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 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | It will take time and we need to introduce some practical initiatives to help what is fundamentally a change in attitude , to take place . |
| 7 | Yeah it looks like a satellite dish , it 's only a yard in diameter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The history of ‘ communications ’ as a field of study is perhaps a case in point . |
| 10 | International Relations at the start of the 1990s is thus a subject in dispute . |
| 11 | This book is not a text in method and neither will its empirical core be used as a peg for methodological debates . |
| 12 | The librarian is not a specialist in information in general , but in information about records . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had the opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded and to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board have ruled in the application . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Chester is not a town in isolation but the focal point for a large area , and there is a large and increasing potential market . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Otherwise the , the little bulb is just a screw in affair . |
| 20 | So he is already a celebrity in island cricket . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's just a back-up in case you get stuck . |
| 22 | There 's not a tune in sight . |
| 23 | It 's not a difference in age ; it 's a difference in sex . |
| 24 | The meaning persists in the contemporary world , but the castle , these days , is usually a semi in suburbia with mum , dad and two children . |
| 25 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Be aware ’ does of course recommend a sensibility open rather than closed to new impressions , but even the most greedy for new experience can not embrace joy and suffering with equal fervour , there is always a bias in favour of the enjoyable . |
| 27 | Death is always a failure in hospital , and the business and routine of life in the medical and surgical wards do not lend themselves to a personal death ( Sudnow 1967 ) . |
| 28 | Finally , in tune with the government 's general philosophy , ‘ there is always a presumption in favour of allowing applications for development , having regard to all material considerations , unless that development would cause demonstrable harm to interests of acknowledged importance ’ . |
| 29 | There is always a moment in time when we can make a decision whether or not to vent our anger . |
| 30 | That grand-sounding ‘ new world order ’ is still a phrase in search of a meaning . |