Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 2 | Belov had studied her and contrived her release … and for him it had ended with his body face-down in the icy waters of the Neva . |
| 3 | She fumbled for the torch , and thumbed over the button with a chilly hand , and the cone of light spilled over a man 's body , face-down in the shallow water , glistening under the abrupt brightness in violent projections of black and white . |
| 4 | You will also catch a glimpse of the Big Wheel in the famous Peter fairground . |
| 5 | Under sail the yacht can be enjoyed from behind the wheel in the spacious cockpit , or when the weather gets nasty there is a second steering station with complete instrumentation and controls under the dodger . |
| 6 | And the motorist who changed a wheel in the fast lane of the M Six . |
| 7 | There is no indigenous Welsh wheel in the Welsh Folk Museum so I would certainly feel that your wheel came from the Bristol builders . |
| 8 | Personally , I had thought that it was the bunch of madmen from the Labour party who ran the borough in the old days . |
| 9 | A benign clinical course was associated with : absence of immunoreactive HBcAg or active cirrhosis in the native liver , as well as the presence of HDAg in the native liver . |
| 10 | West Indian cricket has been strong for so long principally because it is looked upon almost as a religion in the Caribbean . |
| 11 | As he reflected on the brutality of what he had seen done in the name of religion in the Civil War , Taylor asked himself , ‘ If persons be Christians in their lives and Christians in their profession , … why should I hate such persons whom God loves and who love God , because … they have not the same opinion as I have ? ’ |
| 12 | What makes religion news will be the focus of a new study on the role of religion in the mass media at the University of Colorado , USA . |
| 13 | SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION |
| 14 | Harsher penalties in particular could help foster a tough , ‘ macho ’ criminal self-image in the young men who predominate in the criminal statistics . |
| 15 | Kenny Mathieson meets Matthias Bamert preparing to conduct the RSNO in the Scottish premiere of a little-known work |
| 16 | Fortunately she had an order for a full-length wool coat and dress , and worked in happy isolation in the small room at the back of the shop , her mind lingering on the implication of Penry 's invitation as her fingers flew independently to finish the order for a customer due to return to the States a few days later . |
| 17 | The Ryvoan Bothy , nestling in splendid isolation in the Ryvoan pass |
| 18 | And despite massive obstacles — the destruction caused by the First World War , the ravages of a civil war brought on by the support that foreign capitalists lent the savage counter-revolutionary efforts of Russia 's defeated classes , international isolation in the inter-war period , the appalling destruction wrought by Hitler 's rapacious invasion , the sustained hostility of the capitalist West — a socialist society was built . |
| 19 | The glow from the furnace in the steam-filled room was like the flames of hell licking out to show her the place where her father had gone . |
| 20 | This allows the water-retaining sponge in the sole plate to operate efficiently . |
| 21 | It provides a restitutionary remedy in the following terms : |
| 22 | I am still under the influence of Milton 's potent spell cast in the first two books and have been unable to find a successful remedy in the following books to bring . |
| 23 | In fifty millesimals , when you are sure that the organic destruction has been checked , you can administer the same remedy in the centesimal scale : you can now use it without the slightest aggravation , the patient can be cured . |
| 24 | Dearlove 's analysis of local government reorganization in the early 1970s , The Reorganization of Local Government ( Cambridge , Cambridge University Press ; 1979 ) is particularly important because it encourages a political analysis of change and develops an impressive critique of more traditional or orthodox approaches . |
| 25 | They had remained friends thereafter , each possessed of a vague disappointment in the other for which they blamed themselves . |
| 26 | The continued process is often accentuated by disappointment in the other because of an earlier idealization . |
| 27 | There had been deep disappointment in the Conservative Party with the results of their own reform of local government . |
| 28 | After becoming a socialist in the early 1880s he retained what he called ‘ an Englishman 's wholesome horror of government interference and centralisation . ’ |
| 29 | But Muawad spent his first year in Parliament as an exile in the Syrian port city of Lattakia , after a member of a rival family accused him of taking part in an inter-clan clash in June 1957 near Zghotra in which 16 people were killed . |
| 30 | Now , however , he , Alfred and their sister Godgifu were abandoned to what must have looked like permanent exile in the Norman court ; Edward was doubtless on his way there when he visited the monastery of St Peter 's Ghent in December 1016 and , according to a charter , promised them English lands should he become king . |