Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Law Commission , too , is heavily involved in a long-term codification project with which it now has the assistance of a powerful Society of Public Teachers of Law group . |
| 2 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
| 3 | For £30,000 a year the St Edmund 's Ladies ' College , based in a stately country home in Bury St Edmunds , will teach young women to be ‘ internationally comfortable and active ’ . |
| 4 | When the linguist claims superior insight based on a realistic linguistic theory that yields a definitive account , linguistics could be viewed as being in a rhetorical power struggle with the other relevancies constructed by literature . |
| 5 | In a closed-loop control scheme with continuously.variable switching angle the motor is able to develop its pull-out torque at all speeds and therefore the system performance is maximised . |
| 6 | Natalie Bayliss , 22 , is suing the Home Secretary and the prison 's governor for damages in a legal test case at Liverpool County Court . |
| 7 | It has indicated that children in experimental Yoruba medium classes do not appear to suffer either in their knowledge of English or in their performance in a final state examination in English . |
| 8 | A case report and clinical-epidemiological studies in patients who have misused anthranoid laxatives over a long period should be considered in a final risk assessment for colorectal cancer in man . |
| 9 | West Custom Marine are now establishing in a modern yard nest to Lymington station . |
| 10 | Situated in a pleasant side street behind the seafront and near to the main boulevard of Scheveningen . |
| 11 | When serving out of England and Wales , the court fixes in the case of a default summons , or in a fixed date action to which Ord 17 , r11 ( automatic directions ) applies , the time for delivering an admission or defence or for paying the total claim and costs into court , and in any other case a return day ( Ord 8 , rr 2(3) , 4 and 7 ) . |
| 12 | If the admission etc is delivered late but in a default action before judgment is entered or in a fixed date action before the return day , then the court proceeds as if the admission etc had been filed in time , as far as possible . |
| 13 | One of the most memorable nights was spent in a Romanian refugee camp at Terni where some refugees gave up their beds to that the three friends wold be as comfortable as possible . |
| 14 | It will keep for months in a sealed glass jar in a cook , dark place . |
| 15 | We briefly describe a number of variations on this idea below , However , while such techniques can be used effectively when programming in an assembler language , it is much more difficult for a compiler to recognize which constructions in a high-level language call for their use . |
| 16 | Dr John Apps , whose practice is in Neasham Road , Darlington , spent the night in a frozen food store in preparation for a trip to the Arctic on April 5 . |
| 17 | Halfway through her voice had become an echo disorientating Maxim until his memory came to rest in a stone-walled lecture room with the Scottish wind rattling the windows . |
| 18 | Jonson 's notorious prolixity seems absent from this crisply funny production by Sam Mendes , which is performed in a bare brick room beneath a panorama of a metropolis mad with gold fever . |
| 19 | I am sitting now in an arbour of rust-coloured bougainvillaea drinking lukewarm , weak coffee , brought to me in a stainless steel pot by a waiter in a starched white uniform , thinking in an aimless way about this puzzle , when I see the waiter returning . |
| 20 | STRATHCLYDE councillors yesterday ran the gauntlet of 3,000 angry local government workers protesting at budget cuts and the stalemate in a three-month-long pay dispute in the region 's finance department . |
| 21 | He also claimed his party would ‘ kick-start ’ the Mike Potter , who stood for the SDP in the 1989 Richmond by-election , said he would n't be standing in the forthcoming general Labour 's Tony Blair , Tory Michael Fallon and Lib Dem 's Alan Beith clashed in a live TV debate over the NHS . |
| 22 | Comp completely , I mean I 'm sat here in a live television studio with a girlfriend on my hand , I was housebound , erm just no interest in my hobbies , no energy , erm |
| 23 | CARLO Verri , the new president of the Italian state airline Alitalia , died on Monday night aged 50 in a macabre car crash in the southern suburbs of Rome . |
| 24 | That is his strength — but also his weakness , since music tends to take second place and leave him locked in a radical cabaret slot from which he is unlikely to emerge . |
| 25 | The sentence followed Poindexter 's conviction in a federal District Court on April 7 on all five felony counts ( including obstructing and lying to Congress ) arising from his role in the Iran-contra scandal [ see pp. 37368-69 ] . |
| 26 | Fiers appeared in a federal District court on July 9 and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanour counts of withholding information from Congress . |
| 27 | Today timed to the minute a policeman wearing similar clothes posed as the motorcyclist detectives believe fired the five shots from close range in a remote country lane in Rushton in Northamptonshire . |
| 28 | Her daughter Brenda Robinson , of Middleton-in-Teesdale , told South-West Durham coroner Colin Penna how she found her mother 's body in a remote water tank on her parents ' farm . |
| 29 | This mission failed when three troop-carrying helicopters crashed in a remote desert area of Iran , and the final release of the hostages did not take place until after the election of 1980 . |
| 30 | A SCOTTISH researcher has been led to safety after being trapped in a remote wildlife reserve by gun battles raging between rival forces in the African republic of Rwanda . |