Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the alternative of storage internally in the mind or externally in a file ( paper-based or computer-based ) external records are much superior for literal reproductions at least in western societies ( there is anecdotal evidence concerning illiterate traders in other cultures who seem to have remarkable memories for detailed facts and numbers connected with their personal business ) . |
| 2 | If he knew what I wanted he 'd be out of the car and away in a flash of shock . |
| 3 | Of course there is also pantomime and now in a museum ! |
| 4 | You have a term and then in a middle of the term you have a half term do n't you ? |
| 5 | Without telling anyone , I climbed to the top of the brick wall , looked over , it had about a nine foot drop on the other side and there in a Tate Sugar Box with a slatted front was a caged cockbird . |
| 6 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 7 | You can adapt the menus for eating away from home , i.e. at work or even in a restaurant . |
| 8 | Sometimes a doe will extend a dead end within a burrow and construct her breeding chamber ; more usually she makes a small hole either out in open terrain or sometimes in a hedgerow . |
| 9 | From that site too come the Callanish eagles whose strength is not in flight , or size , or speed or skill but rather in a spirit whose power has been forget through time . ’ |
| 10 | Epithets such as " naughty " or " dirty " , or their implication , may result not only in a general feeling of unworthiness in the child but also in a sense that they apply to anal-genital matters as a whole . |
| 11 | the amount of work actually done was greatest in an autocratic group and least in a laissez-faire group . |
| 12 | There is an oscillation between light and darkness but no particular moment of time when day becomes night or night day ; as I walk across the landscape I may sometimes be on a hill top and sometimes in a valley bottom but at no point does the surface of the earth come to an end . |
| 13 | The Canadians arrived little more than 36 hours before their first tie and even in a bounce game against recruits at the army camp where they trained yesterday , they found it very taxing . |
| 14 | So presenting the centre line and okay we 're going to come on to the eye contact as well in a moment , presenting the centre line with eye contact means that it feels much more positive for the audience in terms of the delivery . |
| 15 | But a week or so in a holiday cottage is n't the same as becoming a permanent resident . |
| 16 | The gentle green-suited elephant is everywhere — on dressing gowns , duvet covers , nappies , plates , carpets , soft drinks , television and now in a feature film , ‘ Le Triomphe de Babar ’ , which had its world première in Paris last week . |
| 17 | In her doctoral dissertation and later in A Grammar of Metaphor , Brooke-Rose studies the mechanics of metaphoric interaction from a grammatical point of view . |
| 18 | In spite of the ructions that ensued when the announcement was made — namely IBM 's and DEC 's decision to cut Technology off , it managed to double throughput and more in a matter of months and has contributed around 20% of the spoils in ICL UK 's coffers . |
| 19 | Seasonal peaks are not specific to the service sector ; they are to be found in certain parts of manufacturing — particularly In food processing but also in a number of consumer goods industries -and in agriculture . |
| 20 | If you are the guest , then you can take refuge in the thought that once in a while you need a break , and you can always make it up tomorrow by being particularly good . |
| 21 | ‘ The complexities of childcare often drive qualified women to take a low-skilled but undemanding and convenient local job resulting sometimes in personal frustration and always in a loss of skills to the economy . |
| 22 | And he said what they 're tr er what they want to do is erm pick out a word pick out a word and then in a conversation they would fi find out how many meanings to that one word . |
| 23 | This is unfair , for it is a historic city and once in a while something does happen . |
| 24 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 25 | When news of this reached El Cid , he at once set out for his city but already in a matter of ten days , much of what he had achieved was undone . |
| 26 | This is based on a form of pyramid training in which co-ordinators from each school are trained to train colleagues in their own school or sometimes in a consortium of local schools . |
| 27 | The conjunction of the two gives us such singers of whom there occur perhaps half-a-dozen in a generation or even in a century . |
| 28 | His claim about South African involvement was subsequently ridiculed in the press and elsewhere in a way reminiscent of the scorn poured for so many years on the suggestion that British intelligence might have had a link with the Zinoviev letter . |
| 29 | And we get songs that people send into the office and once in a while we 'll come up with something that somebody just sends us . |
| 30 | She wanted both of these to some extent but only in a police force whose integrity she could believe in . |