Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether there is upregulation of the genes that produce these antigens or merely a change in expression on the cell surface has not been investigated : in situ hybridisation should provide an answer to this question . |
| 2 | ‘ A banker without money is like a doctor without pills ’ , commented American banker George Wood some 25 years ago , but a recent question for some banks recently was whether or not a judge in Chancery would dispense a ruling in their favour . |
| 3 | And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ? |
| 4 | Bank lending may also increase ( item 3 ) even if there is no increase in liquidity or even a reduction in liquidity ( item I is zero or negative ) , if banks respond to increases in the demand for loans by accepting a lower liquidity ratio . |
| 5 | Change of control clauses ( commonly found in software licences ) entitle one party to a contract to terminate the contract if there is a change in ownership of the other contracting party or sometimes a change in ownership of the holding company of that contracting party . |
| 6 | It is false that only a person in authority is an authority . |
| 7 | more than just a week in politics |
| 8 | Although not used more often than once a year in autumn , this tool saves all the hard work involved in scarifying ( breaking up and loosening the surface of ) a lawn by hand with a lawn rake . |
| 9 | The changing patterns of incidence of gastric carcinoma may , in part , be related to changes in smoking habits and perhaps a change in incidence of H pylori infection . |
| 10 | Wooden dolls are slid up and down a pole in time with the music , and castanets and bells , on the dolls ' backs , make a percussion sound . |
| 11 | ‘ And not a porter in sight . |
| 12 | Hatchards in Piccadilly was crammed to bursting with authors last Wednesday for its Authors of the Year reception , the annual event the bookshop stages to enable authors to get together with each other , and not a publisher in sight . |
| 13 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 14 | Green fields , a coppice of trees , and not a roof in sight . |
| 15 | You would n't see anybody walking round these big buildings and not a soul in sight . |
| 16 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 17 | He was a local lad and already a star in clubland , and I was a second-year apprentice comic visiting the north-east for the first time and decidedly wary of its reputation . |
| 18 | Not for the faint-hearted , the fair could reduce even the most hardened Frankfurt Book Fair stalwart to a whimpering wreck with its miles of cut-glass , Capo di Monte and leathergoods and scarcely a book in sight . |
| 19 | Alternatively , such an entry might mean a temporary absence , on Church business if not a foray in quest of preferment . |
| 20 | Benefits of this system include an improvement in urban fuel economy of between 8 and 14 per cent , remarkably stable idling with a reduction from 900 rpm to 825 rpm and a consequent gain in comfort and also a reduction in pollution brought about by the lower fuel consumption . |
| 21 | If the firm can expand its production it will lead to a reduction in average cost and hence a reduction in price , not only in the overseas market but also in the home market , which may lead to further domestic market expansion . |
| 22 | The increase in the cost of repaying mortgages ( the greatest component of the average family 's budget ) caused a reduction in the amount of money available for general consumption and hence a reduction in living standards . |
| 23 | The next day ( after a party at Neiman-Marcus for the competitors to meet agents , and a reception at the Kimbell Art Museum ) , there was another stunning performance , and then a party in honour of Rildia Bee , at which people lined up to talk to her as though she were Santa Claus . |
| 24 | ‘ But not a chance in hell , old boy , of overturning it , ’ the refrain went . |
| 25 | There are various types of head plumage , from thatch via greaseball to natural skin tone , but not a hat in sight . |
| 26 | There were a dozen or so cars parked near the entrance , including the Marshal 's small van , but not a soul in sight . |
| 27 | This demonstrates not only a continuing uncertainty about the precise objectives but also a change in emphasis away from the provision of courses towards other forms of dissemination , of which more will be said below . |
| 28 | Our congregations demand from every new member not only a conversion but also a change in culture . |
| 29 | If you are confident that you can show that your contract has been broken , you might wish to pursue not only an unfair dismissal complaint , but also a claim in respect of breach of your contract . |
| 30 | The reconversion of one portion of the value of the product into capital and the passing of another portion into the individual consumption of the capitalist as well as the working class form a movement within the value of the product itself in which the result of the aggregate capital finds expression ; and this movement is not only a replacement of value , but also a replacement in material and is therefore as much bound up with the relative proportions of the value-components of the total social product as with their use-value , their material shape . |