Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Greater and lesser frequency existed in about equal proportions , but nearly twice as many of this married population had intercourse only once a week , or less often , than had intercourse three times or more in a week .
2 The latter validate courses in polytechnics and also in a number of the colleges of higher education ; they include courses leading to awards such as the Diploma of the Institute of Administrative Management ; the Diploma of the British Association of Occupational Therapists ; the Licentiateship of the Hotel , Catering and Institutional Management Association ; the Certificate of Qualification in Social Work ; and the Bilingual Secretarial Diploma .
3 Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year .
4 The information necessary to carry out the control function effectively is produced from a variety of sources and often in a variety of forms .
5 Boxes , portrait miniatures and then in a section of its own in the centre of the display , the works of Carl Fabergé in the high days of Tsarist glory .
6 these are recommendations from a joint working party D of E of the erm local authority association and they are to almost unbelievable for us to consider and I can only assume that the that we must remember that this is really a response to what I call Heseltine 's last squeeze which was the idea of executive mayors and so in a sense lip service which has to be paid somewhere along those lines but it does recommend that we think seriously about cabinet govern government about single party committees and I ca n't imagine how anybody in their right minds would argue now that the cabinet government when they see what cabinet government leads to in Westminster and what de facto cabinet government leads to in majority ruled councils up and down the country erm , there is of course a I think a misleading er er brownie point the idea of relaxing restrictions on members allowances but members must realise why that is in there .
7 First in the attention it will pay to historical processes and secondly in a focus on the relationship between work and the household .
8 It projects a laser dot onto the front of approaching vehicles and even in a stream of traffic it can isolate offending vehicles , with a read-out of speed and range .
9 I feel that this is reflected not just in the increased knowledge of the students but also in a change of attitude and a few greater degrees of empathy . ’
10 For reasons such as these there had been a steadily rising tide of national self-consciousness since the 1960s , expressed particularly in a movement to protect ancient monuments and churches and also in a group of writers and filmmakers who had tried to rediscover the honesty , simplicity and even patterns of speech of traditional village life .
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