Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally I always do this and yet I must reassure you that I 'm not a Saga representative in anyway , I 'm just keen on , on Saga and their facilities . |
| 2 | In this way , casting ceases to be just an intermediary stage in the act of creation but is itself the finished product of that act . |
| 3 | His teeth are even a snow white in colour . |
| 4 | Premiums paid for life insurance and funds under management have risen more than five-fold to £14.5 billion and £224 billion respectively , despite there being only a 2m rise in the number of life insurance policies to 106m . |
| 5 | RECRUITING IN A RECESSION Taking on new staff is rarely a company priority in a recession , but The Freshman Consultancy has established itself in the recruitment business in spite of the current climate |
| 6 | The document is basically a briefing document in order that every piece of information erm that is available to the police is then able to be passed on to the officers who are actually going to do the job . |
| 7 | In pure marketing terms , the concept is basically a bedroom product in association with a ‘ host brand ’ restaurant , rather than being part of a hotel . |
| 8 | According to Robyn ( or , more precisely , according to the writers who have influenced her thinking on these matters ) , there is no such thing as the ‘ self ’ on which capitalism and the classic novel are founded — that is to say , a finite , unique soul or essence that constitutes a person 's identity ; there is only a subject position in an infinite web of discourses — the discourses of power , sex , family , science , religion , poetry , etc . |
| 9 | Elsewhere — as in the Jura — corals are more important than rudists and usually it is only a reef limestone in the broadest Gallic sense of that term ; that is to say , a massive limestone without bedding planes and commonly recrystallised . |
| 10 | Michelle is obviously a sunlust person in that respect and depending on whether she goes to a main package resort in Spain or perhaps a beach in India , she can either be a psychocentric sunlust person or an alocentric sunlust person . |
| 11 | There is generally a size bias in all predator assemblages and a predictable size equivalence between predator and prey . |
| 12 | There is thus a 5% difference in the extent of collaboration between an author 's first and subsequent publications . |
| 13 | There is thus a 5% difference in the extent of collaboration between an author 's first and subsequent publications . |
| 14 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 15 | Do n't forget , there is not a rabbit warren in the land where they show sex education films and yet this has never been a problem for the rabbits of the world . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that much the most important and immediate task now faced by the international order is to ensure that there is not a quantum leap in the number of countries with access to smaller , tactical and battlefield nuclear weapons and nuclear warheads ? |
| 17 | AT THE La Manga club in Spain this week there is not a hacking holidaymaker in sight . |
| 18 | AT THE La Manga club in Spain this week there is not a hacking holidaymaker in sight . |
| 19 | This too is a serious error , because dh is not a letter sequence in English . |
| 20 | The Daily Post 's table of GCSE examination results is not a league table in the accepted sense . |
| 21 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
| 22 | For instance , if the searcher seeks documents on ‘ Greenhouses ’ and this is not an index term in the appropriate controlled indexing language , then documents on this topic will be difficult to retrieve directly . |
| 23 | ‘ This is just a confidence tour in many ways . |
| 24 | The video is already a record breaker in that it was produced in only three weeks as opposed to the normal six to eight weeks . |
| 25 | And there are some properties producing rent , though not many , because the group 's business is in speculative purchases of property to sell at a profit — it 's not a property company in the sense of owning blocks of officer or flats to rent . |
| 26 | Given the complexity of this task there is always a time lag in the publication of mortality by cause of death data . |
| 27 | More than two thirds of that colossal amount was devoted to lager , which is still a minority brand in Britain . |
| 28 | The apparent reliance of industry and commerce on the flip-chart is still a standing joke in education , but perhaps there is a lesson to be learnt here and my office wall may soon sprout one ! |
| 29 | The regulatory body is also a licensing authority in respect of a wide range of activities . |
| 30 | There is also a north-south division in East Germany 's revolution . |