Example sentences of "in a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | can be green or black and are a collection of aromatic seeds contained in a pod which must be split to release the full flavour . |
| 2 | In Tessa Boffin 's five figure Knight 's Move in a cemetery there is a female , somewhat butch , knight-in-shining-armour to set alongside the Knave , the Angel ( very female ) Casanova and the Lady-in-Waiting . |
| 3 | In a jungle whose oppressive steam-heat made sweat run inside her steel breastplate , she cut the throats of three befeathered priests . |
| 4 | In a clearing there was the scattered skeleton of a horse , the skull some way from the rib-cage and the leg-bones further off . |
| 5 | In a sacramentary he is shown being crowned by Christ , and in a book of pericopes ( biblical extracts ) which he gave to the cathedral of Bamberg , Christ is crowning Henry with one hand and his wife Kunigund with the other , while the patron saints of Bamberg , Peter and Paul , look on . |
| 6 | The well-tempered individual 's ability to maintain order is precarious when he is located in a terrain which is uncontrolled . |
| 7 | I lived in a nursery which smelled of boredom and liniment . |
| 8 | In a night-club you could show me how you chat-up . |
| 9 | The players and officials enjoyed a cold buffet lunch in a marquee which also took two hours but included a number of speeches and a Loyal Toast . |
| 10 | ( In a sequel he proposes to pursue the role of anatomy and natural history in the history of art . ) |
| 11 | In general this book is written in a register we consider appropriate for a textbook of this type . |
| 12 | If you are on your own in a hovel it is nothing other than miserable . |
| 13 | Revised maps were published and the revision was summarised in a memoir which appeared in 1899 , dealing with the whole region . |
| 14 | But even so , there was not what could be described as an irrevocable Protestant march towards Reformation ; the new activity of 1558 took place in a Scotland which was still largely Catholic . |
| 15 | Bradford Northern8 WIGAN , whose mastery of the understatement off the field rivals total dominance on it , secured their third successive Stones Bitter Championship on Saturday in a performance which , after boiling over at the start , gently simmered into a nine-try rout . |
| 16 | The American conductor John Canarina also pointed out that in a performance he attended at Tanglewood in 1965 and in a recording he made with the Chicago Symphony , Munch made two cuts between figs. 110 and 128 ( in the Durand score ) . |
| 17 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 18 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 19 | This is a bit difficult , I think , to follow , and what Proust means perhaps becomes clearer in a story which he himself told on more than one occasion about the painter Turner . |
| 20 | They seem almost magical in themselves and once incorporated in a story they are guaranteed to weave a web to catch and hold us . |
| 21 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 22 | There are extraordinary cases , however , and in a story anything can happen , even the digestion of tables . |
| 23 | Many have been taught that in a relationship they have no right to make demands on a partner ; to say clearly what they want may lose his affection . |
| 24 | Very soon the computer world which we associate with work , word processors and video games will start connecting us to our TV in a relationship we 've never had before . |
| 25 | ‘ It was the result of a breakdown in a relationship which caused both parties a lot of hurt and pain . ’ |
| 26 | When she married she continued to use these techniques although they were no longer relevant in a relationship which required different skills , but for her , this was a foreign country . |
| 27 | Reciprocation is inherent in a relationship which is an act of giving from above and of receiving from below . |
| 28 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 29 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 30 | Expressions for the components of the Weyl tensor 0 , 2 and 4 describing the wave and interaction components have been given by Chandrasekhar and Ferrari ( 1984 ) , though in a notation which differs slightly from that adopted here . |