Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , the role effectively changes from one of service management to one of a franchise operation , with Colleges having the right to market the education product or service in a defined areas , constrained mainly by the overall strategic plan set by the LEA . |
| 2 | If one takes wines such as these together with the inevitably ill-fated attempts to make a red wine from black grapes grown in a climate barely hospitable enough to ripen a grape , let alone colour it , a wealth of curiously coloured , clouded wines must have constituted the norm , despite a half-hidden glint of pink or red in a few instances . |
| 3 | Now , each householder or tenant in a Scottish Homes estate in West Lothian has to pay for this service as well their poll tax . |
| 4 | She will probably welcome your offer of help with such matters as the registration of the death , notifying distant friends , putting an announcement of death in local or national newspapers if she wants this , and dealing with kindly enquiries from neighbours in a tactful way , so that they understand that she may not be feeling like having too many callers at first but will greatly appreciate their help and sympathy in a few days ' ( or weeks , ) time ; and making arrangements for the funeral and any family gathering that is to take place afterwards . |
| 5 | Summarize the consumption figures for coal and petroleum in a few sentences . |
| 6 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 7 | The alarm was raised shortly afterwards by a milkman and officers in a passing police car who spotted the smoke and flames . |
| 8 | Low stone walls divided the garden up into different segments , and these were marbled with moss and lichen in a dozen shades of gold and green , and often hidden completely under tumbling masses of roses , clematis and ivy . |
| 9 | Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts , and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species . |
| 10 | During the following months we started to distribute basic medical material to dispensaries , health centres , and hospitals in a few districts . |
| 11 | Trains can link Newcastle and London in a few minutes over two and a half hours . |
| 12 | Data collected through interviews with management and unions in a dozen industries are analysed to find out what was distinctive about the inherited characteristics of these industries in London at the beginning of the period as compared to other parts of the country . |
| 13 | The National Curriculum , whilst being consistent with the other government sponsored programmes in its instrumental-vocationalist view , has made provision for the arts through music and art as second tier essential subjects with drama mentioned for possible inclusion with art , music and design in a joint arts option for older pupils . |
| 14 | This arises when participation in a CU results in a switch from a low cost , to a higher cost , source of supply . |