Example sentences of "in an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horses communicate these feelings , and many others , in an abundance of ways : with smell-messages , or pheromones ; by calling to each other ; visually , by general body tone , and by specific movements or expressions ; and through taste and touch . |
| 2 | Except at weekends in the summer when the crowds would come and spread themselves in an abundance of activity on the grass . |
| 3 | Although the liquidators did not have to release the transcripts , this could result in an injustice to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 4 | The parents and four children — three boys and a girl — lived in an air of smug bourgeois prosperity and Catholic pedagogy , not unlike the cameos of their more famous namesake , James Joyce , in the earlier chapters of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . |
| 5 | Hector , aware of the change , sat up on the bed , following the direction of his mistress 's altering gaze with his head cocking , in an air of puzzlement , from side to side . |
| 6 | He said he would urge Mr Gorbachev to end the arms supply to Nicaragua and , in an escalation of the war of words , Cuba . |
| 7 | In an escalation of the confrontation , the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet voted in closed session on May 21 to rescind the 1954 decree ceding the Crimea from Russia to Ukraine [ see p. 13507 ] . |
| 8 | Serb rebels shelled the Adriatic port of Zadar in an escalation of fighting with the Croatian army , Croatian state television said . |
| 9 | One idea is to use a red , green or blue reflector behind each LC pixel in an analogue with colour TV tubes . |
| 10 | This intuitive account would require , in an analogue of consciousness for which program-level reduction could provide a necessary condition , but no more , that there be access from a higher to a lower level of programming language in certain , yet to be specified , circumstances . |
| 11 | Antrim , Northern Ireland , to ask if I can suggest a suitable chip for use in an analogue to digital converter . |
| 12 | rapt , in an integument of ice |
| 13 | I remember meeting him at about 6 o'clock one morning in an airport in the United States . |
| 14 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 15 | The experiment has resulted from the steady progression towards each other of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus and the azure-winged magpie Cyanopica cyana , culminating in an overlap in ranges over the past 20 years . |
| 16 | Kelly , of Gainsborough Avenue , Maghull , was given a new liver in an operation at Kings College Hospital a week ago . |
| 17 | His League career ended prematurely last season when he lost three pieces of bone in an operation on his right ankle . |
| 18 | His League career ended prematurely last season when he lost three pieces of bone in an operation on his right ankle . |
| 19 | According to Dr Tanner in The Lancet of 1849 , ether used in an operation on the vagina of a prostitute incited ‘ lascivious dreams ’ . |
| 20 | A hospital spokeswoman said it was very pleased with the progress made by Philip O'Rourke , from Donegal Town , who was given a new kidney in an operation on Tuesday night . |
| 21 | In an operation on July 15 intended , according to the USSR Interior Ministry , to confiscate illegally held weapons in three Azerbaijani villages with large Armenian populations , four people were reported killed and the population of the villages was driven out . |
| 22 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |
| 23 | 1 knew how he felt , for in an operation like this nerves take over and you rest so heavily upon the skill of the dispatcher that you ask his permission even to breathe . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's always a risk in an operation like this when the bitch is elderly , but she ca n't go on — it 's now become urgent . ’ |
| 25 | Some reports claimed that the Khmers Rouges had used tanks in an operation around Pailin . |
| 26 | Pennethorne was called to explain his proposals , and in an appendix to the proceedings , Molesworth said that after considering Inman and Phipps 's report , he ‘ proposed to commence immediately with the Foreign Office ’ . |
| 27 | Local political behaviour shows a similar path — in an appendix to the Widdicombe Report on the Conduct of Local Authority Business ( 1986 , Cmnd 9797 ) , Miller argues that variation in local voting can increasingly be attributed to specifically local factors , and Jones and Stewart also show how since the mid-1970s local factors have increasingly influenced the results of local elections . |
| 28 | In addition , a summary of those sections of the Act concerned with admission of patients to hospital , or detention of patients already in hospital , which are relevant for attempted suicide patients was provided in an Appendix to that chapter . |
| 29 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their applications to UCCA through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London as listed in an appendix to the UCCA handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania and Thailand . |
| 30 | In an appendix to his book , Atkinson surmises that the Horngarth may have originated in a hedge bounding the abbot 's right of way . |