Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in the [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | a bit in the eyes a bit |
| 2 | As Allen turned to clamber down he spotted through a gap in the leaves a thin spiral of smoke not far off to the east . |
| 3 | Legal experts have noted , in this context , that because of a loophole in the law an owner ( in this case British Coal ) is not responsible for the pollution caused by the abandonment of a mine . |
| 4 | which of the following names is not a bone in the body a femur , patella , radius , cornea or temporal |
| 5 | Keith Waugh has managed to make a career in the RAF a family concern — and is making a tremendous success of it . |
| 6 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 7 | But just around a bend in the road an opposition supporter who was frightened away from the station , Mr Ram Raj Upadhyaya , said : ‘ We are all terrified and afraid to go anywhere near the polling station . |
| 8 | There was a bird in the trees a little way off , making a loud tick-tick-tick noise — I suppose it was warning its mates there were some hysterical humanoids hereabouts . |
| 9 | On a balcony in the background an immaculately uniformed band of the Household Guards played selections of light classical music to relax everyone . |
| 10 | He moved into an apartment in the village a week ago . ’ |
| 11 | Grado Cathedral , built on an island in the lagoon a few miles further south , is similar in design but the workmanship is not of such a high standard . |
| 12 | Figure 5.11(b) shows an increase in the areas a and b with a consequent reduction in the proportion ( although not the absolute number ) of c elements activated by a stimulus . |