Example sentences of "[noun] in a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more like a gemstone which has been cut and faceted , so that each way it is turned shows a different angle , catching the light in a thousand different ways . |
| 2 | Though the move could help to speed up investment in a few large projects , there were fears last night that the sudden change in the offshore tax system could hit the bulk of the smaller oil and gas projects which were expected to provide most of the work for the offshore supply industry over the next few years . |
| 3 | It is impossible to convey to an outsider in a few short words the hothouse emotional atmosphere of such an establishment , with its all-too-conscientiously suppressed sexuality , and the consequent hysteria , or just plain silliness . |
| 4 | Their decision follows crowd trouble by supporters in a previous European Champions League match at Marseille last December , for which their punishment by UEFA was to play their home game against Rangers on 3 March in an empty stadium . |
| 5 | Their decision follows crowd trouble by supporters in a previous European Champions ' League match at Marseille last December , for which their punishment by UEFA was to play their home game against Rangers on 3 March in an empty stadium . |
| 6 | Perhaps , as ATP 's Weller Evans suggests , trying out a ‘ no let ’ rule in a few special matches or even among juniors might be worthwhile — a simple , sensible case of do n't knock it until you 've tried it . |
| 7 | The first exercise can now be taken further : establishing the figure in a few choice lines . |
| 8 | The first exercise can now be taken further : establishing the figure in a few choice lines . |
| 9 | To this end the investigator shall circulate a questionnaire to about 150 traffic officers and inspectors in a major provincial Police Force to look at : views on the impact of Fixed Penalty Notices on police/public relations ; officers ' workload ; officers ' exercise of discretion ; supervisors ' mechanisms for monitoring discretion ; views on the proper extent , limitation , acquisition and training of discretion ; and attributes of the offence and the offender which influence officers ' decisions . |
| 10 | Physical chemists like Vernon Harcourt in Oxford were just beginning to study reaction-mechanisms in a few simple cases in the 1860s , and at the same period in France P. M. Berthelot was performing total syntheses , and in Norway C. M. Guldberg and P. Waage discovered the Law of Mass Action governing chemical equilibria . |
| 11 | He strode past her , crossing the gravel in a few long strides to open the door of his car . |
| 12 | It is perhaps appropriate to stress again that where playwrights require pages of dialogue to explain every factor in the development of the plot , to create a changing atmosphere and to show how the actions affect the actors in the play , dancers can communicate whole passages of dialogue in a few expressive gestures woven into enchaînements . |
| 13 | The core of this project is a detailed investigation of the processes of social , economic and political change which are taking place in a few selected villages in the area from which the majority of Pakistani settlers in Britain originate . |
| 14 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |
| 15 | Treatment is usually a lotion which kills the lice and nits in a few easy applications . |
| 16 | It says avoidance of the substance causing the allergy is the first line of treatment followed by drugs , where possible , to relieve symptoms and by desensitisation in a few selected cases . |
| 17 | She crossed the room in a few quick strides , grasped the handle of the door set in the wall and pulled . |
| 18 | 18 Ross argued that an asset 's average long-term return is dependent on its sensitivity to unanticipated changes in a few economic variables . |
| 19 | She was a fund of knowledge in a thousand unexpected ways . |
| 20 | Pinochet Hiriart stated in his testimony to the committee in mid-January that the money , apparently used to buy out his share in a small bankrupt arms manufacturing company , was in fact a payment for three loans which he had personally secured in Europe for the company . |
| 21 | No. 11 Commando became involved in fighting the Vichy French in Syria , while No. 8 Commando took part in a few unsuccessful raids along the North African coast , transported into action by the Navy . |
| 22 | Four pupils of Denbigh High School are to take part in an unusual international communications project in Plymouth . |
| 23 | In this section the facility of the Laplace transformation technique will be demonstrated by applying it to find the transient response in a few illustrative cases . |
| 24 | You can use one guitar in a hundred different ways if you can hear the sound . |
| 25 | In addition , there is more provision outside the state system and residential services appear less integrated into wider family and community approaches than would be the case in a generic social services department in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | It is impossible to summarize the history of English towns in the late Middle Ages in a few convenient generalizations . |
| 27 | The milk sprayed into the bucket in a few short spurts and Piladu pushed the animal forward , let two heavily pregnant ewes push past him and reached out to grasp the wool of a lamb that was trying to jump the rail where the Captain and the Brigadier were leaning . |
| 28 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 29 | Everyone knew that delayed shock could affect people in a dozen different ways . |
| 30 | I tried to find a method whereby I could seize the effect of motion … how to arrest a movement in a few bold strokes , catching the passing moment and finding new forms … my goal was always to express emotion and experience with large and simple forms and clear colours ’ . |