Example sentences of "[conj] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where in a hotel might you use CCTV to help you manage ( which is what efficient communication is all about ) ? |
| 2 | Prevailing weather conditions dictate if and where in a lake carp will feed . |
| 3 | His mother was ‘ outrageous with joy ’ at the return of her lost child , and put him to bed , where in a day or two he recovered . |
| 4 | At Nunney , there is evidence ( poorly recorded ) of another Orpheus mosaic , where in a band bordering a -central square are confronting pairs of large mammals . |
| 5 | From the House of Lords and the National Union he became a thorn in the flesh of the party leaders , where in a party government it would have been inconceivable that such a man , at the height of his powers and with powerful connections . |
| 6 | Since this is also something of a retrospective exhibition we have the much earlier painting of her Rome Studio in 1976 , where in a sequence of flat planes she explores every facet of light and the spaces between . |
| 7 | Sarah had previously suggested that they should try the effect of Queen Caroline 's ‘ Christmas trees ’ — young fir trees set in tubs and put upon the table or in a window seat and then decked with penny candles . |
| 8 | There 's always one to be heard somewhere during the summer — in the piazza in front of the art gallery and Town Hall or in a park . |
| 9 | Rachaela ate tomatoes on toast for lunch , and pictured Ruth eating her sandwiches on some wall or in a park . |
| 10 | There was open , if despairing , resistance in the plays of David Hare , Howard Brenton , or David Edgar , or in a realist film like My Beautiful Laundrette . |
| 11 | The most impossible situation will be fairly obvious — a warren system in a sheer cliff or in a hillside , within a railway cutting or a quarry . |
| 12 | The trouble is that when two people hop into bed together , whether it is after a disco in the West End of London , in an igloo in Greenland , or in a hut in Africa , the last thing on their minds is the opinion of a collection of ‘ VD ’ experts from the WHO in Geneva . |
| 13 | or in a film |
| 14 | Virtually anything , sweet or savoury can be transported safely ( and eaten deliciously ) between two slices of crusty bread or in a roll . |
| 15 | The development of major shopping facilities outside established shopping centres … or in a location or on a scale which would be likely to have an excessive impact on another established shopping centre should not be permitted . |
| 16 | They may be regarded as having been , at central government level , ideologically inspired : that is , undertaken either on the view that the possibility of rescuing a failed , conventionally organised enterprise would serve to promote Socialism in a neo-Marxist version of it absolutely opposed to Capitalism , and that the occasion was one which must not be missed even though the odds against success were heavy ; or in a spirit of uncritical idealism , sure that the ideology guaranteed success , that the gloomy appraisal was therefore wrong and the distinction between co-operative means and socialist ends a carping irrelevance . |
| 17 | ‘ I know that every time I mention sex in the press or in a song , the next few gigs I do , I 'm going to get stupid , sexist , sexual heckling from at least one dickhead in the audience . |
| 18 | Impressionist painting has always been associated with spontaneity with the artist standing on a river bank , or in a field in the countryside ; painting en plein air . |
| 19 | Obviously it is likely to be quiet in an empty hall or in a field ; it is likely to be noisy when a crowd of people are talking together all at the same time . |
| 20 | He wanted their gardener , Piet Kaufman , to pose holding a spade , and if possible in his own garden or in a field where he would feel more natural , but the fellow objected . |
| 21 | If conditions did n't improve soon she 'd be in very real danger of getting stuck in the snow — as it was she could n't have said with any real certainty whether she was driving on the road or in a field . |
| 22 | It seems unlikely , even if the copyright is transferred with the computer programs , that an intangible computer program resident on a magnetic disk or in a computer chip is a personal chattel , because copyright is a " thing in action " like company shares or a money order , to be contrasted with the more tangible " things in possession " such as motor cars or computers . |
| 23 | She was a woman of fine physical strength , ready to go out on foot or in a canoe when called for . |
| 24 | Thereafter , unless encouragement is given to publish the new knowledge , its role in the scientific communication process is as an item in a list , or in a subject bibliography , if that subject area recognises the value of thesis contributions . |
| 25 | This can be cooked in a large pan on top of the oven or in a casserole in the oven . |
| 26 | If you want to talk to gardeners it 's cheaper to address them on the gardening page of a newspaper or in a specialist gardening magazine than on television . |
| 27 | The cool thing would be , during the three-day end of year exams , when you 're allowed to do them at home , to be seen drinking the Students ’ Union or in a pub around here , being terribly laid back while everyone else was hunched over their desks in their rooms . ’ |
| 28 | Most of the discussion would have been marvellously unintelligible in a Basildon supermarket or in a pub in Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 29 | It follows , so it seems to us , that normally , when a film is being shown to a jury and the judge , in the exercise of his discretion , decides that it should be done in a closed courtroom or in a cinema , he should allow representatives of the press to be present . |
| 30 | ( a ) Unregistered land Collect the deeds and documents of title , or in a purchase of part , a marked abstract . |