Example sentences of "[adv] in a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am floating here completely alone in a Masai universe . |
| 2 | Crichton Smith avoids any overt psychological probing of Hector 's impulsive decision to flee his civilian job and join the army , of the sterility of his loveless marriage , and the contrasting warmth of his affection for his fighting men and presents instead a series of almost filmic images of orioles and hoopoes in the mountains of embattled Afghan istan ; of ghostly white dervishes attacking spindly-legged Sudanese troops ; and finally , of a heavy , tormented man , alone in a Paris hotel room , with nothing before him but disgrace and death . |
| 3 | Heather moorlands , many of the upland broadleaved woodlands , and some of the individual species dependent on these habitats , are of significance not merely in a UK context but in a Western European context also . |
| 4 | Teddy has lots of people to thank , including such nice FlyPast -type people as W/C Chris Booth of 8 Squadron who got him flying not only in a Shackleton , but in 8 Squadron 's new Boeing E–3 Spinning Coffee Table ; Teddy 's logbook itself came courtesy of Vulcan XH558 ; thanks also to Plane Sailing , Sally B , the Old Flying Machine Company , the Fighter Collection and the Shuttleworth Collection . |
| 5 | The same may be true of its addition to the 1018 entry that the meeting between Danes and English at Oxford agreed to observe Edgar 's law , which was probably taken from chapter 13 of the Letter of 1019 – 20 , now preserved only in a York manuscript , although there may have been a Worcester copy too . |
| 6 | Only in a Hollywood context could the film be called daring in its sexual attitudes and moral position . |
| 7 | Nurse Amanda Cadder saw the Essex post worker shot down in a Florida car park . |
| 8 | The Liberal Democrat leader said : ‘ They are on roads I would not drive along in a Land-Rover when I was sober . ’ |
| 9 | WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 10 | Even MTV has jumped on the bandwagon with The Real World , a show that chronicles the lives of seven kids rooming together in a SoHo loft . |
| 11 | Eric 's guitar sounded like two steel rail wagons clanging together in a Chicago freight yard at 4am . |
| 12 | His increasingly independent protégée locked herself away in a London dance studio for three weeks perfecting what was to be one of the most talked about dance routines of the pop year . |
| 13 | ‘ The most difficult thing in a situation like this , ’ says Jacques , ‘ is to find words that have n't been used already in a Feydeau farce , ’ as though imitating Feydeau 's words and situations was something that any fool could do . |
| 14 | The strong ‘ New York Mix ’ , with its vocals that shimmer through in a Robert Owens-style haze , is a step up for dub house garage and is matched by a gently acidic , dubbier epic and a ‘ Detroit Mix ’ with an intro and a forest of familiar sounds from someone heavily influenced by the dextrous inventions of Derrick May . |
| 15 | which was printed tonight in a Swindon newspaper . |
| 16 | Marktrace Projects Ltd is named tonight in a Thames TV documentary Raiders of the Rainforest for alleged misappropriation of a £20m loan . |
| 17 | If Doris Arthur came through with the script ahead of schedule , he could zip it over in a Poseidon wallet within twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | I see her in my mind 's eye always in a Fair Isle jersey . |
| 19 | THESE youngsters clearly agree with the title of Graham Taylor 's new book ‘ Football Training Can Be Fun ’ ( Stanley Paul £6.99 ) after a session with the England manager yesterday in a London park . |
| 20 | JACK KEARNEY , 70 , who was shot when Loyalists murdered his nephew in a butcher 's shop in Moy , Co Tyrone , three months ago , died yesterday in a Belfast hospital . |
| 21 | He is the first player to be sent off in a Manchester derby since 1974 , when both Lou Macari and Mike Doyle were dismissed . |
| 22 | In 1974 he was fined £75 and banned for three matches when he refused to leave the pitch after being sent off in a Manchester United match . |
| 23 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 24 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 25 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 26 | I am not sure whether John was aware of a tradition among some of his distant cousins that the family originated from Poland , possibly in a Count Cranko , romantically supposed to have been descended from the founder of the city of Krakow . |
| 27 | The little Japanese , Otaki , had holed his tee shot and would be going home in a Bentley Mulsanne . |
| 28 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 29 | Michael Schumacher was third fastest in a Benetton . |
| 30 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |