Example sentences of "[be] [adv] an [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is not an exercise in self-indulgence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Th they 're our largest exporter er there 's inter-company sales which would gen can generate quite useful profits since they get sold on both of er Penguin companies er and Longman of course has a high content of erm er of er non-U K sales and Addison Wesley also er I mean Camco was the most international , but it 's erm not er it 's not an exporter in sterling denominated terms . |
| 10 | These problems arise from the intrinsic contradiction in objectification by which the very form necessary for the subject 's development is always an exercise in self-alienation and is therefore a potential source of estrangement . |
| 11 | Eugene Roscoe is also an expert in junk mail . |
| 12 | I heartily agree with him , and I suspect that that is really an argument in favour of federalism in due course — I would not necessarily be too frightened of taking that course . |
| 13 | This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management . |
| 14 | This is quite an achievement in view of the size and the regional diversity of a country such as the United States . |
| 15 | The direct mechanism is where an increase in money supply leads people directly to spend the resulting excess of money supply over money demand . |
| 16 | So that 's been very important , economies of scale are very important in the erm , the growth of manufacturing trade , which is essentially an increase in intra , in intra industry trade , as , as opposed to inter industry trade which is erm the simultaneous import and export of er products from different industries like produce capital goods , so cars and in return you will import erm food products but the majority of the increase in world trade has come from this intra industry variety . |
| 17 | During gastrulation , differences in cell adhesion guide the cells ; during lens formation the lens cells lose adhesion with adjacent cells at the time of detachment ; and somite formation is essentially an increase in adhesiveness locally . |
| 18 | He was just beginning to worry about his fuel situation when he was called into the searchlight area , only to be fired on by A.A. He advised Control that he was coming in to land and requested that the flare path be lit , but was advised that there was still an alert in force and therefore no flare path could be employed . |
| 19 | This was more an increase in efficiency than in output . |
| 20 | There was clearly an increase in population from probably the ninth and tenth centuries right through to the troubled fourteenth century , but there are several ways in which extra people can be fed and accommodated on the land . |
| 21 | Christmas was simply an exercise in extravagance . |
| 22 | But she knew it was n't an increase in affection — it was simply that he represented safety . |
| 23 | When these characters were combined with letters in a third experiment there was again an increase in reaction time with set size for the RVF but only for letters , not for the typological characters . |