Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Site of Special Scientific Interest covers 74 acres of beautiful ancient woodland of a type uncommon in the East Midlands . |
| 2 | The government has responded by increasing the military presence in the area , while the " Mindanao Defenders " , an irregular civilian paramilitary force of a type common in the Philippines , is beginning to intimidate the protestors . |
| 3 | But Sony is expected to argue that this contract has moral and legal force , was freely negotiated and is of a type common in the industry . |
| 4 | Thomson , Swiney pointed out that ‘ femaleness ’ was due to the presence of a chromosome absent in the male . |
| 5 | Section 5(1) of UCTA 1977 states : 5- ( 1 ) In the case of goods of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption , where loss or damage ( a ) arises from the goods proving defective while in consumer use ; and ( b ) results from the negligence of a person concerned in the manufacture or distribution of the goods , liability for the loss or damage can not be excluded or restricted by reference to any contract term or notice contained in or operating by reference to a guarantee of the goods . |
| 6 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |
| 7 | Given the media 's obsession with Diana , it was hardly likely that they would allow the couple the luxury of a week alone in the snow . |
| 8 | Family relationship , business connections , and commercial ties , are examples of the interests which can disqualify the decision-maker , as is membership of an organisation interested in the dispute . |
| 9 | Down on the ground the first thing to be heard is a distant squeal , and a sharp-sighted man might just discern a black dot like a bird high in the sky . |
| 10 | Smith , born Down Under but with Irish grandparents , leads Oxford against a World XV in a match to raise funds for GOAL , an Irish-based international charity which provides financial assistance to the Third World . |
| 11 | So Batty really has gone up in the world — from 4–3 against the ( old , great ) Liverpool at Elland Road two years ago to a 4–3 thriller against a club ninth in the fourth division . |
| 12 | Shelley waited for a while alone in the clinic . |
| 13 | At first it looked like a perfectly routine maintenance operation but as a precaution those in the tunnel were evacuated and the heavy steel doors at the eastern end barred and locked . |
| 14 | Marie Stopes , who later became a famous pioneer of birth control started life as a palaeobotanist interested in the cycads . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't claim to be a sailing fanatic , but this is a lot more civilised than battling through a Force Six in the Solent , togged up like an alien from outer space in thermals and foul-weather gear ! ’ |
| 16 | SAM TORRANCE led the British charge with a seven-under-par 65 in the first round of the German Masters in Stuttgart yesterday . |
| 17 | The plans come as ministers are understood to be finalising plans for legislation to introduce voluntary membership of student unions , with a bill likely in the next parliamentary session . |
| 18 | In his statement smuggled to the Independent in London , Brucan said : ‘ I must take issue with a misconception prevailing in the West that this regime owes its survival to the repressive organs of the State . |
| 19 | Nicholas Leventhorpe came from a family active in the duchy since the beginning of the century . |
| 20 | Nicholas Leventhorpe came from a family active in the duchy since the beginning of the century . |
| 21 | How he had been with the mule packers on that campaign of the 3rd Cavalry 's , chasing down into Mexico after the bands of Chato and Chihuahua and got his new name in a meadow high in the Sierra Madre , two days west of the village of Tesorababi . |
| 22 | This in turn implies that the two generalizations already hinted at-that it was not normal practice either for the kasabat kadi to return to the medrese stream or for him to make the jump to the mevleviyet kadiliks were by then established : both are , of course , in a sense implicit in the Kanunname in so far as neither eventuality is mentioned , though , equally , neither is specifically excluded . |
| 23 | His hair was slicked back in a manner popular in the ‘ fifties , and his hardbitten face was hardly softened by a neat black moustache of the sort that Herr Hitler had driven out of fashion . |
| 24 | From an initial 700 in the first season , bookings rose rapidly to 26,000 by 1931 . |
| 25 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 26 | In some places , oil is packed up to a foot deep in the sand , according to the co-ordinator of Greenpeace 's expedition to the area . |
| 27 | By section 3 of the Patents Act 1977 an invention involves an inventive step if it is not obvious to a person skilled in the art . |
| 28 | A great formula has been known to appear to a scientist ready-made in a dream as though he were a Siberian shaman , but unlike the shaman he accepts it not on the authority of the dream but because afterwards it satisfies his most stringent tests . |
| 29 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 30 | In the far South-west , Cornish mining took on female labour to a degree unusual in the southern part of the country . |