Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solicitor employed by a non-lawyer may not carry out professional work for any person other than his employer ( ie working directly with the employer 's clients is not permitted ) but may act for a company or other organisation controlled by the employer or over which the employer has substantial control or for a company in the same group as the employer or which controls the employer . |
| 2 | The number of children at the school may have dropped considerably either through competition from other schools or through a fall in the number of children of school age in the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | The perch lays eggs around 2mm in diameter in long strings as flat bands or as a meshwork in the vegetation . |
| 4 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 5 | ( b ) a contract of engagement , in which the individual engineer , either self–employed as a consultant or as a partner in a partnership , provides specialist or general professional services to a client . |
| 6 | Briefly , it is how the composer , like the author of a sentence or of a line in a poem , groups his ‘ words ’ in order of importance so that they make sense . |
| 7 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This can be cooked in a large pan on top of the oven or in a casserole in the oven . |
| 10 | They can be put in a timber floor or in a trench in a solid floor . |
| 11 | Nowhere are they more telling than in Ashton 's Enigma Variations where they explain the sympathy felt by Jaeger ( the critic ) for Elgar and his Wife or in A Month in the Country where Ashton communicates the growing feelings of love and frustration of the participants . |
| 12 | The decentralized Evans model underestimates the amount of material which lies unused in departments for long periods of the year and which might be of value to another discipline , or to a pupil in the enquiry mode ; it certainly contains no element which would stress interdisciplinary thinking , inter.departmental cooperation or the sharing of acquisitions and experience . |
| 13 | Occasionally we would meet by accident in the corridor or at a bend in the stairs or out in the street . |
| 14 | We now write unc so that each square matrix is null except for a unit in the appropriate diagonal position . |
| 15 | The third column of B is then null except for a unit in the position corresponding |
| 16 | The house was dark except for a light in the kitchen . |
| 17 | He had contacted UNIT HQ and had confirmed that for a period in the 1970s and 1980s there had been a scientific advisor to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart . |
| 18 | It is thought that for a house in the high-rate stratum the assets are about four times as great as for one in the low-rate stratum , and that the stratum standard deviation is proportional to the square root of the stratum mean . |
| 19 | They show an African head and the story behind these is that during a battle in the 15th century , when all the Pucci adults were killed , an African slave hid a baby of the family under her garments and fled via an underground passage , thus saving the Pucci line and earning herself a place in the family 's heraldry . |
| 20 | Ethiopian radio reported that during a ceremony in the office of President Meles , Carter had said that he was ready to make his own contribution to convince the World Bank , the IMF and other international organizations " to take part in the country 's economic reconstruction " . |
| 21 | Newman argued that as a commitment in the light of evidence that can not be treated as proof , religious belief is like rather than unlike other forms of belief . |
| 22 | We tend nowadays to see these generations not merely in terms of the underlying electronic technology , but also in terms of the organization of the hardware and software involved in a computer system ; thus the transition to the fourth generation can be seen more as a change in the way that computer systems are organized ( with the use of such techniques as virtual storage and distributed intelligence ) , than as a change in the underlying technology . |
| 23 | This shows that after a freshening in the early 1970s , the salinity ( and temperature ) began to increase in the early 1980s , although not to the same level as in 1970 . |
| 24 | Yesterday , the Rev John Russell , the committee 's chairman , said that with a slump in the number of parish ministers from 2,750 in 1929 to 1,259 in 1991 , there was no slack left for a further reduction in parish work . |
| 25 | Once he was in power , this alternative view would argue , his policies were more consistent with a belief that it was still feasible to salvage some kind of organic link between France and Algeria than with a belief in the inevitability of complete rupture . |
| 26 | And what is more , I might never ever have to look at German again except on a menu in a restaurant on the Rhine where we might go , like other people do , for a real holiday instead of borrowing mildewed cottages and cardboard holiday-houses from people to whom we than have to be disproportionately grateful . |
| 27 | In this way he saw that Man was truly made in the Image of God : ‘ The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception , and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ’ ( Biographia Literaria , xiii ) . |
| 28 | Glycollic acid could be a precursor for the petrochemical feedstock , ethylene glycol but it is also a useful chemical in its own right , serving as a descalent and as a mordant in the dyeing industry . |
| 29 | Erm as a candidate and as a pre-candidate in the period up to the campaign , I have been a er a parliamentary candidate twice , in nineteen eighty seven in Stockport and in nineteen eighty three in Denton and Reddish . |
| 30 | What is now commonly described , in English cultural history , as ‘ William Godwin and his Circle ’ , is an especially interesting example , both substantially and as a problem in the analysis of formations . |