Example sentences of "in [det] [noun sg] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some radio stations are run by public corporations with a degree of operational autonomy from government , on paper at least — as in Malawi , Ghana , Nigeria and Zimbabwe — but in each case a greater degree of government control exists than is true of the BBC , which provided the model for the corporations of these countries . |
| 2 | Development on the Glasgow and Gateshead sites has been slower , partly due to the effects of the recession , but in each case a mixed economy of houses and offices is planned . |
| 3 | This juxtaposition of the myth of Athena growing a beard with the strategies Mira employs to bolster Willy 's ego points to the fact that in each case a female voice transforms itself into a voice men will trust . |
| 4 | Where action did occur , in the USA and Italy , in each case a central government initiative drove the process of local reform . |
| 5 | In each case a small working party met within SHHD over a period of a number of months . |
| 6 | Only in two of the 93 patients who had both endoscopy and colonic assessment was colonic neoplasia ( in each case a small <5 mm adenoma ) found to coexist with an upper gastrointestinal lesion ( a gastric ulcer and grade 2 oesophagitis ) . |
| 7 | This meant that in each case a secondary modern school which would have been too small to survive was absorbed quietly and without fuss into the grammar school , which did not bother to change its name . |
| 8 | If I did not believe that the answer to these questions was in each case a resounding yes I would have found it very difficult to give these lectures . |
| 9 | In each case a different meaning is attached to the act of lighting a candle . |
| 10 | In each case a detailed problem list was establish , and the therapist also tried to understand the reasons for the behaviour . |
| 11 | It 's like a scene from a play , Culley thought , and in each performance a different extra takes the victim 's part . |
| 12 | In each subject a minimum fo six hours of recording was analysed . |
| 13 | Portal sculptures , wall paintings and mosaics created in each church a pictorial record of the Bible stories and teaching . |
| 14 | The International Verification and Monitoring Commission ( Comisión Internacional de Verificación y Seguimiento — CIVS ) was to be established , and in each country a national reconciliation commission was to be set up to monitor compliance with internal aspects of the plan [ see pp. 35890-95 ] . |
| 15 | In each room a naked bulb hung from a flex above the metal cots . |
| 16 | He should include in each demise a small number of spaces the availability of which the tenant can be sure . |
| 17 | Biography is in that sense a convenient fiction since no one can probe , without the risk of farcical failure , those hidden perceptions or experiences which run alongside the observable life but may not necessarily touch it . |
| 18 | Until 1936 , the other rural counties in the District were regarded as ‘ open territory ’ but in that year a partial relaxation over public expenditure restrictions occurred and the issues inherent in the compromise over the rural areas agreement between the Cambridge Board and the District emerged in sharply focussed ways . |
| 19 | In that year a regional office was opened in Newcastle , providing easier access to their ground for staff working in north-east England . |
| 20 | In that year a new law was passed to make divorce easier and simpler . |
| 21 | In that year a senior master and professor of psychology , Eliot Hearst of Indiana University , wrote in a long review article : ‘ About the only way a current computer program could ever win a single game against a master player would be for the master , perhaps in a drunken stupor while playing 50 games simultaneously , to commit some once-in-a-year blunder … |
| 22 | In that case a married woman , Mrs. Duval , gave security over her property , limited to £1,000 , to secure her husband 's business debts to Turnbull & Co . |
| 23 | In Prussia , too , there was legislation to encourage the smallholder , but the motive was in that case a different one : peasants were supposed to make better soldiers . |
| 24 | I threw that one back even faster , because in that moment a new shock struck at me — proving that bad things do come in threes . |
| 25 | Satellite surveillance is all very well , but it takes time to get information back and in that time a naval force can have moved a fair distance . |
| 26 | And in that time a whole regiment of cavalry could have got away . |
| 27 | In another trial a systematic attempt was made to investigate the effect of proximity between subjects . |
| 28 | We hear of ‘ an elderly woman … set upon by a gang of young ruffians who knocked her down and stole a bag of provisions she was carrying ’ , and in another case a 17-year-old youth was charged with assaulting an elderly woman on Bank Holiday night : ‘ Both her eyes were blackened and there was an abrasion on her nose . ’ |
| 29 | Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries . |
| 30 | In another incident a 12-year-old Newton-le-Willows boy suffered minor burns after falling onto a bonfire and in Halewood a 40-year-old man went to Whiston Hospital after suffering slight burns . |