Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person 's dependence on his lineage in such a system would be comprehensive as there would be no other means of livelihood and protection . |
| 2 | Although you have to cart the cylinder around with you , there is a bonus in that a blowtorch can be used upside down to get under a pipe which is being fitted in situ ; turning a cartridge-fed blowlamp upside down can cause problems as it will flare . |
| 3 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 4 | A company operating in such a society must realise that the extended family means that the decisions on consumption are taken in a larger unit and in different ways . |
| 5 | He was concerned that to include the large Asian countries in such a scheme would introduce problems that the small nations could find difficult to resolve . |
| 6 | A cat in such a situation may perform a strange , throaty YOWLING noise . |
| 7 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 8 | However , the hidden messages in such a question may be of some importance in terms of conditioning the consciousness of the — largely working class — students for whom CSE mathematics courses are intended . |
| 9 | But surely the activity of a postman in such a void would be utterly futile and valueless . |
| 10 | But even if Kants idea of a unitary space is granted , it is still not entirely clear how places in such a space can act as a principle of individuation . |
| 11 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
| 12 | Further , any person contemplating publication of statements in such a discussion would face duplication of the proceedings and increased costs in any case where the allegations made do identify an individual councillor or officer . |
| 13 | The shadows of a mouse projected upon the wall in such a way could make us believe a monster lurked around the corner . |
| 14 | Bürger in such a context would assimilate both ‘ realist ’ and ‘ modernist ’ art to autonomous and bourgeois art , the only distinction between them being that modernism with its inaccessibility and greater cult of the creator is even more autonomous , more ‘ auratic ’ , than realism . |
| 15 | As a matter of fact there 's pride , pride in that a picture can get away from the lollipops and still be inoffensive and commercially pleasing . |
| 16 | It is logical to ask whether attenuation of soft X-rays in such a wind might account for the dividing line . |
| 17 | In its pure form a listing of all the terms in such a language will only remain current until the next batch of documents is added to the system . |
| 18 | It is true that the claim in such a case can be distinguished as being proprietary in nature . |
| 19 | On 7 June an emergency meeting of the NSFU Executive was held at which Father Charles Hopkins , standing in for the absent Havelock Wilson , pointed out the disastrous financial effects which participation in such a stoppage might have on the union and the peril in which it might stand in respect of its hard won provincial settlements . |
| 20 | But , even within such a system the role of nations was not likely to be central because the main players in such a game would be units far larger than the states that most of the characterist , ie , separatist , nationalist agitations of the late 20th century were designed to form . |
| 21 | Of course , the main criterion governing the probability of success in such a strategy will always lie in the ability and the accuracy of the spin bowlers used . |
| 22 | ‘ Highlighting sexual harassment in such a way can have a totally detrimental effect , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Both Bachofen and Morgan believed that , since you belonged to the group by virtue of being your mother 's son , women in such a system must have a particularly high status . |
| 24 | It would appear that tenants are bound by the provisions of the Act and could therefore be affected adversely by it , but it remains to be seen as to whether a tenant in such a position could maintain an action against its landlord for breach of the landlord 's covenant for quiet enjoyment where there is no reservation of such a right of access in the tenant 's lease . |