Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greater and lesser frequency existed in about equal proportions , but nearly twice as many of this married population had intercourse only once a week , or less often , than had intercourse three times or more in a week . |
| 2 | It is essential that anaesthetized mice are kept warm on a heated pad under a light or preferably in an incubator until they recover consciousness . |
| 3 | Given the alternative of storage internally in the mind or externally in a file ( paper-based or computer-based ) external records are much superior for literal reproductions at least in western societies ( there is anecdotal evidence concerning illiterate traders in other cultures who seem to have remarkable memories for detailed facts and numbers connected with their personal business ) . |
| 4 | The latter validate courses in polytechnics and also in a number of the colleges of higher education ; they include courses leading to awards such as the Diploma of the Institute of Administrative Management ; the Diploma of the British Association of Occupational Therapists ; the Licentiateship of the Hotel , Catering and Institutional Management Association ; the Certificate of Qualification in Social Work ; and the Bilingual Secretarial Diploma . |
| 5 | If he knew what I wanted he 'd be out of the car and away in a flash of shock . |
| 6 | Of course there is also pantomime and now in a museum ! |
| 7 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 8 | You have a term and then in a middle of the term you have a half term do n't you ? |
| 9 | You can adapt the menus for eating away from home , i.e. at work or even in a restaurant . |
| 10 | Sometimes a doe will extend a dead end within a burrow and construct her breeding chamber ; more usually she makes a small hole either out in open terrain or sometimes in a hedgerow . |
| 11 | As the world 's longest-running film festival , we hope that our event can fulfil its role in Scotland and internationally in a city that film-makers and audiences from across the world want to visit . |
| 12 | From that site too come the Callanish eagles whose strength is not in flight , or size , or speed or skill but rather in a spirit whose power has been forget through time . ’ |
| 13 | Epithets such as " naughty " or " dirty " , or their implication , may result not only in a general feeling of unworthiness in the child but also in a sense that they apply to anal-genital matters as a whole . |
| 14 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 15 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 16 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 17 | the amount of work actually done was greatest in an autocratic group and least in a laissez-faire group . |
| 18 | There is an oscillation between light and darkness but no particular moment of time when day becomes night or night day ; as I walk across the landscape I may sometimes be on a hill top and sometimes in a valley bottom but at no point does the surface of the earth come to an end . |
| 19 | The information necessary to carry out the control function effectively is produced from a variety of sources and often in a variety of forms . |
| 20 | The Canadians arrived little more than 36 hours before their first tie and even in a bounce game against recruits at the army camp where they trained yesterday , they found it very taxing . |
| 21 | So presenting the centre line and okay we 're going to come on to the eye contact as well in a moment , presenting the centre line with eye contact means that it feels much more positive for the audience in terms of the delivery . |
| 22 | But a week or so in a holiday cottage is n't the same as becoming a permanent resident . |
| 23 | The gentle green-suited elephant is everywhere — on dressing gowns , duvet covers , nappies , plates , carpets , soft drinks , television and now in a feature film , ‘ Le Triomphe de Babar ’ , which had its world première in Paris last week . |
| 24 | Designer Nina Campbell has licensed the manufacture and distribution of her wallpaper and fabric designs to quoted group Osborne and Little in a cash deal expected to be worth £200,000 |
| 25 | Designer Nina Campbell has licensed the manufacture and distribution of her wallpaper and fabric designs to quoted group Osborne and Little in a cash deal expected to be worth £200,000 |
| 26 | In her doctoral dissertation and later in A Grammar of Metaphor , Brooke-Rose studies the mechanics of metaphoric interaction from a grammatical point of view . |
| 27 | In spite of the ructions that ensued when the announcement was made — namely IBM 's and DEC 's decision to cut Technology off , it managed to double throughput and more in a matter of months and has contributed around 20% of the spoils in ICL UK 's coffers . |
| 28 | Seasonal peaks are not specific to the service sector ; they are to be found in certain parts of manufacturing — particularly In food processing but also in a number of consumer goods industries -and in agriculture . |
| 29 | If you are the guest , then you can take refuge in the thought that once in a while you need a break , and you can always make it up tomorrow by being particularly good . |
| 30 | Boxes , portrait miniatures and then in a section of its own in the centre of the display , the works of Carl Fabergé in the high days of Tsarist glory . |