Example sentences of "[verb] in [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British have never been caught in such a web of debt with no hope of escape . |
| 2 | However , early on , as he introduced the superposition principle , Dirac would break in half a piece of chalk . |
| 3 | She had no idea why Lucenzo should be remotely interested , or why he was waiting in such a fever of anticipation for her answer . |
| 4 | Liza , distraught at the news , came home on compassionate leave , which she spent in such a state of shock and distress that Harriet began to feel that the sooner she returned to her duties the better . |
| 5 | When you have thought about all these things , when you have fully absorbed into the darkest parts of your mind the sub-human horror of them , you will realize , must realize , with the blinding force of a revelation that I could not by the very nature of my soul be so implicated in such a maze of lust and filth . |
| 6 | Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined . |
| 7 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 8 | and find in this a kind of consolation . |
| 9 | With every breath we should take in half a litre of oxygen , twenty per cent of which goes to the brain . |
| 10 | Such ‘ ownership ’ of plans would give the school a clearer and more unified sense of purpose and direction and reduce the stress felt in such a time of educational change . |
| 11 | I think that people live in such a world of fantasy around what they think is going on and kidding themselves that they have some ‘ control ’ , that a kind of chink in the armour like that is terrifying . |
| 12 | One of nine lenders advertising in half a page of the Daily Mirror in June 1990 asked |
| 13 | If the whole garden was covered in such a layer of rubbish , she would be mad to dig it . |
| 14 | If you are using dried yeast , measure four tablespoons of the onion liquid into a small bowl and stir in half a teaspoon of caster sugar . |