Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason often lies in an over-eager management who are continually hounding the PRO for more column inches or to keep up with the supposed coverage of competitors . |
| 2 | So if you plug in an old Strat it will probably sound more like a Strat should sound . |
| 3 | The unfortunate animal in question is incarcerated in a closed box which also contains a radioactive atom with a 50-50 chance of decaying in the next hour , emitting a y-ray in the process . |
| 4 | All that is happening in a beautiful country which has been the holiday destination of thousands of British people over the years . |
| 5 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 6 | Within easy reach of the town centre and on a frequent bus route , Wexford House stands in a large garden which will afford a pleasant area for future residents . |
| 7 | Within each reach of the town centre and on a frequent bus route , Wexford House stands in a large garden which will afford a pleasant area for future residents . |
| 8 | It 's not a problem when it 's in the open air but it can seep into buildings and when it becomes trapped in an enclosed area it 's potentially lethal . |
| 9 | His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over . |
| 10 | The whole process can be summarized in a simple diagram which looks like this : |
| 11 | Yes , and I have even added in a few pictures which have never been seen before . |
| 12 | If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time . |
| 13 | each the same sort of components , the same components are each colour say in a red individual they 'd all be pinky red colours and in a blue individual they 'd all be a blue colour |
| 14 | Investigations can take several months , ending in a formal report which will be sent to you . |
| 15 | That is why if Jill knowingly leads Jim to expect that she will behave in a certain way she bears a responsibility to prevent harm to Jim as a result of this reliance , and so on . |
| 16 | This was the first occasion on which the ancestors of the modern Slovenes found themselves included in a political unit which extended into central Europe . |
| 17 | FOLK lore is included in a new book which traces the history of Northwich , written by Brian Curzon . |
| 18 | In this approach the chain is assumed to be contained in a hypothetical tube which is placed initially in a three dimensional network formed from the other entangled chains . |
| 19 | It remained frozen in a feudal system which had decayed but not died with the end of the rubber boom . |
| 20 | The first fire occurred in an electrical cabinet which was not connected to the plant 's basic circuit . |
| 21 | This is not to claim that the war was totally unintended , but that national leaders had become caught in an irrational process which led inevitably to war . |
| 22 | Koeman was involved everywhere and cracked in a 35-yard shot which cannoned back off the post after 48 minutes . |
| 23 | Mr Freeman said he believed in a Christian humanism which meant God was merely ‘ the sum of human aspirations ’ rather than ‘ a supernatural being intervening in man 's affairs ’ . |
| 24 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 25 | Twentieth-century choreographers rarely deal with fairyland ; they prefer to depict real characters living in a particular environment who have strong individual traits . |
| 26 | Also , even when modern composers do write melody , it is rarely presented in a straightforward way which can be regarded as a model . |
| 27 | McGowen also included a ciba-tran called ‘ Shadows ’ which was a computer-generated image presented in a light box which shows the difference between colour being lit from the back and the direct luminosity of colour when applied directly to glass . |
| 28 | Mothers , wives , sisters and daughters — in each of these roles Hindu women function in a paradoxical way which reflects this male attitude towards their sexuality . |
| 29 | To support Wilfrid was also to engage in a protracted dispute which must have been a long-term embarrassment both to the Northumbrian king and the archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 30 | Both kinds of representation betray fears and fantasies about sexual passivity and sexual promiscuity : women then , and gay men now , are imagined to engage in a passive promiscuity which is really an unquenchable appetite for destruction ; AIDS has ‘ reinforced the heterosexual association of anal sex with a self-annihilation originally and primarily identified with the fantasmatic mystery of an insatiable , unstoppable female sexuality ’ . |