Example sentences of "in an [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 2 | A man severely brain damaged in an operation more than twenty-five years ago , has lost his fight for compensation . |
| 3 | At mating , in an operation never exactly described , the sexes are said to bring their genital openings into opposition and release their gametes . |
| 4 | The girl 's face came alive , eyes sparkling , hands raised to her parted lips in an expression halfway between exultation and tears of joy , before she began to clap furiously . |
| 5 | If it is in an issue less than two years old , we 'll probably send you the whole issue as a back number . |
| 6 | He 's in an outpost up on Evelyn Street , and he 's seen the Sierra burning by . |
| 7 | During a near-faultless flight by the shuttle itself , a rocket failure left a $100 million tracking and data relay satellite ( TDRS ) tumbling in an orbit far short of its proper position , 36 000 kilometres above Brazil . |
| 8 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 9 | The blockage is usually caused by a blood clot forming in an artery already narrowed by fatty atheroma . |
| 10 | Nearly 21 per cent of Britons — 11,931,000 — are over 60 in an EC where numbers of elderly are soaring as life expectancy increases . |
| 11 | By the shortest sea route probably , because the prospect of flying in an aeroplane rather daunts me . |
| 12 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 13 | Living in an apartment again , with a proper bathroom , the sounds of street life , good food and a glimmer of daylight round the shutters , felt wonderful . |
| 14 | Whilst working , I stayed in an apartment only 20 minutes ‘ walk from Times Square . |
| 15 | In January this year those photos of Wyatt with Fergie and her children were conveniently found in an apartment once rented by the Texan and ended up with a newspaper . |
| 16 | And again , the Record Office is something that lay folk can just come in an look up books and ask questions if they wish to ? |
| 17 | Taylor long ago argued that the advantages emerged over several years of contact and that in an emergency most experienced doctors could successfully manage their patient 's problem . |
| 18 | Franks devised the ingenious formula that the use of the air bases in an emergency naturally remained " a matter for joint decision in the light of the circumstances at the time " . |
| 19 | So they , they , you see , that that that is in in an instant where it would have been enormously beneficial to have something to prevent the cold , |
| 20 | Some types of marine which do not survive well in an aquarium ie some Butterflies |
| 21 | Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective . |
| 22 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 23 | Now watch this cos it 's er , fairly takes your head , ears off , get it in an angle away from ya up here , that 'll do ya |
| 24 | A GARAGE owner was turned into a human fireball in an explosion yesterday . |
| 25 | Mrs Wilson sat in an armchair opposite . |
| 26 | When he emerged , Karen was sitting in an armchair opposite , clearly amused . |
| 27 | Meredith-Lee waved them to a comfortable sofa and sat down in an armchair opposite . |
| 28 | He was sprawled in an armchair opposite and the expression on his face clearly told her that he knew exactly what she and Jennifer had been discussing . |
| 29 | Ah , Gregory — ’ She received him grandly , seated in an armchair specially moved into the bedroom . |
| 30 | She was then put in an armchair only to be told a few minutes later that her operation had been cancelled because the hospital was ‘ short staffed ’ . |