Example sentences of "an air [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before dozing off on an air mattress beneath a nylon tent amid the stench of decaying refuse they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings . |
| 2 | I got clipped in an air strike on the first day . |
| 3 | Interfax news agency quoted Russia 's defence ministry as confirming an air strike on ‘ military targets ’ in Sukhumi . |
| 4 | Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has said the international community must consider the effects of an air strike in Bosnia before making the move . |
| 5 | If there was an air raid at night and the lights on the camp boundary were turned out you missed the flickering of the searchlights as you miss the light of the moon when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 6 | Western military sources confirmed that Turkey had the military capability to carry out an air raid on the Bekaa . |
| 7 | Her eldest son was killed in an air raid on Liverpool in 1941 , the second died in Australia in 1973 , the third ( aged nine months ) in 1909 , and two of her daughters in 1948 and 1967 respectively . |
| 8 | One teacher described the effect of an air raid on the students . |
| 9 | An air raid on Leith by a German Zeppelin on 2nd April resulted in damage to a bonded warehouse . |
| 10 | In early 1981 , the Israelis had staged an air raid against the Rashidiyeh Palestinian camp — where Mrs Zamzam had her home — and I drove down to southern Lebanon from Beirut to report on the attack . |
| 11 | Cobbe was to have his way , for Maria Van Butchell , the green parrot and the ‘ ugly neighbour ’ were all destroyed during an air raid in 1941 . |
| 12 | Cherry went on to become a popular radio broadcaster and was sadly killed when leaving Broadcasting House during an air raid in 1940 . |
| 13 | Above the chugging [ there was an air raid in progress ] came a kind of rhythmic panting — screeching … a kind of dragging-hopping , like a kangaroo in its death throes . |
| 14 | Communications were no doubt temporarily dislocated : our jam-packed train had been halted during the night owing to an air raid in the region . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the church was severely damaged in an air raid in 1944 but has now been rebuilt to the original design . |
| 16 | Could you make sure you do this really quite fine because I 'm I 'm we 're doing an air check on this bit |
| 17 | An air extraveganza with plenty of high flyers . |
| 18 | THE funeral was taking place today of Comber businessman Ken McWhinney who died in a tragic flying accident at an air rally in the Republic on Sunday . |
| 19 | Britain was today considering a United States request to look at ways of joining an air operation to parachute relief supplies into Bosnia . |
| 20 | ‘ I had no idea that I was entering such a Hall of Fame , ’ he went on , and was about to enjoy a ride on an air bubble of loquacity when Mrs Robinson addressed a cat and the cat said ‘ No ! ’ |
| 21 | Many objects offer clues that tell us how they were made — an air bubble in a piece of mouth-blown glass , or the tell-tale edge that the join in the mould has left all around a cast-iron object , or the impression of a paw print left by a stray cat on a Roman clay roof tile . |
| 22 | Draught for the fire comes from an air pump from Enfield and there are hand bellows from Hatton on the Grand Union Canal . |
| 23 | In Bosnia itself the Serbs said they would open an air link to the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica and halted an offensive that brought their forces within a mile of its outskirts . |
| 24 | There is also an air link by Loganair . |
| 25 | In an air attack on the way back he had been killed while firing away at the fighters who were strafing his truck . |
| 26 | The early months of the war and the threat of an air attack on London brought a number of educational establishments to Cambridge — the London School of Economics , Guy 's Hospital , St Bartholomew 's and Bedford College among them . |
| 27 | During a conversation on board his flagship Nagato during Christmas 1940 , Admiral Yamamoto remarked to his Chief-of-Staff , Vice-Admiral Shigeru Fukadome , that ‘ … an air attack on Pearl Harbor might be possible now , especially as our air training has turned out so successfully . ’ |
| 28 | TIP : Try placing an air stone under your internal filter to ensure that plenty of air is sucked into the media . |
| 29 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 30 | These ventilators could be closed if necessary , by means of a glass door and , in order to keep the temperature constant , the roof was made double , with an air space between , while the sides were also made double , and were lagged with hair felt , placed between the outside and inside panelling . |