teenager also faces charges related to four other fires — one at the Woolworth 's store in Chesterfield a day before the Littlewoods blaze , and three in Chesterfield library . |
| 16 | The Bye Law making participation in CPD a duty of membership was passed by council and an SGM and awaited Privy Council approval as the year ended . |
| 17 | At CASE World in Boston a couple of weeks ago week , DEC , Silicon Graphics Inc and SunSoft Inc , combined to propose a CASE tool integration standard so developers can integrate and deploy their CASE tools across different CASE environments . |
| 18 | In social stratification theory and its application in research a number of assumptions made about the role of women serve to guarantee their invisibility . |
| 19 | If money is paid into the account in notes a charge of 1% ( minimum £6 ) is made . |
| 20 | I have n't forgotten either how you rescued me from that drunken Scot in Champers a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 21 | Jon is twenty-five and lives in a bus in Stoke-Ash a village near Wetheringsett . |
| 22 | A S. I remember when I was working as a dogsbody in the 59 Theatre Company in Manchester a group of Central School students came to be the spirits in a production of The Tempest and these were Pisk trained and had , it seemed to me then , a marvellous range of body language . |
| 23 | At the end of 1982 , Lady Henderson conceived the clever idea of giving the Embassy in Washington a facelift by inviting several top British designers including David Hicks , David Mlinaric , Jean Munro and John Stefanidis , each to decorate one room . |
| 24 | Early last month , a Russian war veteran took matters into his own hands and delivered to the German embassy in Moscow a cache of drawings , prints and paintings , among which , according to the German Foreign Office , is a Durer . |
| 25 | Mar was a 40-year-old former Secretary of State for Scotland who , dropped from office by George I , had turned Jacobite , making his house in London a centre of the anti-Hanoverian conspiracy before , in August 1715 , sailing from London on a collier to Newcastle and thence to Elie in Fife . |
| 26 | It was Mary who , with her husband Joseph — also a striking and impressive example of God 's grace — made of a simple house in Nazareth a home for the King of Kings . |
| 27 | Nevertheless in theory and to some extent in practice a programme of very far-reaching change was carried out ; and this was achieved in one of the most intellectually backward and undeveloped areas in Western Europe . |
| 28 | Next , explosive activity will start , blasting ashy material in jets a couple of hundred metres above sea level . |
| 29 | This set in motion a host of coordinated activities , among which was the study of grassroots/traditional communication for the Intercultural Panel . |
| 30 | FOR the first time in decades a litter of two ocelot kittens has been born at London Zoo . |