Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new release enables System 3000 users to connect to multiple servers in a multi-windowed format on their screen , accessing multiple databases and applications from different sources simultaneously . |
| 2 | After all , Sarah was involved in a long-term relationship with Paddy McNally while Andrew still had a soft spot for Katherine ‘ Koo ’ Stark , an American actress who had excited considerable media interest because of her appearance in soft-porn films . |
| 3 | A major problem with traditional Marxist analysis is that by laying all sins at the door of capitalist development , it fails to explain what keeps the periphery in a long-term relationship with the centre , since there appears to be little in the relationship for either partner . |
| 4 | Thus , for at least one member of the coordinating committee the project was but one stage in a long-term plan for radically heightening both the performance and the visibility of the school library service . |
| 5 | The choice of Mr Bernerd ( who recently hit the headlines in connection with the case of ex-Heritage Minister David Mellor and Ms Antonia de Sancha ) as the company 's financial backer , seems to have been an uneasy choice and has not resulted in a long-term commitment to the gallery at a difficult time for the art market . |
| 6 | Nicholas engaged in a long-term programme of social engineering . |
| 7 | MORLEY STREET handed out a length beating to younger brother Granville Again in a stirring finish to the Coral-Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 8 | In a diagrammatic representation of a fault tree , we would see at the top the main failure that concerns us — in this case ‘ loss of electrical power to the engineered safeguards features ’ . |
| 9 | Now more and more of us are sampling what other countries have to offer : countries such as France which makes hundreds of cheeses , in a mouth-watering variety of shapes , textures and tastes . |
| 10 | But not in a boastful sort of way , only because I asked her . ’ |
| 11 | He began to realize the possibility that he was being taken for a ride , that he was the stooge in a deadly game in which he was not being allowed to play a part . |
| 12 | It was the noise of something stretching and straining under enormous , impossible pressure ; as if the very fabric of that wall must suddenly explode inwards , enveloping them in a deadly blast of shattered brick and concrete . |
| 13 | There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied . |
| 14 | Leith was still puzzling at it when , bathed and dressed in a silky-finish dress of deep amber , she brushed her hair . |
| 15 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ On the pendulum of self-exposure that oscillates between aggressively exhibitionistic Mailerism and sequestered Salingerism , I 'd say that I occupy a midway position ’ , explains Roth in The Facts — in a prefatory letter to his alter ego of earlier books , the novelist Nathan Zuckerman , who is granted a letter of reply at the end of this one and a perusal of the intervening narrative . |
| 17 | In a prefatory note to his first novel he told his readers , ‘ Except the hero and heroine , and those points of the work which supply the slight plot of it , as a novel the work itself is materially true , especially in the narrative of sea-adventure , most of which did ( to the best of our recollection ) occur to the author . ’ |
| 18 | England also developed the Gothic style early ; in a transitional form at first , but , by 1200 , all the characteristics of the Gothic form were fully evolved . |
| 19 | The east end of the Cathedral is Gothic , but the long nave is still Romanesque and the transepts are in a Transitional form of the style ; the two parts of the cathedral form a marked contrast , particularly inside the building , and a useful study . |
| 20 | Furthermore , my passport was lost in a postal strike in France , and the wheelbarrow was not yet ready , Hawker Siddeley having been hampered by staff shortage and technical snags . |
| 21 | Members of the Transport and General Workers ' Union are taking part in a postal ballot after a breakdown of pay negotiations . |
| 22 | COURTAULDS Packaging Colodense has come top in a prestigious survey of major flexible packaging companies in the UK . |
| 23 | MARTIAL arts expert Tony Carter beat international competition to win the top prize in a prestigious contest in Sweden . |
| 24 | She fumbled feverishly in a fancy box on the table for a paper handkerchief . |
| 25 | The conception of the centrality of literature could be tacitly and uncontroversially assumed in a 1919 bulletin of the Association where the general goal of promoting " the exact study of our literature which the English Association has at its heart " is simply stated as self-evident . |
| 26 | The fights apparently took place every Sunday morning in a Muslim cemetery in Old Delhi : ‘ Bahot acha event hai , ’ said Balvinder . |
| 27 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 28 | This , together with higher recession-related expenditures on unemployment and social security benefits , was projected to result in a revised PSBR of between 40bn and 50bn by 1993/4 . |
| 29 | In this article I shall examine the correspondences between the William Smith harpsichord and the instrument seen in the Handel portrait , enquire into the probability of Handel 's ownership of that harpsichord , and place the harpsichord in a revised understanding of the instrument-making traditions of the period . |
| 30 | It makes its road debut in a revised Griffith in March next year . |