Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This account of the formation of nation states in Western Europe , and of the development of the sense of nationality as a fundamental social bond , is far more comprehensive and thorough than the rather abstract and historically restricted theories which purport to explain modern nationalism and the emergence of new nations in terms either of a reorientation of European thought , or of some general process of industrialization . |
| 2 | A NIGHTCLUB doorman was in a critical condition in hospital yesterday after a Belfast shooting . |
| 3 | Amnesty International declared : " Governments can not brush rape in custody aside as a lesser abuse or isolated act . |
| 4 | Chris Bailey , from Norwich , reached the semi-finals of the Masters on the French satellite circuit in Lille yesterday with a 6–1 , 6–2 win over Stephane Sansoni , of France . |
| 5 | It is safe to assume that these were prominent factors when Biggs was considered as a possible opponent for Mason who will go to his corner at the Royal Albert Hall in London tonight with a record of 31 professional victories , 30 inside the distance . |
| 6 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 7 | She spoke , Ruth thought , as if she were the mistress of a large establishment in London instead of a country vicar 's wife in a remote Yorkshire dale . |
| 8 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 9 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , that their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 10 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , who claim their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 11 | A 29-YEAR-OLD hotel manager appeared at a special court in Craigavon yesterday on a conspiracy charge . |
| 12 | The X-ray flux is so great when it emerges from the machine 's vacuum that it causes the air to fluoresce and , if focused , it can burn holes in paper rather like a powerful laser beam . |
| 13 | Professor Costall says it is very difficult to be accepted as a research scientist in Japan particularly as a woman . |
| 14 | This causes an immediate reduction in anxiety so in a sense the person is rewarded for running away . |
| 15 | But for QPR 's Les Ferdinand there was another dip in fortunes midway through a season that began with an international breakthrough . |
| 16 | Scotland 's Labour MPs gathered at their party headquarters in Glasgow yesterday for a four-hour post-election meeting but afterwards Mr Donald Dewar , shadow Scottish Secretary , dismissed talk of a split within the party . |
| 17 | The cost of improving coastal defences in Britain alone for a sea-level rise of 20–165 cm is put at ♯5–10 billion . |
| 18 | Kate has been overseeing an AIDS education course in Constanta together with a local representative , Ana Ureche . |
| 19 | Insolvency practitioners were warned to keep their houses in order ahead of a new regime of Department of Trade inspections due to start in Scotland this month . |
| 20 | On grounds of Christian justice there is an overwhelming case in Britain today for a fundamental reform of the rights , privileges and responsibilities of trade unions . |
| 21 | Australian TV is at present in turmoil precisely as a result of desperate overbidding . |
| 22 | SARAH BENTLEY , the 19-year-old No 2 seed from Surrey , won the BWTA Christmas tennis tournament in London yesterday with a 6-2 , 6-3 victory over Siobhan Nicholson . |
| 23 | OLYMPIC champion Finn Christian Jagge won the opening slalom event of the season in Norway yesterday with a combined time of 1min 40.01sec to win the event by .72sec . |
| 24 | AN Italian admiral laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Valletta yesterday in a gesture of reconciliation for the part played by Mussolini 's air force in the Axis onslaught on Malta 50 years ago . |
| 25 | Armed robbers have hit the Cotswold village of Broadway in Worcestershire twice in a week . |
| 26 | I stress that point because the fashionable view of some London-based political commentators is that regional government has become popular among Labour party members in England only as a response to the position in Scotland . |
| 27 | ANDREW CASTLE overcame the toughest hurdle yet in defence of his Volkswagen National championship in Telford yesterday with a gritty quarter-final victory over Chris Wilkinson . |
| 28 | BURLY rugby international Moss Keane was recovering in hospital in Dublin today from a vicious mugging attack . |
| 29 | The Tory Party Conference got under way in Bournemouth today amidst a huge security operation ; Sally Arthie was there . |
| 30 | Iran had boycotted the pilgrimage for the third consecutive year in protest both over a quota system limiting the number of pilgrims ( to an estimated 1,500,000 ) and over the Saudi ban on political protests during the pilgrimage . |