Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1	A prime minister who sought to push an unpopular agreement through was assassinated but a religious nationalist in March 1951 .
2	The public 's HSE expectations are continually rising and a progressive improvement in industry 's performance will clearly be called for .
3	Despite being ‘ bound to the king by right of blood ( iure sanguinis ) before all other prelates of the realm ’ , as Henry III put it ( Close Rolls 1256–9 , p. 486 ) , Roger appears to have played but a modest part in affairs of state .
4	Once this was discovered , the amount of oxygen given to young babies was carefully monitored and a dramatic fall in the number of cases resulted .
5	This reflected in part a widespread criticism of psychiatry as paternalistic and socially controlling and a growing interest in the civil tights of under-privileged groups .
6	His approach to economics and sociology tended to concentrate on personalities or small groups , rather than broader analysis , and he took but a limited interest in the philosophical aspects of history .
7	The other readily agreed ; a few needles were inserted and a dramatic change in posture was quickly and effortlessly effected .
8	They do n't appear good enough to win the title yet with a crop of youngsters emerging and a new maturity in central midfielder Dennis Wise , they are hard to beat .
9	On the other hand … if the artist becomes but a mechanical cog in the constantly revolving schedule , then the show becomes something less than artistic .
10	Surplus junior posts were to be converted to consultant posts , with additional service work being met by the new staff grade and a small increase in the number of senior house officers .
11	Tomorrow 's figures from Southern Electric promise a modest increase to £16m at the interim stage , while expectations at Southern Water have been dampened and a slight fall in profits to £60m is forecast .

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