Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this double success hope must have been high that a solution in the case of the general quintic would soon be forthcoming . |
| 2 | Last season there were also two one-cap players at Sussex , by P.W.G. Parker has now moved to Durham ( who incidentally now regularly field a Smith , a Brown and a Jones in the same side : truly a classless county ) . |
| 3 | The world is becoming increasingly interdependent and an improvement in the standard of living of Southerners will be advantageous to the North . |
| 4 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 5 | ‘ Just hanging there from one of the beams , swaying as free as a leaf in the wind . |
| 6 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 7 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 8 | It is arguable that a decline in the traditional role of the military nobility in war was presaged by the ever-greater use made of artillery , that most ‘ un-noble ’ and indiscriminate causer of death , which claimed among its victims several great noblemen , among them the Bastard of Bourbon , killed at Soisson in 1414 ; Thomas , earl of Salisbury ( ‘ a worthi werrioure amonge all Cristen men … slayne at the sege of Orliaunce with a Gonne ’ , as the author of the Brut reported the event ) ; John Talbot , earl of Shrewsbury , killed at Castillon in July 1453 ; and Jacques de Lalaing , ‘ le bon chevalier ’ , killed in the very same month at the siege of Poeke , near Ghent . |
| 9 | The House of Lords held that a provision in the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 that required track owners to provide available space for bookmakers on the track , was passed for the benefit of the race-going public rather than bookmakers ( Cutler v Wandsworth Stadium [ 1949 ] AC 398 ) . |
| 10 | The price has doubled since Iraq invaded Kuwait and now it 's going up fast though with traders convinced that a war in the Gulf is inevitable . |
| 11 | Like an agent , a distributor will usually be a local firm or individual and a specialist in the requirements of the local market . |
| 12 | His voice quiet but as winding as a blow in the solar plexus , he invited , ‘ Tell me more about your mother , Luce . ’ |
| 13 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |
| 14 | In contrast , the contributors to this book , whilst differing between themselves in many respects , share both a critical refutation of the manner in which the inner city has commonly been taken as unproblematic and a belief in the need to use the vocabulary of popular debates to propose alternative conceptualisations of urban crisis and to subject current policy to critical examination . |
| 15 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 16 | With the wisdom of hindsight it 's obvious that Mark Ring , who in his Pontypool days looked as if he might be the answer to all our no.10 prayers , was unfit and a liability in the match against Australia . |
| 17 | Our cells may be cold as a dip in the sea , but our hearts are still warm , thank God . ’ |
| 18 | This room is as cold as a cabin in the frozen woods , but it is not so cold as the heart of the person to whom I gave my love , my hope , my talent . |
| 19 | Stuck in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside with hundreds of noisy incomprehensible children and colleagues who make me feel about as comfortable as a walk in the rain . |
| 20 | This will ensure that the augmented tableau is not primal feasible and a pivot in the added row will make the slack variable non-basic . |
| 21 | There is a decrease with age in the percentage describing their health as good and a rise in the percentage reporting poor health ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 22 | Quotes also a useful tool — not yours , but those of a satisfied customer , of the person concerned or an expert in the field . |
| 23 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |
| 24 | The captain was as happy as a pig in the mire . |
| 25 | There was melancholy and a feeling in the air of being cheated . |
| 26 | As immediate as a kick in the shins . |
| 27 | With design in Germany racing forward , some of their ideas for coordinating fabrics in the bedroom with colours in your wardrobes can create an image which is as cool as a stroll in the Black Forest . |
| 28 | On a glorious day like this , who could wish for anything more delightful than a walk in the park and a chance to share the secrets of Rainbow 's heart ? |
| 29 | At last , she reached a wall , waist-high , stone-built , below which stretched the shore , as pale as a seashell in the moonlight . |
| 30 | But choosing that particular moment to do it was a rebuff as callous and shocking as a slap in the face . |