Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am just a man in love . ’ |
| 2 | If you 're really in favour of something , you vote for it twice but if you 're just a bit in favour of it you vote once . |
| 3 | The lists of attainments in Profiles of Development are not only a means to record learning , they are also an intervention in teaching — an attempt by the authors to define in more detail the National Curriculum as it applies to ‘ individuals for whom there is concern over progress ’ . |
| 4 | The public softening of Turkey 's attitude towards the Kurds may , in the end , be less a change in policy than recognition of the difficulties in controlling what happens across the border in northern Iraq . |
| 5 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 6 | It may be a preliminary to higher levels of spending or may be simply a shift in portfolio preferences towards more liquid forms of wealth . |
| 7 | The SWA therefore urges that the practice of index linking excise duty on spirits should be discontinued , and that there should be neither an increase in excise duties , nor revalorisation , until present differentials have been substantially eroded . |
| 8 | According to Winston Churchill junior , until his mother married Randolph Churchill at the outbreak of the Second World War , ‘ she had never been even a penny in debt , but since then worries about bills and people threatening to sue had been endless . ’ |
| 9 | Mr. Farr 's garden was on the right hand side at the end of the footpath and must have been almost an acre in extent . |
| 10 | It will take time and we need to introduce some practical initiatives to help what is fundamentally a change in attitude , to take place . |
| 11 | Yeah it looks like a satellite dish , it 's only a yard in diameter . |
| 12 | A licence coupled with an interest , e.g. a profit , is irrevocable , as although the licence itself is only a right in personam , it confers a right in rem to do something once an entry has been made . |
| 13 | The history of ‘ communications ’ as a field of study is perhaps a case in point . |
| 14 | International Relations at the start of the 1990s is thus a subject in dispute . |
| 15 | This book is not a text in method and neither will its empirical core be used as a peg for methodological debates . |
| 16 | The librarian is not a specialist in information in general , but in information about records . |
| 17 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
| 18 | Although this is not a matter in respect of which we are asked to grant any relief , I believe that Lautro should reconsider its practice in this respect , and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had the opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded and to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board have ruled in the application . |
| 19 | Two 's company , three 's a crowd , but when you 're talking about this generalized and more desexualized supplemented narcissistic libido to do with ego , then of course three is not a crowd in fact three erm is , is , er is the is er just as easy to accommodate as three thousand or three million , because it 's , it can be channelled into the group . |
| 20 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |
| 21 | Chester is not a town in isolation but the focal point for a large area , and there is a large and increasing potential market . |
| 22 | This is not an exercise in self-indulgence . |
| 23 | Even if a document such as a catalogue or price list is not an offer in law , there is no reason why it can not set out the terms of the offer , for instance by indicating that the party who issues it will only contract on those terms . |
| 24 | The fact that some sufferers die of their addictive disease regardless of their awareness of the Anonymous Fellowships is not an argument in favour of the use of other methods of treatment which were manifestly of no help to those who did recover and which can be observed to be of no help to those who still suffer . |
| 25 | These binocular cells can be made to fire by impulses arriving by way of fibres from either eye but there is normally a bias in favour of one eye or the other , the so-called ocular dominance of the cell . |
| 26 | Otherwise the , the little bulb is just a screw in affair . |
| 27 | So he is already a celebrity in island cricket . |
| 28 | Despite all the barriers and disadvantages encountered in the movement to a market economy , there is already an infrastructure in place for the future development of a music industry . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's just a back-up in case you get stuck . |
| 30 | There 's not a tune in sight . |