Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday lunchtime was the only time Selwyn visited the pub , owing to the fact that he kept a fifteen gallon cask of cider in his garden shed . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you know my old man keeps a fifteen gallon cask of scrump in the shed ? ’ |
| 3 | Yes , I make this noise kind of thing in my throat and I say , ‘ I 'm just ready . ’ |
| 4 | The main insect enemies of timber in buildings are the death-watch beetle and the common furniture beetle and the two are often found together . |
| 5 | This is a case study of self-evaluation in a school using procedures of its own devising , rather than ones suggested by an LEA . |
| 6 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 7 | In these studies , however , the rise in PYY concentrations was not detectable until the end of a one hour infusion of oleate in the colon , and the highest PYY concentrations were not seen until one hour after the infusion had finished . |
| 8 | Educated at Llanwenog National School and at Llandysul County School , he won a scholarship in 1919 to Swansea Technical College , which became the University College of Swansea in 1920 , where he gained first-class honours ( 1923 ) and , in 1924 , an M.Sc. |
| 9 | The chairman of the panel was Dr Howard E. Morgan of the Pennsylvania state University College of Medicine in Hershey . |
| 10 | An unselected , but approximately consecutive , series of 44 patients was studied presenting with colorectal cancers between June 1989 and November 1990 to the University Department of Surgery in Liverpool . |
| 11 | Dynacord 's bass research has concentrated largely on speaker technology , and these units represent the company 's answer to the relatively slow response characteristics of speakers in the low frequency range . |
| 12 | The choice of diet — Two dietary factors — supplementing the diet with wheat bran and reducing the intake of refined carbohydrates — reduce cholesterol saturation of bile in subjects with supersaturated bile . |
| 13 | The mobile belts of Proterozoic times extended the length of what is now the North Atlantic , from east Greenland and Norway in the north , via the British Isles , Newfoundland and the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa in the south . |
| 14 | During her trials off the west coast of Scotland in 1989 , Upholder lost power when her propulsion control system failed to cope with a sudden switch from full ahead to full astern power , a problem which contributed seven months to the three-year delay in her becoming operational . |
| 15 | Without direction indication of attitude in Pitch and Roll , control displacements must be kept to a minimum at any one time . |
| 16 | It lies on the easter outskirts of Brighton in East Sussex , and today is the home of three Territorial Army units , each representing a different part of the Army . |
| 17 | For all these reasons the bargaining leverage of purchasers in some districts may be reduced . |
| 18 | The discussion between the teacher and the school librarian covered the content of the course being done by pupils , in this case aspects of pollution in cities , in the countryside and in the sea . |
| 19 | Mrs Hollidaye put her flowers in a tin bucket of water in the porch where other bunches of flowers were being collected . |
| 20 | Hungarian television also carried witness accounts of killings in Arad . |
| 21 | The project began in September 1983 by recruiting liaison groups of teachers in six LEAs in England and two in Wales . |
| 22 | The gas detection instrumentation supplier Neotronics Technology is to acquire the instrument division of Solomat in the UK , France and US for $5.5m ( £3.3m ) . |
| 23 | By plotting ring patterns of trees in this area , scientists can date ancient building timbers , and other wood artifacts , by comparing ring patterns with those of the bristlecone pines ( such studies have been given the name of dendrochronotogy . |
| 24 | It would have revenue effect of course in ninety four , ninety five and our future budget will have to reflect that . |
| 25 | Below them , from right to left , the river Forth ran to the sea : a silver inlay of zig-zags in a great plain chequered with corn and green mosses and the harsh buff and sliced resilient brown of peat-beds . |
| 26 | b By the age of 12 years old a child will have eaten about half a pound weight of coal-tar in the form of food colouring and dye . |
| 27 | On the North-East frontier of India in 1969 , where a ‘ potential Vietnam ’ was developing , political leaders were themselves astonished to meet at the MRA centre at Panchgani , changed , and worked out the formation of Meghalaya . ) |
| 28 | Club M'Diq is carefully sited on the Mediterranean coast close to the fishing village of M'Diq in the Rif region of that country , within easy reach of the exotic landscapes and fascinating old towns of Northern Morocco . |
| 29 | HILARY PARROTT enjoyed an overdue change of luck at Hereford yesterday when Dare Say took advantage of the last fence fall of Mweenish in the Hugh Sumner Challenge Bowl Handicap Chase . |
| 30 | ‘ The short term benefit of certainty in household budgeting can be more than offset by a nasty shock when the rate is revised , ’ said the Abbey , which adds that its research reveals no demand for budget schemes . |