Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance of this in terms of teacher learning is the way in which teacher placement supports a broad based professional development model which integrates with specific and general school issues and is attractive because it is beyond the conventional forms of in-service providing a radical , memorable experience in a teacher 's career . |
| 2 | The argument was settled when a tall figure in a parachutist 's red beret and combat uniform appeared over the top of a dune and walked towards them . |
| 3 | A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital . |
| 4 | For a show due to open for its first public preview in a week 's time The Hooded Owl was in far from promising shape . |
| 5 | There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks … |
| 6 | For example , if the current one-year rate is rs 1 = 6.5 per cent and the market is expecting the one-year rate in a year 's time to be = 7.5 per cent , then the market is expecting a 100 investment in two one-year bonds to yield 100 ( 1.065 ) ( 1.075 ) = 114.49 after two years . |
| 7 | ‘ Bill ’ , weighed an astonishing 1,157.5 kg just before he was put down after suffering a broken leg in an accident en route to the Chicago World Fair for exhibition in 1933 . ’ |
| 8 | They began filling in forms for security passes at the little reception desk while a faded old man in a messenger 's uniform rang number after number to find out where the meeting was being held . |
| 9 | It is not a sign of high status in a man 's world to be in charge of women only , but I have to confess that I did n't find it unpleasant . |
| 10 | Most pickers earn the equivalent to the government minimum daily wage in a day 's work , but they do not get any of the benefits of social security payments , minimal though they are , that employed workers receive nor the security of a regular wage . |
| 11 | Negative methods of responding in marking are likely to produce sterile , cumulative consequences in a child 's writing : pupils quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher and merely aim to fulfil those expectations . |
| 12 | One of the earliest to be shown was the 1950 film Caged , screened on ITV in 1968 : this featured Hope Emerson as a mannish , sadistic matron in a women 's prison . |
| 13 | The aim of public policy — and of chairmen who do not merely want protection — should be to lean in the direction of involved shareholders , those who have a direct interest in a company 's fate . |
| 14 | Catherine may attend its British premiere in a fortnight 's time . |
| 15 | The clinical interview provided information about the severity and diagnosis of disorders , but also enabled researchers to measure onset and course using a concept of change-points : a point in time when an increase or decrease in the number of symptoms led to a noticeable change in a woman 's psychiatric state . |
| 16 | The Finance Houses Association , representing the biggest finance houses , told us that many of their members would say that a personal interview in an applicant 's own home , allowing the personal judgment of an experienced assessor , and an element of ‘ gut-feeling ’ would be the ideal . |
| 17 | They would also omit any individual idiosyncrasies in an individual 's language ( known in linguistics as idiolect ) , and any purely physiological interference , like traffic noise outside or the effect of trying to speak while under physical strain . |
| 18 | All in all , nesting time is a particularly demanding and dangerous period in a bird 's life . |
| 19 | ‘ The theory of probability is possibly the chief weapon in an actuary 's armoury ’ |
| 20 | The moment of penetration no longer has the aura of an earth-shaking moral event in a person 's life . |
| 21 | Joint authorship in an author 's first paper may be justifiable on grounds of inexperience , but the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) policy of indexing under the first author only will fail to identify the output of Ph D research if the researcher is not named first . |
| 22 | Like a dissatisfied rich customer ( he 's a male assistant in a draper 's ) . |
| 23 | Was it not a drunken pedlar in a parson 's habit ? |
| 24 | In Figure 9.6 the grid lines form an imaginary network of longitude and latitude at a fixed altitude in a planet 's atmosphere , the grid lines rotating with the planet . |
| 25 | That crucial time in a child 's life when he has the ability to understand that his parents and teachers are trying to prepare him for his adult life , will not necessarily be related to his age . |
| 26 | Multiple or recurrent bacterial infections ( any combination of > 2 within a two year period ) of the following types in a child < 13 years of age : septicaemia , pneumonia , meningitis , bone or joint infection , or abscess of an internal organ or body cavity ( excluding otitis media or superficial skin or mucosal abscesses ) , caused by Haemophilus , Streptococcus ( including pneumococcus ) , or other pyogenic bacteria . |
| 27 | And since anatomy is destiny , is Freud correct in his deductive assertion that the discovery that she is ‘ castrated ’ is a turning point in a girl 's growth ? |
| 28 | You can learn more about make-up from a quick snoop in a friend 's bathroom than you can from any other source . |
| 29 | History has shown that the insensitivity of civil or military rulers to such pressures often results in a civil war , coups or revolutions which can bring about a sudden change in a country 's political ideology and attitudes to private enterprise . |
| 30 | After a brief spell in a florist 's shop , she entered Morrison & Gibb in November 1909 , aged 15 , and worked there more or less all her life . |