Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 2 | Robert was sent as an apprentice to an upholsterer in Covent Garden at the age of fourteen , progressed up the ladder , bought the business , and became a big wheel in the East India Company , a founder of Williams & Glyn Bank and the local MP . |
| 3 | Pistolet Blue , the 1991 Arc de Triomphe third , was surprisingly beaten into second place by Fortune 's Wheel in the Prix d'Harcourt at Longchamp yesterday . |
| 4 | Thame United , they 're at home to Milton Keynes Borough in the south Midlands premier league . |
| 5 | Sunbathers can easily find isolation in the sand dunes and no amount of tourists could fill the beach to Benidorm standards . |
| 6 | You almost never find all the symptoms of the case in a remedy picture and you will never find all the symptoms of a remedy in the disease picture of the case , so do not look for it or try to fit it all in . |
| 7 | They have earned their special opprobrium in the word biblioclast ( book destroyer ) . |
| 8 | 24.10.90 Minutes of a meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association in the Village Hall on Wednesday , 24th October at 7.30pm . |
| 9 | ON ADVENT Sunday , 29th November , 22 nervous teenager contestants with their families and Catenian organisers met in the lecture theatre of the North Tees Hospital for the first public speaking competition promoted by the Catenian Association in the North East . |
| 10 | For example , in a Commission decision in 1982 a network of price-fixing agreements within a trade association in the cognac industry established in France by statute was held to infringe Article 85 , despite the fact that the association 's board operated under government supervision . |
| 11 | The thinking in the State Department was that a statement should be issued shortly , confirming that the ROK was regarded as the government of Korea in accordance with past resolutions of the UN General Assembly . |
| 12 | It is hoped that this meagre expedition into social history may provide at least some indication of the extent to which each decade has bred people of differing outlook on sexuality and an indication of the way in which different styles of upbringing and ways of social thinking in the childhood years of successive decades might be expected to affect the outlook and tolerance of adults throughout the varying age groups of society . |
| 13 | The third Scot , Myra McKinlay , missed the cut , this part-time lifeguard having , somewhat inappropriately , come to grief in the water hazard behind the home green . |
| 14 | If the ’ prudence ’ concept is followed there should be a tendency to undervalue rather than overvalue stock in the building industry . |
| 15 | In most parishes the churchwardens held a stock in the church box ; in some a guild or fraternity of lay people maintained a stock of its own . |
| 16 | Additional sub-bands in the control ( 0 ) lane , may be due to polymorphism in the C57Bl/6-SJL background of the Long 12 transgenic . |
| 17 | Although the amount of employment created by Nissan was relatively small compared to the huge loss of manufacturing jobs caused by de-industrialisation in the North East , the investment was seen as a sign of hope , possibly leading to involvement by other Japanese companies . |
| 18 | Piol also foresees the advent of Windows NT creating a serious discontinuity in the computer business with Intel under increasing pressure from Microsoft 's shift to other platforms and software providers forced to choose what end of the market to support . |
| 19 | Karen Young 's glamorous looks would make her a role model for actress Helen Mirren who tracked down a serial killer in the hit series . |
| 20 | Volatile solvent extraction is employed a great deal in the perfume industry because it produces superb fragrances which are truer to the aroma found in the living plant . |
| 21 | ‘ She was down before me , breakfasted and lookin' as though she was just off to complete a big business deal in the money centre of BA or wherever . |
| 22 | A RAW DEAL IN THE ROMP STAKES |
| 23 | The payment of these separation allowances , which Eleanor Rathbone called ‘ the largest experiment in the State endowment of maternity the world has ever seen ’ ( Rathbone , 1917 ; p. 55 ) , was important in two respects . |
| 24 | On 5 October 1783 , he was baptised in the river at Northampton by John Ryland , who later became his close associate in the missionary cause . |
| 25 | What change of perception in the security situation has led to our accepting that diminution of capability . |
| 26 | But Shelley was concentrating on the mystery of the drug cupboard , and wondering what old Abuelo Freitas was doing sitting in the village street all night . |
| 27 | But if manufacturers were to try too hard to come up with new ideas we 'd be constantly faced with designs to rival Gibson 's semi-mythical Moderne and Burns ' Flyte in the grossness stakes . |
| 28 | ‘ And there was n't much light in the wash house . |
| 29 | Excitation within a d-d band may lead to very little resonance Raman enhancement , and indeed for some species with inversion centers it has been found that the Raman bands are weaker than in the normal Raman spectrum when excited by light in the absorption profile of a d-d band . |
| 30 | He was a leading light in the Cinematograph Exhibitors ' Association and expanded his business by acquiring and developing a chain of cinemas — which he named Vogue — in places like Govan , Rutherglen and Shettleston . |