Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandholme and Hive are two hamlets side by side , where many years ago the inhabitants must have lived in blissful seclusion amid a farming community . |
| 2 | Taking minor ‘ tank ’ irrigation in Tamil Nadu as a case , the principle aims of the research are twofold : firstly , through historical research to understand the social and cultural systems which have sustained collective water management in the past and identify the socio-economic and demographic factors associated with their decline ; and secondly , through the comparative study of on-going programmes to suggest the necessary conditions for successful establishment of systems of community resource management in the present day social context . |
| 3 | He could n't remember the transition from sofa to bed , but he must have made it because he woke up there in total darkness with a headache and a blocked nose and a sense that something was not quite right . |
| 4 | The former included the North-West regional diploma in special needs , the first example of a course developed in total partnership between a university and a polytechnic which allowed students to take modules from either institution and also gave credit recognition to specific Open University and LEA courses . |
| 5 | The year-to-year change in total number in a population depends on two pairs of components : |
| 6 | It now boasts that it has reduced the number of defects in delivered machines by a factor of 10 , and cut production line defects by a factor of 13 . |
| 7 | Nigel sat in depressed silence for a while . |
| 8 | The back position can only be properly used in strong winds on a reach ; in lighter winds the board will just sit on its tail causing lots of drag . |
| 9 | Even on the Olympic Division 11 board , the water start is used in strong winds after a fall since it is so much quicker . |
| 10 | Features : include three exposure modes : manual , aperture priority and program which lets you point and shoot ; also has extra bright f/2.0 high resolution lens allowing the camera to be used in low light without a flash . |
| 11 | The seed corn left to accompany the dead could sprout again — as a boy , he had heard reports of successful experiments on damp rags in the dark — the coins for the ferryman , fallen among the collapsed lips and tongueless jawbones of the discovered dead , could be buffed and brightened until the curls in the hair of Demeter , caught up in rich ropes under a garland of corn floating with ribbons , gleamed glossily again , and the Cupid on Riba 's emblematic ship , facing out to sea with his drawn bow over the whorl of the prow , stood out in silver against the duller ground . |
| 12 | He sees Sweeney in broad daylight in a pub on Gerrard Street , ‘ I want you out here , Sweeney . ’ |
| 13 | The analogue signal was stored in digitised form on a computer hard drive . |
| 14 | For larger displacements the rotor and stator teeth become aligned in stable equilibrium at a distance which is a multiple of the rotor tooth pitch from the required step position . |
| 15 | William Francis Wilson , 21 , of Springwell Lane , Northallerton , was convicted of three charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm , jointly taking fish from private waters and fishing in private waters without a licence , fined £300 plus £155 costs , £740 compensation and bound over in the sum of £100 . |
| 16 | However , in private conversation with a friend , Aage Petersen , he went further and declared |
| 17 | They suggested a public investment programme which could be planned ahead to counteract the fall in private investment during a slump . |
| 18 | However , it will be evident from the figures that sole practitioners account for a disproportionate percentage of the responses in relation to the percentage of firms in private practice as a whole which they constitute ( 63% and 37% respectively ) . |
| 19 | For a variety of reasons , therefore , it is not possible to regard the overall figures for the consultation as statistically representative of the views of solicitors in private practice as a whole . |
| 20 | Then , in 1886 , he returned to Vienna and set up in private practice as a consultant on nervous diseases . |
| 21 | The relationship is analogous to that in private markets between a seller with no alternative customer and a customer with no alternative supplier . |
| 22 | Each Rolex watch is a celebration of skilled craftsmanship , a creation combining the foremost in technical knowledge with a design that is unparalleled for style and strength . |
| 23 | Jim has written , like myself his background is in technical writing for a living and he 's got ta particular interest in American writers and the use of American language er I gather . |
| 24 | Ellerman & Bucknall rounded off Canberra 's stay in memorable style with a brass band , drum majorettes and a pipe band performing as the ship left the quay . |
| 25 | That case involved a solicitor who was a salaried partner in the first of the firms involved in the case and an employee in sole charge of a branch office of the other firm giving undertakings to a bank to pay over certain funds which were shortly due to come under his firm 's control to the credit of individuals who were seeking loans from that bank , the undertakings being accepted as security for the loans . |
| 26 | While many spectators spend the afternoon guzzling champagne and waiting in orderly fashion for a glimpse of the Royal family , seasoned punters will be fighting for survival in the betting ring and jostling to see the equine stars . |
| 27 | To speak of these ‘ new styles ’ of politics is not , of course , to say that political struggles between classes have ceased , but only that they may now be modified by other kinds of political action and be less predominant in political life as a whole ; or to argue that the nature , aims and strategies of the principal classes have changed substantially , as Mallet and Touraine have suggested . |
| 28 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 29 | In Birmingham , R. W. Dale was pastor of Carr 's Lane Chapel from 1859 to 1891 and gained considerable fame for his theological writings , his involvement in political issues as a Liberal and his compilation in 1874 of The English Hymn Book . |
| 30 | What the media did not show was the concern of Spanish economists and financiers over rising inflation and a mounting balance of payments deficit ; the widening gap between conditions of life and work in town and country ; emigration on a rapidly growing scale ; or the conflict latent in Spanish universities between a desire for greater intellectual freedom and the constraints of an antiquated , paternalistic education system . |