Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] an [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 2 | And obviously an expert in business . |
| 3 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |
| 4 | There is no baby Jesus , no three wise men and not an angel in sight on the cards sent out by these famous names . |
| 5 | This exemption was not excluded by para 15(3) ( ba ) , Sch 6 since the ‘ property ’ was shares and not an interest in possession . |
| 6 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 7 | His poems in Horizon and elsewhere , collected in book form in 1944 and 1945 , led to his appointment by the BBC as a staff producer and then an instructor in broadcasting technique . |
| 8 | This story , of Mary , in love with a lowly clerk ( tall , dark , handsome and actually an aristocrat in disguise ) owed a great deal to the sagas of class confusion and frustrated passions to be found in contemporary fiction magazines and the ‘ penny dreadful novelette ’ , both in its packaging and plot . |
| 9 | We would n't expect the County Council to be proceeding to approval of the plan , but merely an approval in principle or an approval of the concept . |
| 10 | However , one study has not only shown persistence of enhanced platelet reactivity in response to collagen and sodium arachidonate despite a 1 6-week period of near normal glycaemic control but also an increase in platelet reactivity to ADP ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | This change process enabled the manufacturing entity to effect not only the required reduction in numbers of employees , but also an improvement in operation . |
| 12 | This is , of course , not only a plea for common sense , but also an argument in favour of estimation rather than hypothesis testing — a vaccine efficacy estimate of 77% for these data has more meaning than a of 53.1 . |
| 13 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 14 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |