Example sentences of "[pron] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American geneticist Curt Stern was the first to distinguish between these two ways in which a change in a gene can alter the resulting structure : he referred to them as changes in ‘ prepattern ’ and in ‘ competence ’ . |
| 2 | However , the method by which a change in predictable monetary growth leads to a change in aggregate real output is not the familiar one — a higher rate of growth does not fool people into supplying more output . |
| 3 | erm which a friend in London very kindly made for us because we were out with her , her mother |
| 4 | Their impact is illustrated by a case in which a clause in a bill of lading excused delay in discharge if ( 1 ) the port was inaccessible due to " ice , blockade or interdict " and ( 2 ) if the master deemed the port unsafe due to " war , disturbance or any other cause " . |
| 5 | Their match with Harrow was an exciting affair and a victory for the sort of positive leadership which a writer in these columns urged last month . |
| 6 | The journalists were mainly concerned to please their readers , and although there were good factual accounts in the Independent and the Times Educational Supplement there was little serious discussion of ways in which a curriculum in English affects our ideas of national identity . |
| 7 | I 'd like confirmation that he 's as crippled as he appears to be , because , much as I 'd like to , I can think of no way in which a man in his apparent condition could have pulled off this murder . ’ |
| 8 | The crash mayhem occurred after an incident at about 11am yesterday in which a man in his 20s allegedly tried to hold up a post office in Thelwall , Warrington . |
| 9 | The crash mayhem occurred following an incident at about 11am yesterday in which a man in his 20s allegedly tried to hold up a post office in Thelwall , Warrington . |
| 10 | The facility with which a fiction in the mind or on the word-processor can be altered means that the effect is nearly as ‘ evanescent ’ ( 169 ) as the fictions provided by the media . |
| 11 | Her instinct , almost irresistible , was to throw it at him , but she was fast learning that there were impulses which a person in her position could not afford to follow . |
| 12 | The hope is that unusually fruitful conferences such as this one , in which a course in the basics of immunology preceded seminars on the latest developments , and in which the participants in most part came from areas badly affected by the disease , will show us the way forward . |
| 13 | Ormrod J. , noting that this was ‘ the first occasion on which a Court in England has been called on to decide the sex of an individual ’ , felt constrained to find that ‘ legal relations can be classified into those in which the sex of the individuals concerned is either irrelevant , relevant or an essential determinant of the nature of the relationship . ’ |
| 14 | For fax has now arrived with a vengeance , doubling its United Kingdom sales annually and making possible a world in which a businessman in Croydon may instantly replicate his A4 thoughts complete with illegible signature — upon desks in Hull , Hoboken or Hong Kong . |
| 15 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 16 | Burgh councillors were particularly enthusiastic about the opportunities which a career in India might offer to their sons . |
| 17 | The Professional Association of Teachers has produced details of a particularly disturbing case in which a teacher in the independent sector was summarily dismissed very rapidly after making serious allegations against a colleague . |
| 18 | A Devon family has previously been reported in which a female in three successive generations has presented with multiple polyps requiring repeated surgery over a number of years . |
| 19 | As has been seen , the only ground on which a right in the strong sense can be defeated is an even weightier competing right advanced by another individual . |
| 20 | There is a procedure by which a plaintiff in a private action may be able to seek redress for a public law wrong even though he or she can not establish sufficient standing in accordance with the above rules . |
| 21 | His first exhibits at the Royal Academy were , in 1889 , a bronze bust of Lt.-Col. Myles Sandys , MP ; in 1890 a terracotta bust of his father ; most popular , a terracotta statuette of a Grenadier Guard , of which a copy in bronze was purchased by Queen Victoria and one hundred others by the regiment ; and the bronze statuette ‘ Il Penseroso ’ ( one of a pair ) which was also sold in large numbers . |
| 22 | It is not the sense in which a lamppost in the distance appears shorter than one a few feet away . |
| 23 | He was already a person of some eminence in Nonconformist circles , too ; he and his Methodist wife had enjoyed the distinction of being married by John Wesley in 1774 , and by 1799 he was himself a deacon in the General Baptist movement . |
| 24 | Perhaps the final irony was that Dubcek , himself a thorn in the side of Soviet authoritarianism , passed away on the 75th anniversary of Russia 's October Revolution . |
| 25 | In fact , Benedetti , himself a specialist in Caravaggio , did not recognise the hand of the master until the picture was taken down three years ago and he had an opportunity to examine it under a strong light . |
| 26 | He even got himself a VC in the most alarming circumstances , but that did not stem my tears that I shed for this man . |
| 27 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 28 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 29 | This friend , whose name was Beverley , had built himself a house in Caernarvonshire , near the Snowdon mountains . |
| 30 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |