Example sentences of "in [noun] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , in case a sudden movement on his part might break his fragile control over his own legs , Hugh bent slightly so that he could see under the chest . |
| 2 | On December 24th in Moscow a Ukrainian member of the Congress of People 's Deputies rose to welcome Croat and Slovene moves towards independence , but he was shouted down . |
| 3 | ‘ Already there seems to me to be in existence a new kind of human being who is living ahead of the meaning of our time , knowing only that meaning has to be lived before it can be known . ’ |
| 4 | It was revealed last night that Acklam Park in Middlesbrough a regular venue for Yorkshire County Cricket Club for the past 30 years is the subject of an offer from supermarket giants Argyll . |
| 5 | Certainly in Newham a higher proportion of eligible sample members were admitted to institutional care straight away in the control sample than in the action sample ( 35 per cent compared to 20 per cent ) ; the hypothesis is not supported in Ipswich however , where 31 per cent in the control sample and 37 per cent in the action sample were admitted straight away . |
| 6 | In Sunderland a single parent in her late teens told me . |
| 7 | ‘ Behold your prince and sovereign ! ’ he cried , indicating his nephew and receiving in response a tumultuous roar of approval . |
| 8 | In response a Serbian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina was declared by ethnic Serbs who feared separation from Serbia proper , and who had boycotted the Feb. 29-March 2 referendum on independence [ see p. 38832 ] . |
| 9 | This national policy was in part a semi-conscious response to an intense awareness of vulnerability , to the threat of cultural imperialism and loss of national identity . |
| 10 | The feminist take-up of hygienics was in part a skilful form of campaigning , involving an imaginative reworking of dominant knowledges . |
| 11 | The chief implication of his findings was that although Leese was the dominant personality of the movement , the literary output usually ascribed to him was in part a joint enterprise of the literary board . |
| 12 | ( Penley 1988 , p. 11 ) Teresa de Lauretis has described this shift towards a greater interest in reception as in part a delayed effect of feminism 's construction of a new social subject — women — who may be and are legitimately addressed in cinematic practices . |
| 13 | The position of the followers of Barth represents in part a theological reaction to the sort of pressure that theism has been put under by the philosophical school associated with Ayer , ‘ logical positivism ’ . |
| 14 | Thus in France a quickening movement favouring patronal associations in the 1890s was in part a defensive response to a trade union movement which was about to adopt an ideology of radical syndicalism that appeared more threatening . |
| 15 | It was also probably in part a defensive measure on the part of the ego itself . |
| 16 | A staple feature of Soviet bureaucracy is overlapping responsibility ( particularly at intermediate levels ) : in part a natural consequence of size and complexity , in part a way of ensuring consultation and coordination ; it is also the Party 's tried and trusted technique of divide and rule . |
| 17 | This reflected in part a widespread criticism of psychiatry as paternalistic and socially controlling and a growing interest in the civil tights of under-privileged groups . |
| 18 | Typically , its social effect was highly ambiguous : this placing of the private at centre stage was in part a flight from harsher social conditions , in part a coded opposition to them : ‘ glam rock revelled in a display that was intent on demonstrating that the assumed ‘ privacy ’ of sexual matters then being so fervently insisted upon by Mrs Whitehouse , was an illusion' . |
| 19 | In addition a General Directory of Latin American Archives has been launched for which 30,000 archives will be put onto a database . |
| 20 | It has in addition a resplendent meaning in that life before retirement is only childhood and the period of retirement is the time when we reach maturity and realise the full significance of life . |
| 21 | In addition a special series of graded poll-taxes for famine relief began in February 1922 . |
| 22 | Some are unwanted high parity conceptions ; in addition a high proportion of abortions at this age are carried out because a congenital malformation has been diagnosed in the foetus . |
| 23 | In Manhattan a fellow dashes about claiming he is the grandson of Balenciaga . |
| 24 | For it is in essence a political crisis without an economic crisis . |
| 25 | Is that in essence a central datum of Catholicity ? |
| 26 | The stratified approach to Urban Programme funding , with in essence a fourfold division of councils — Partnerships , Programme Authorities , Other Designated Districts and traditional Urban Programme councils — was effectively to be abandoned . |
| 27 | Called morote-gari , which means double hand reap , the throw is in essence a refined version of a rugby tackle . |
| 28 | In Berkshire a working group of advisers and head teachers has produced a draft document summarising the duties imposed by the 1981 Education Act , the help and resources available to enable governors to carry them out , and specimens of statutory returns . |
| 29 | But in practice a certain period of time may elapse before the authorities are able to recognize that a problem exists . |
| 30 | In practice a great deal of discretion is exercised by the Revenue with regard to this section , but to avoid an unexpected tax liability in relation to the transfer by the husband of the former matrimonial home to the wife the husband is well advised to consider making his election within the two-year period . |