Example sentences of "in an [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eldest son was killed in an air raid on Liverpool in 1941 , the second died in Australia in 1973 , the third ( aged nine months ) in 1909 , and two of her daughters in 1948 and 1967 respectively . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the church was severely damaged in an air raid in 1944 but has now been rebuilt to the original design . |
| 3 | In an air attack on the way back he had been killed while firing away at the fighters who were strafing his truck . |
| 4 | I got clipped in an air strike on the first day . |
| 5 | When Liz 's parents had both been tragically killed in an air crash over Paris Liz — an eleven-year-old orphan — had come to live with Laura and her parents in the old stone manor house , part of a large estate which had been in the Harding family for generations . |
| 6 | After Zia was killed in an air crash on Aug. 17 , 1988 , the acting President , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , ordered parliamentary elections to be held on Nov. 16 . |
| 7 | He was all the more able to claim the triumph for himself in view of the fact that General Mola , leader of the Army of the North and " Director " of the 1936 conspiracy , was killed in an air crash on 3 June 1937 . |
| 8 | Victor Cazalet was Tory MP for Chippenham from 1924 until his death in an air crash with General Sikorski in 1943 . |
| 9 | Heston succeeds Senator John Tower , who was tragically killed in an air crash in Brunswick , Georgia , April 5 . |
| 10 | The defendants to proceedings begun in New York by the families and personal representatives of persons killed in an air crash in Scotland in 1988 applied for an order under the Act of 1975 for the examination of a retired Crown servant who during his period of employment as a senior forensic scientist had conducted an investigation into the crash . |
| 11 | The current head of state , Joaquim Alberto Chissano , succeeded Mozambique 's first President , Samora Machel , who was killed in an air crash in October 1986 [ see p. 34791 ] . |
| 12 | ‘ Miss Gandell 's parents died in an air crash in 1968 , when she was five . |
| 13 | Seventy people have been killed in an air crash in Macedonia . |
| 14 | The Coventry , Ardent , and Antelope were all sunk ; many Welsh Guardsmen , waiting to land , were killed or maimed in an air assault on the Sir Galahad at Bluff Cove . |
| 15 | The first pack of Desert Rats is now trying to cope with the soaring heat of Saudi Arabia ; about four hundred troops in the seventh armoured brigade began arriving there today in an air lift from Germany . |
| 16 | The diver who found her body — John Farrar — broke a 23-year silence to claim that Mary Jo Kopechne was kept alive in an air pocket inside the senator 's car . |
| 17 | Sanjurjo had been killed in an air accident on 20 July , on his way to Pamplona to assume the leadership of the rising . |
| 18 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 19 | The former south London schoolgirl does n't look a day older than when she was spotted by a talent scout in an airport lounge at the age of 14 . |
| 20 | In a broken-backed 1892 edition of John Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine which I bought in an antiquarian bookshop in west Beirut , a volume with a faded title in gold on its pale red cover , I discovered an item entitled ‘ Muslim Arabs ’ . |
| 21 | He was put in an oxygen tent with alarms set up to go off if he stopped breathing or if the oxygen in his blood dropped too low . |
| 22 | Top-scorer was H.T. Hewett , one of the finest left-hand batsmen in England who scored 35 in an opening stand of 41 . |
| 23 | In an opening address to the session on Jan. 16 , Powell had expressed his conviction that " the period of confrontation in Europe must end " , and declared that " as senior military officers " of their respective countries , the seminar 's participants were " duty-bound to contribute to the historic process unfolding today across [ the European ] continent " . |
| 24 | Thatcher stated in an opening address to the meeting that the continued forward stationing of nuclear weapons in member countries which would be in the front line of a conventional war ( i.e. on German territory ) remained fundamental to NATO strategy . |
| 25 | In an opening address to the conference , Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke stressed that APEC had no " hidden agenda " and was a genuine attempt to encourage " open , multilateral trade " in order to prevent the world economy from fragmenting into " defensive trading blocs " . |
| 26 | The home attack held no fears for Mike Thomas who scored a fine 78 including 12 fours and shared in an opening partnership of 133 with Chris Minto ( 49 ) . |
| 27 | In an opening speech for the defence the devastation of their herd was blamed on a mountain of debt and overfeeding . |
| 28 | ‘ The reduction of our cost base combined with an increased output of 14.34 Terawatt hours resulted in an operating cost of 2.98 pence per unit , compared with 3.21 ppu last year . |
| 29 | By midnight I was in an operating theatre in Inverness having an ankle fixed . |
| 30 | The organs are removed in an operating theatre by a surgeon and the body is treated with respect throughout . |