Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the major part of the College 's activities can be described as intermediate in level between those of a typical college of agriculture and a university department of agriculture offering degree-level courses . |
| 2 | Wages rose by 2 per cent for every 1 per cent increase in productivity according to figures for February , and unemployment rose in March by 63,000 to a total of 1,322,000 at the end of the month . |
| 3 | ‘ The semiconductor market also is being helped by the gradual global economic recovery that began in the US in the fourth quarter of 1992 ’ — remark that seems to ignore the fact that continental Europe is plunging into ever deeper recession while the jury is out on whether recession has bottomed in Japan.The North American market should reach $23,600m in shipments in 1993 for a growth rate of 28.1% . |
| 4 | It is anticipated that the system will eventually further develop , in addition to that of a paper-less system , to include , for example , automatic payment of any interim interest due on CDs or provide an automatic ‘ parcelling facility ’ . |
| 5 | It is beyond doubt that the service was meant to be a social institution with aims in addition to those of an economic nature . |
| 6 | After all , one way of looking at it is that the job of the community worker is no different in kind from that of a revolutionary cadre . |
| 7 | After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) . |
| 8 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 9 | It recognised that the plan to reduce the size of the armed forces between 1992 and 1995 would inflate the normal 1,000 leavers in Scotland in 1993 by a further 500 compulsory redundancies . |
| 10 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 11 | Both were assassinated in Washington in 1976 by a car bomb [ see pp. 28273-74 ; 34989 ; 36097 ; 37709 ; 37914 ] . |
| 12 | The outbreak of nationalist fervour that followed these events was the impetus for the meteoric rise of Mussolini 's new party , the Fascists , formed in Milan in 1919 with a grand total of 145 men . |
| 13 | Father Morrow , 58 , a native of Paisley , arrived in Braemar in 1980 as a priest at the village 's St Andrew 's Church . |
| 14 | The Emperor Leopold stayed in Prague in 1680–1 during a plague epidemic in Vienna . |
| 15 | With no game this weekend the Manor Ground was closed for business … but the directors were working overtime in the boardroom … sorting through thirty applications for the manager 's job … they 've drawn up a shortlist … four men are being interviewed over the next couple of days … who are they … the club are keeping the names a secret … we reckon Chris Nicholl … the former Southampton manager is still in the running … so too is the former Sunderland and Bristol City chief Denis Smith … the fans favourite is Mark Lawrenson who was in charge of United for a short spell before he fell out with Maxwells and the fourth man … is a mystery … could be the dark horse the names of former England keeper Ray Clemence and one time Villa striker Peter Withe have been under discussion … all will be revealed later this week … |
| 16 | ‘ Budyko thinks climate change is the best thing since sliced bread , ’ said a US scientist at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva in 1989 in a conversation with the author . |
| 17 | The support staff is tiny in comparison with that of a Cabinet Minister or US President — about eighty staffworking in Downing Street of whom the great majority ( about sixty ) are clerical and secretarial staff , messengers , clerks , or administrators of the machine . |
| 18 | The total milk yield might seem small in comparison with that of a Holstein at an average of more than 4,000kg per lactation , but the solids content is very high , with an average 5.3 per cent butterfat , so that the total yield of solids compares favourably . |
| 19 | Does my right hon. Friend agree with the comment made on Sunday that we should not commit ourselves now in advance of 1997 to a single currency as a point of agreement that all sensible people could hold ? |
| 20 | The equipment listed was in use in 1989 for a maximum of 30 windsurf guests . |
| 21 | The reader might verify this useful formula in which it is evident that the inverse of a matrix of order n is obtained in terms of that of a matrix of smaller order ) . |
| 22 | Now the District Council is thinking in terms of this as a reason why perhaps sixty ac sixty hectares may not be entirely enough and we should seek to compensate for transfers out of industrial land . |
| 23 | Incidentally , in the eighteenth century Lord Darlington had a herd of Galloway-type cattle ‘ finely globed with red and white ’ , while in 1821 William Cobbett described the herd of Lord Caernarvon at Highclere , Hampshire , as white hornless ‘ Galways ’ with black or red spots varying in size from that of a plate to that of a crown piece , and some without spots . |
| 24 | As well as the transformation of the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes into real parks , as opposed to an ‘ arid waste covered by trees ’ ( the words were the Emperor 's ) , an attempt was made to endow all the areas of the city with small squares , which were in essence miniature parks ranging in size from one-quarter of an acre to six acres . |
| 25 | In 1696 Louis agreed to give the duke the title of " Royal Highness " in all public acts and to treat his representatives in France as those of a monarch . |
| 26 | If the youth was left to find his or her own employment , the visitor was to persuade the parents to forgo the relatively high initial earnings of blind-alley jobs in favour of one with a more permanent future . |
| 27 | I 've got to be back in Oxford by four for a meeting of the Research Fellowships Committee … |
| 28 | In bed by ten with a bottle of port , no question . |
| 29 | The slow-moving five-foot lines are unexpected ; the dignified quatrains make for a cumbrous narrative style , which is alien in spirit to that of a medieval ballad . |
| 30 | A full inspection of a primary school will , of course , differ in scale from that of a large secondary school . |