Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ The value of an air ambulance service remains uncertain , compared with the use of that money in a different way . |
| 2 | This particular passage is Bukharin at his sophistical worst , since he rails against the ‘ freedom to labour ’ in a manner that dodges the real freedom that workers can obtain by forming trade unions ; this was not a negation of the ‘ freedom to labour ’ , but rather a redefinition of that freedom in a positive manner . |
| 3 | If I had a little money in a rich man 's world . |
| 4 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 5 | So to lighten our load and ensure that your answer is passed on quickly would you please put each response in a separate envelope with the name of the reader it is addressed to on the front . |
| 6 | The S.S.O. was crossing Casualty yard when I was going on duty that afternoon in a flaming temper . |
| 7 | He points out that when John uses that term in a negative sense it is with ‘ specific reference not to the whole of culture , but to a particular use of that culture by the forces of evil . ’ |
| 8 | What might be called ‘ external ’ interpretation or construction was the subject of Section 2 : jurists resort to construction , when there is evidently an intention on the part of a testator to achieve some object by means of some legal institution , in order to embody that intention in a legal framework . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most technically outstanding examples of this are Milhaud 's string quartets Nos. 8 and 9 , which can be played separately or together as an octet , with each instrument in a different key . |
| 10 | Stir the batter , then make at least eight pancakes in a small , non-stick frying pan , cooking each side in a small amount of oil or fat until golden . |
| 11 | In 1922 she was promoted professor in Swahili and the Bantu languages , the first such chair in the British Isles ; she then established the School 's diploma in Swahili studies ( 1924 ) , the first qualification of this kind in a British university . |
| 12 | The image of modernism as artefact is in this sense a totalizing image using the project of art as its means of accomplishing such totality ( compare Gell 1986 for the ability of the commodity to perform this function in a non-industrial context ) . |
| 13 | The primary responsibility of the purchasing department is to secure sufficient and suitable raw materials , components , other goods , and services to ensure that the manufacturing process is fully supplied with all its materials , and to achieve this responsibility in a cost-effective manner . |
| 14 | The conversion to a house of the former village school at Airton , in the Yorkshire Dales , which is one of the following case studies , shows how a similarly ‘ standard ’ type of local authority school — in this case in a rural location — can be transformed into a convenient and characterful dwelling without adversely affecting its external appearance . |
| 15 | 8 October : The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh left Heathrow Airport , London this afternoon in a British Airways Tristar for Singapore and Malaysia . |
| 16 | It had interrupted another part in a provincial theatre . |
| 17 | Today Andrew Smith , MP for Oxford east , Bruce Kent , prospective parliamentary candidate for Oxford west and Abingdon and Oxford authoress Margaret Drabble among many other well-known figures , showed their support for this measure in a full page newspaper advertisement . |
| 18 | We might hold that the meaning of a given sentence is so rich and particular that it could never be captured by another sentence in a different language . |
| 19 | He rushed away followed by his laughing , equipment-rattling band in a mad stampede , but someone else was running towards the Windmill from another direction in a vain attempt to cut them off . |
| 20 | In addition to the learners , there is at least one resource person who knows both the target language and the native language , and who has some experience in a non-directive style of counselling as opposed to the more traditional role played by the teacher using the audio-lingual method . |
| 21 | You kept this powder in a little linen bag and you sprinkled a bit now and then in their bait . ’ |
| 22 | I did n't realise she was getting married in the church opposite the shop until I saw the life-size versions of the figures appear one morning — including this labrador in a pink dress ! ’ |
| 23 | Always be particularly careful to avoid swinging across another cable in a strong cross wind . |
| 24 | This study in a large population of patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome aimed to search for a differential pattern of gastric endocrine cells between patients with sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome and those with the syndrome and MEN 1 , and to establish whether there is a real predominance of ECL cell tumours in the second group . |
| 25 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll bring you some tea in a few minutes , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The offeror must then publicise this intention in a mass circulation newspaper or by some other means approved by the supervisory authority . |
| 28 | If you do n't , try to do some research in a local shop or supermarket . |
| 29 | The technical and objective manner lasted for about nine pages , then the eyes watered up again , the voice started strangulating , dirty great blobs welled up over my vision and I got seriously worried about my ability to perform this piece in a grown-up manner . |
| 30 | Some act in a conscious state , more like shorthand-typists being guided by their spiritual bosses . |