Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a function in Bucharest the British Ambassador asked for something from home . |
| 2 | I 'm gon na elaborate on all these a bit in syntax a lot as we proceed . |
| 3 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 4 | We 've had a look in sale the other day . |
| 5 | The commission for the piece came from Life magazine , but due to a change in publishers the images never ran , ‘ I 've tried to sell it overseas and in Europe and had very good success with it . |
| 6 | Brenda has started a practice in homeopathy an alternative medical system growing in popularity . |
| 7 | In a study in Oxford the effectiveness of home-based treatment was compared with treatment of outpatients ( Hawton et al. 1981a ) . |
| 8 | Sinqe , who holds his country 's national record of 2hr 8min 4sec , was due to run his first marathon outside the republic in the NutraSweet-sponsored event on 18 April but London organisers were left fuming when they discovered he had run a marathon in Japan a fortnight ago in defiance of his contract which stipulated that he should not run a competitive marathon within 90 days of the big race . |
| 9 | T is awful I was taught as a child in catechism the labourer is worthy of his hire there are four sins that cry out to heaven for justice one of them is a oppressing the widow and orphan and the other is defrauding the labourer of his hire because the labourer is worthy of his hire that 's a sin that cries to heaven for justice , that 's what I was taught as a child . |
| 10 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |
| 11 | ‘ I understand you also told George that you had a rehearsal in Rotherhithe the night before you tried to reform the Intelligence Service by force majeure . |
| 12 | Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story … |
| 13 | Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story … |
| 14 | The ratio can rise either as a result of an increase in OM or through a fall in P. The only route through which OM can rise is a temporary budget deficit financed by the issue of fiat money . |
| 15 | In fourth-century-BC Athens it was possible to buy manuscripts reproduced by hand-copying at relatively low cost , and the scriptoria in which such copying was done — there is a reference in Pliny the Younger to an edition of a thousand copies — remained important through Roman to medieval times . |
| 16 | Using the stock concept , at a point in time an investment project is profitable if the present value of net operating benefits the stream of future operating profits discounted at the interest rate at which firms must borrow funds — exceeds the initial purchase price of the new capital good . |
| 17 | Instead of a place in school the girl had an operation . |
| 18 | At a meeting in Washington the committee adopted a resolution urging the 118 CITES members to enforce a trade embargo on these countries unless they take significant steps to stop the trade . |
| 19 | On July 3 at a meeting in Rome the Albanian Prime Minister Ylli Bufi discussed the problem with Margherita Boniver , the Italian Immigration Minister . |
| 20 | At a meeting in July a working party was appointed , with Sir John Lockwood as chairman . |
| 21 | At a meeting in Frankfurt the West German Federation refused steadfastly to bow to mounting pressure from the Grand Slam committee to sanction the cup . |
| 22 | It seems that there is still some mileage in the situation which arose in February 1992 , when at a meeting in Minsk the presidents of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed the now infamous Agreement on the Return of Cultural and Historical Treasures to their States of Origin ( The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 2 ) . |
| 23 | On 20 April , Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology , discussed in a lecture in Birmingham the standards for a cable system . |
| 24 | In the case of a sale of leasehold property where the lessor 's licence to assign is required , the form of licence sometimes requires signing of a counterpart licence by the seller , and frequently by the buyer too , whereby the latter explicitly becomes responsible for the tenant 's covenants in the lease ; this is a reminder in case the seller must execute the document . |
| 25 | SIX YEARS AGO , at a conference in Argentina the United Nations set a target for the 1980s : clean water and sanitation for all . |
| 26 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 27 | ‘ You can buy a copy of an album or a video in Moscow the day after it is released in the West , ’ says Grigoriev . |
| 28 | He begins as he means to go on , pooh-poohing the story that Dickens ' mother went to a ball in Plymouth the night before his birth : ‘ No ball is mentioned in the area for that particular evening . ’ |
| 29 | Well folks this was not a classic in fact the first 40 minutes of the first half was utterly crap . |
| 30 | Where this is a factor in comparisons an apportionment should be added to true costs equivalent to the cost of ancillary products necessary to dose the unit quantity of the chemical involved . |