Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , Sarah was involved in a long-term relationship with Paddy McNally while Andrew still had a soft spot for Katherine ‘ Koo ’ Stark , an American actress who had excited considerable media interest because of her appearance in soft-porn films . |
| 2 | A major problem with traditional Marxist analysis is that by laying all sins at the door of capitalist development , it fails to explain what keeps the periphery in a long-term relationship with the centre , since there appears to be little in the relationship for either partner . |
| 3 | In order to raise the $1.43bn ( £837m ) needed to finance the takeover , County organised the country 's largest ever rights issue for Blue Arrow , which was launched in a revised form with Manpower 's approval on 21 August 1987 . |
| 4 | They are in a smallish courtyard with parking space for perhaps half a dozen cars . |
| 5 | Some of the landlords had reduced or cancelled the rents this year ; but his , a near-bankrupt squireen in a mouldering mansion with half its roof gone , could afford no abatement . |
| 6 | Any such attempt will necessarily result in a segmented Community with some countries further progressing towards integration while others become satellite economies . |
| 7 | Try to lock your bike to something immovable like a railing or lampost , preferably in a well-lit area with people around . |
| 8 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 9 | They explain that the patient is engaged in a legal battle with his brother over some land . |
| 10 | Its members will also assist Somervillians interested in a legal career with advice and offers of work experience and mini-pupillages . |
| 11 | Each is furnished in a modern style with private facilities and at least one balcony . |
| 12 | In a modern room with large windows , there is often little space for wallmounted radiators or skirting convectors . |
| 13 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 14 | Waterford Area came up trumps last year in a classic encounter with Dublin Ladies but Dublin are poised this year to make their mark . |
| 15 | That over I can remember nothing until I awoke in a pleasant ward with three other mothers who had already seen their offspring . |
| 16 | His 500-page Modern Gas Producers , which for many years was the standard work on the gasification of solid fuels in a fixed bed with a mixed blast of air and steam , was published in 1923 . |
| 17 | Carzo and Yanouzas suggested that if work is organised on the basis of small groups or project teams ( therefore narrow spans of control and a tall organisation structure ) group members would be able to plan their work in an orderly manner , encourage participation by all group members in decision-making and monitor the consequences of their decisions better , so that their performance will be more efficient than the work of groups in a flat structure with a wide span of control . |
| 18 | Aunt Tinty , an amiable half-wit , keeps house for him and sings sentimental songs in the gloaming ; her daughter , Margaret , is a heavily pregnant , rather mannish woman doctor whose husband is far away ; her son , Tom , is an eternal and drunken medical student , engaged in a squalid affair with the woman at the village pub . |
| 19 | ‘ I think you can create an old but light feeling in a Georgian house with modern furniture if it 's designed the right way . |
| 20 | " You 're in a right state with yourself , are n't you ? " declares the official . |
| 21 | Schrödinger imagined an experiment in which a cat was placed in a sealed box with a sufficient supply of air to last it for the duration of the experiment . |
| 22 | If we are in a happy partnership , whether married or living in a close relationship with a man or woman , retirement years are a time to look forward to and for doing things together . |
| 23 | Finally , in the Indian sub-continent , India was involved in a close relationship with the USSR , and Pakistan with the US and also with the People 's Republic of China . |
| 24 | Again he dashed away and held on in a close finish with Atlee Mahorn , who was desperately trying to salvage some Canadian credibility out of the evening . |
| 25 | He fined himself a week 's wages for joining in a shouting match with Linfield officials after Tommy Leeman was booked for a tackle on Lee Doherty . |
| 26 | The solicitor , Gerard Friel , 47 , had been out walking his dog when he was involved in a shouting match with two youths near his home , the High Court in Glasgow heard yesterday . |
| 27 | A cat lay outside the front door , one of its eyes protruding in a grotesque bubble with the iris leering darkly from its rim . |
| 28 | In Italy his partner was the surrogate Scot , Joe Baker ; at Manchester United he teamed up in a devastating triumvirate with George Best and Pat Crerand , and at international matches he was part of a group of wayward senior players including Billy Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone . |
| 29 | She had the same tall grace and was equally good looking in a gentler way with great soulful eyes . |
| 30 | Discovered alone in a remote cottage with a young female whose brother had once described her as ‘ a don , alas , but a dish when she takes the trouble , ’ had he quite deliberately misled the newcomer ? |