Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [noun] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | These boards include head office and field representatives , who are responsible for recommending to the ES Executive Board the way forward in each case . |
| 2 | They will find their enemy the skua already in residence , having arrived a week or so earlier and practising his piracy harrying kittiwakes or puffins until the terns come back . |
| 3 | This stage , then , took our research a step further in that it penetrated the submerged section of the ‘ iceberg ’ and offered some insight into this large and hidden sector of users . |
| 4 | And we could produce more slate on erm thirty pound a week less in wages . |
| 5 | Even for the full Welsh side to beat Australia — let alone the second string-would have seemed an outrageous dream a year ago in the wake of humiliating defeats at the hands of the world champions , 63–6 on tour Down Under , and 38–3 in the World Cup . |
| 6 | In almost every case , there was burning resentment at a stress carried that the bearer was quite unable to disregard : bad marriage with one partner far too strong ; a dominant sister whose very existence seemed to crush ; an authoritarian mother who apparently allowed her child no freedom even in adult life . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister has the capacity to determine the scope of the various offices , or to take-over a department either in practice or by actually adding to his or her own responsibilities . |
| 8 | For them , the use of the term ‘ British ’ as a synonym for ‘ English ’ is an insult , a fact that English Conservatives sometimes overlook : introducing the poll tax a year early in Scotland was probably the worst blow to British unity in recent years , for it made the Scots feel they were being treated like second-class citizens . |
| 9 | France , Italy and Spain , on the other hand , have slowed sharply since last summer , with industrial output now below its level a year ago in all three countries . |
| 10 | ‘ My girl , Helen , landed on the deck a bit heavily in the jump-off of the Foxhunter and had to go home early , so I 'm without labour at the moment . |
| 11 | Manager Alan Murray had been looking for somebody to replace the unlucky Saville , who broke his arm hours after his Pool debut a fortnight ago in a freak restaurant accident . |
| 12 | Finely milled soap the lathers instantly in the shower . |
| 13 | I feel quite safe walking the streets here in the evenings . |
| 14 | It will probably cost the bridesmaid a lot more in back pain by the time she distributes them round the hall . |
| 15 | Benn won the title a month ago in Italy . |
| 16 | That could mean that , like America 's Federal Reserve , he will later be trying to jump-start an economy already in slump . |
| 17 | ‘ after consuming so much alcohol the proportion thereof in your breath ( blood or urine ) exceeds the prescribed limit ’ . |
| 18 | There is a recurrent failure not only to ground the subject fully in its historical context , but also to propose an adequate theoretical model by means of which to assess socialist realist literature . |
| 19 | Indeed I have managed to think of some ten things that have , in one way or another , made life a mite easier in 1992 . |
| 20 | The campaign for a national scheme of cash family allowances began in earnest with the formation of the Nineteen Seventeen Committee which became the Family Endowment Society a year later in 1918 . |
| 21 | That 's the fully multi-threaded stuff SunSoft promised its independent software vendors to the sound of blasting disco music a year ago in September . |
| 22 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 23 | One obvious and important change was that the emphasis laid on the effect of infant and child mortality on fertility a decade ago in Bucharest shifted to the effect of fertility and childbearing patterns on infant and child mortality . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal has taken the matter a step further in Shomer v B&R Residential Lettings Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 2 , by holding that in making the comparison with a hypothetical sick man , all relevant circumstances must be taken into account so that where , as in this case , there had been misconduct by the pregnant woman , the correct comparison was with a sick man who had also been guilty of misconduct . |
| 25 | He did really well as a novice a year ago in some top class races in Ireland and , although he fell at the seventh in last year 's Gold Cup , he should be a more mature horse and a better jumper this season . |
| 26 | For it was in the end a revolution only in thought , not in action . |
| 27 | After his speech the night before in the Academy , Brown had become an extremely unpopular figure amongst the ruling elite . |
| 28 | He recalled how on one occasion when on a sea rescue in the English Channel a person obviously in fear of drowning was shouting for help . |
| 29 | It is not so drastic a solution as our first all-in-the-mind theory which attributes to the wavefunction a significance purely in terms of human knowledge , for this third view takes the external world much more seriously as the origin of the chain of correlated consequence . |
| 30 | Its age old pre-historic instinct had brought it and many others to the spot a day ago in a bloody frenzy of feeding . |