Example sentences of "in a [noun prp] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blueprint for strengthening the CSCE 's ability to deal with crises and conflicts in Europe would be worked out by senior officials in a three-month conference , to culminate in a CSCE summit in July . |
| 2 | It is possible the discovery could be part of Middle Eastern terrorism — two months ago a terrorist was blown up by his own bomb in a London hotel in an incident later linked to the Satanic Verses affair . |
| 3 | One Christmas when Macmillan was in his eighties his grand-son Alexander ( Maurice 's son and the present Lord Stockton ) , who looked after the old boy in many ways , asked me if I would read the eighth of nine lessons at a carol service in a London church in aid of dependants of the Publishers Association . |
| 4 | TWO police officers are to go to jail for their part in the massacre of guerrilla prisoners in a Lima prison in June , 1986 . |
| 5 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 6 | This incident proved the danger to Special Forces when they sought sanctuary in a neutral country , for Graham Hayes was shot in a Paris prison in the summer of 1943 . |
| 7 | TWENTY people were shot and hacked to death in a Johannesburg township in the worst incident of violence in South Africa since August 1990 , and 10 others were killed in settlements elsewhere in the city , writes Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg . |
| 8 | The mistress of the church school in a Somersetshire parish in 1805 was not a widow but still sufficiently poor for her ten-year-old son to be killed working in a coal mine . |
| 9 | In a Minnesota case in 1979 , for instance , a young intern 's casual comment that a laceration appeared to have been caused by a knife later led the injured woman to change her story completely and come to believe , under hypnosis , that she was stabbed repeatedly , despite subsequent medical evidence . |
| 10 | If a UK resident had a deposit in a UK bank in any currency other than sterling , this would be an example of Eurocurrency . |
| 11 | Bailey competed as an unheralded schoolboy in a AAA meeting in the late 1930s , then returned to his Trinidadian birthplace . |
| 12 | Following their success in a Dubai tournament in November , the Scots have been seeded first for an event in Canberra on March 13 which opens their tour . |
| 13 | That is to say it might be possible , as an example , to find that a particular non-US bank held deposits in a NOSTRO account in the US to the value of $1m . |
| 14 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 15 | He died in a Surrey hospital in May 1963 , aged 76 . |
| 16 | For anyone with few possessions who chose to contract a variety of debts , said Lord Althorp in a Commons debate in February 1820 on a Bill that would refine the 1813 legislation , it would only be ‘ a slight visitation ’ to have to surrender them to his creditors . |
| 17 | Kenneth Baker echoed the views of most MPs in a Commons debate in 1990 : ‘ If the concept of British justice is to mean anything , we must retain the possibility of rectifying a mistaken verdict . |
| 18 | Syria 's rehabilitation culminated in a November meeting in Geneva between Assad and United States President Bush . |