Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teams of under-11 boys and girls , five of each on the pitch in a 10-strong team and eight of each in the squads of 16 , will play a series of games starting at 1pm on Saturday and 10am on Sunday . |
| 2 | This can be especially true if you are a woman who is unused to making sexual demands , or if you are already in a long-term relationship when you begin to ask for safer sex . |
| 3 | Now these men were involved in a long-term operation and total secrecy was essential to its outcome . |
| 4 | The accompanying article stated that many UNTAC officials saw the hardline Khmer Rouge position as designed to undermine its rivals " in a long-term strategy that looks beyond the [ May 1993 ] election period and is aimed ultimately at a unilateral seizure of power " . |
| 5 | ‘ Some'ow I ca n't see you in a woolly 'at an' bedsocks . ’ |
| 6 | As the armed alliances of Europe , intertwined in a deadly dance and wrapped around with train-timetables , struggled into the nightmare to come , nobody realised what modern war was going to mean , least of all Lord Roberts . |
| 7 | They also made a good point , that all timber-frame houses should be formally recorded as such either by the NHBC or on the title deeds , ‘ so that people realise they are living in a timber-frame house and can take professional advice when making alterations ’ . |
| 8 | This is particularly important in a three-act ballet where any temptation to display dance ‘ for its own sake ’ can lead to the introduction of divertissements merely to fill in time or show off all the dancers in the company , but is not concerned with the unfolding of the story . |
| 9 | At the same time let your hands lift up in a semi-circular motion and come down to your sides . |
| 10 | David Lynch follows BLUE VELVET with a controversial winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes , a scarifying mix of extreme violence , mordant wit and laid back , absurdist humour in which road movie meets chase thriller and sweaty erotic romance in a joky narrative that playfully confounds audience expectations and genre conventions . |
| 11 | When he next turned his attention to the matter , The Times leader writer had to explain to his readers that the law of debtor and creditor was as yet only in a transitional state and that a very unsatisfactory one . |
| 12 | According to a Rwandan radio report , the Republican Democratic Party ( MDR ) , the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party agreed to participate in a transitional government if certain commitments were incorporated in its brief . |
| 13 | Fledglings are in a transitional stage because they ca n't quite fly yet but there having to learn how to feed and their parents are teaching them . |
| 14 | The team is still in a transitional phase but there are a number of very talented players in their line-up . |
| 15 | People must have the right not to belong to a union , but where more than half the workforce demonstrate in a postal ballot that they want to belong , they should be allowed bargaining rights . ’ |
| 16 | Erm I do n't think it assists at all in terms of location and I think it is a strategic matter however in terms of erm the structure plan and would probably be best incorporated into policy H two in a revised form and I suggested . |
| 17 | One of the craft was in a mighty hurry when he set Judas for Jesus at John vi.67 , as happened in 1609 ; and so was his descendant in 1653 when , at Corinthians vi.9 , he pronounced that ‘ the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God ’ , which must have been a great comfort to a considerable number of citizens under the Commonwealth . |
| 18 | His hands windmill in a frenetic semaphore and his body shifts in ceaseless motion , with a life of its own . |
| 19 | I glimpsed Lady Francesca , resplendent in a sea-green dress and cloak and small hat of the same colour , but for the moment , my lust had subsided . |
| 20 | Capacity to learn about associations in the world is clearly of great value in a variable environment and appeared at an early stage in animal evolution . |
| 21 | It did however reflect a sense of Britain 's central role in a world-wide economy and permitted individuals to believe they could contribute to a good cause without relying upon government or becoming enmeshed in politics . |
| 22 | Indeed , in a skilful team that has ‘ got it together ’ , the role of leader is relatively redundant . |
| 23 | There were horse-drawn vehicles , and when the Governor arrived to open the island 's parliament he drove in a stately coach and four . |
| 24 | After much remonstrating during which I was told very kindly and politely that there was no problem , till I felt like tearing my hair out , I was sent to sit in a corner ( just a woman you see ) and Mr Fleming was ushered off to meet an official , rush off somewhere and come back with a piece of paper which was duly stamped , passport returned , and off we went to meet our contact , who explained in a jocular fashion that I was the problem . |
| 25 | Park in a well-lit area or use an attended car park and never leave your parking ticket in the car ! |
| 26 | He must not sneak over them in a halfhearted way nor must he be allowed to flatten over them . |
| 27 | Above all , what needs to be explained is how we distinguish between places in a phenomenological space and places in an objective space . |
| 28 | Adam pulled her from her chair , undid two more buttons , quickly unzipped her skirt : Miranda was left standing in a daffodil-yellow camisole and black high-heeled boots . |
| 29 | His wrists are in a cocked position and he has no time to release the clubhead with any force . |
| 30 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |