Example sentences of "in a [noun] of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | While drinking our essential morning tea and coffee we were lost in a sea of women in traditional dress with castanets . |
| 2 | The three programmatic essays , " Notes-programme sur la philosophie " ( 1930 ) , an aggressive rejection of self-deluding , complacent idealist philosophy , " Litterature revolutionnaire en France " ( 1932 ) , an uncompromising literary manifesto combining a denunciation of capitalism , fascism and social democratic treachery with a rallying call for revolutionary literature committed to the cause of the proletariat , and " Les Consequences du refus " ( 1930 ) , a withering attack on imperialist warmongering and bourgeois oppression culminating in a proclamation of faith in the French communist party and the revolutionary Soviet state , all three bear the imprint of an unequivocally sectarian frame of mind . |
| 3 | I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Subject to subsection ( 2 ) above , at any meeting of a licensing board the chairman shall , in a case of equality in voting , have a second or casting vote : |
| 5 | The general decline in the Church 's influence was reflected in a degree of secularization in Russian culture . |
| 6 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 7 | The ASB agreed that changes in shareholders ' funds other than those included in the statement of total recognised gains and losses can also be important in understanding the change in a reporting entity 's financial position , and concluded that this additional information should be required in a reconciliation of movements in shareholders ' funds . |
| 8 | Case studies of screening and follow up provision will then be conducted in a range of schools in the same LEAs . |
| 9 | We had been getting it wrong , so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups . |
| 10 | over fifty disappeared from Hurstmonceux alone in a couple of weeks in 1838 . |
| 11 | Over 140 people listed had been detained in a wave of arrests in Nouakchott and Nouadhibou beginning in November 1990 . |
| 12 | But dégorgement dates back at least as far as Dom Pérignon , who we know kept bottles stored , neck downward , in a bed of sand in order to encourage the sediment to drift down to the base of the cork . |
| 13 | No — Silas would n't treat Stella in that manner , Lucy decided in a burst of faith in the man she loved . |
| 14 | The first photographs on the theme , taken in a burst of activity in 1975–78 , were part of another long and complex work . |
| 15 | It is understandable that the previous isolation of the disease results in a sense of amazement in early recovery on the discovery that other people have not only shared similar experiences but also similar thoughts and feelings . |
| 16 | It is disturbing to think any of them are in a position of influence in the education field since to a man they seem only capable of talking in cliche-riddled sentences or civil service speak . |
| 17 | ‘ Where there is power , there is resistance ’ , Foucault argues , but nevertheless , because of this , ‘ resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power ’ . |
| 18 | I am convinced that if the hon. Gentleman were ever in a position of responsibility in the House — the likelihood of which is becoming increasingly remote — he would also find himself advised that it would be foolish to put before the House proposals which in a few weeks or months might fall outside the law . |
| 19 | Erm , we , we , we really er , like to be in a position of control in any of the acquisitions er , that we make er , where we are associates rather than , than having a hundred percent or a least erm , over fifty . |
| 20 | Broadly speaking , a fiduciary relationship will arise when one person undertakes to act on behalf of or for the benefit of another , often as an intermediary with a discretion or power that affects the interests of the other , and that other is in a position of vulnerability in relation to the fiduciary . |
| 21 | ‘ Such conduct was clearly not acceptable for someone in a position of authority in a public company . ’ |
| 22 | There was nobody in a position of power in Iran , he believed , but ‘ irrational lunatics ’ , with whom ‘ we did n't have the slightest possibility of getting any kind of an improved relationship ’ . |
| 23 | The pathologist had finished with Maurice 's body , which now lay in a chapel of rest in Maidenhead , awaiting a decision on when and where the funeral was to be held . |
| 24 | In a sample of 5-year-olds in 1975 , only 8 per cent of children with fathers in class I had no pre-school experience , compared to 43 per cent of children with fathers in class V. In 1980 there were places in all these institutions , plus childminders , for only 4 per cent of the 0 — 4 age-group . |
| 25 | Let us now consider the distribution of GNP in a sample of countries in the world , as shown in figure 11.1 . |
| 26 | Project Video is set in a variety of locations in all parts of Britain , and gives insights into life in Britain today . |
| 27 | In this chapter I shall argue that such problems are rooted in a variety of differences in values , practices , perspectives and professional ethos , arising out of a range of social , cultural and historical processes . |
| 28 | Glass vessels appear in a variety of forms in graves and were classified by Harden ( 1956b ) into eleven types divided into three chronological groups , which have since been extended and reviewed ( Harden 1978 ) . |
| 29 | A typical career path might be a young European starting in the hotel industry as a management trainee , gaining experience in a variety of establishments in the far East and Europe , then progressing from , say , a major hotel chain through the food and beverage side to a management position at the top end of the leisure market . |
| 30 | The National Council annually met in a variety of cities in March , so as not to clash with the customary ‘ May Meetings ’ of the various denominations . |