Example sentences of "in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last creature who told me that is living in a green-grocer 's shop now . |
| 2 | ‘ A man in a witch 's hat ! |
| 3 | He also demonstrated that volume is a positive function of the logarithm of the number of traders , and a positive function of the logarithm of the strength of the information , that is , the size of the shift in a trader 's demand curve . |
| 4 | If you assumed this public culture reflected political actuality you would be living in a fools ' paradise , the reverse side of Thatcherland . |
| 5 | It would prevent our living in a fools ' paradise of false prosperity . |
| 6 | This entails in a carer 's words ‘ Living someone else 's life , thinking for two people ’ . |
| 7 | She smiled and said , in a boy 's voice , ‘ Hi . |
| 8 | A boy on a girl 's back , boy in girls ' shoes and a girl in boy 's shoes , girl in a boy 's sweater . |
| 9 | In a boy 's camp for Nazis |
| 10 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 11 | At a consultation you 're not in the vulnerable position that you are in a hairdresser 's chair . |
| 12 | The girl , on a youth training scheme , was waiting sullenly for an opening in a hairdresser 's . |
| 13 | My motto became : ‘ I am really a man trapped in a womon 's body . ’ |
| 14 | The maximum fine in a Magistrates ' Court for breaches of ss 2 to 6 of the Act and of other sections relating to breaches of improvement notices , and prohibition notices or court remedy orders , has risen to £20,000 and all other breaches of the Act or subordinate Regulations and other relevant legislation now incur a maximum fine of £5,000 ( previously £2,000 ) . |
| 15 | The committal — this is a preliminary hearing in a magistrates ' court and little information usually emerges at this stage . |
| 16 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 17 | There was no inherent or common-law jurisdiction in a magistrates ' court to order rehearing of a case which had already been decided ( R. v. Campbell , ex. p . |
| 18 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 19 | ( And never do this in court , not even in a magistrates ' court ! ) |
| 20 | However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors . |
| 21 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |
| 22 | Public law proceedings must be commenced in a magistrates ' court unless there are already public law proceedings pending in a county court or the High Court or the application is made by a local authority following a s37 direction to investigate made in family proceedings in either court ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) . |
| 23 | This applies whether an application for an emergency protection order is heard in a magistrates ' court , county court or High Court . |
| 24 | But every week , thousands of Multiple Sclerosis sufferers across the country take comfort from spending an hour in a divers ' de-compression chamber . |
| 25 | All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery . |
| 26 | So , although in all these three , kick the bucket , eat humble pie , get your knickers in a twist er all look like fairly complex transitive constructions . |
| 27 | I 'm gon na give his lecture or his talk which probably means I shall get my my tongue in a twist an an an and not quite see where I 'm going . |
| 28 | Here snack bars , kiosks , toilets , seats and other walker-orientated services would cluster in a pedestrians ' version of the motorway service station . |
| 29 | ‘ A man I know who works in a tailor 's shop in London backed Terimon in a forecast with Nashwan at 2,000-1 , ’ Brittain explains . |
| 30 | But er , it was just the thing , they thought inevitable in a tailor 's workroom . |