Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 Although not a true source in that it is not found in published material , the other main source of information about the applications of expert determination is provided by the instances encountered in the course of practice .
2 ALYSON WILLIAMS ‘ Alyson Williams ’ second from the fierce US soulwoman , with which she plans to prove that she is ‘ more than just a loud broad in a loud hat ! ’
3 A good sommelier or restaurant manager can persuade the customer to choose a super bottle of wine which offers marvellous value and drinks perfectly , rather than just a grand name in a superlative vintage which , inevitably , will have a premium attached to it .
4 Although often a marginal need in food environments , where hygiene regulations require the use of head gear , it is often cheaper to use safety helmets which can be wiped clean rather than incur laundry costs from the use of linen caps .
5 Although nominally a Great Power in 1945 , with a seat on the United Nations Security Council and the second largest Empire in the world , France emerged from the Second World War as a much-weakened nation .
6 Although quite a large reel in appearance , it only weighs 10.9oz which compares favourably with small sized reels .
7 Composed again , if still a little red in the face , I sat back and muttered apologies .
8 Firstly , it was not simply a question of poor front-end processing because even a substantial improvement in the front-end performance would have had little effect on reducing the problem .
9 While still a young man in south Durham , he made the acquaintance of the mathematician William Emerson , the instrument-maker John Bird , and the natural philosopher Thomas Wright [ qq.v . ] .
10 While never a crucial factor in the political balance during the exceptionally unstable period after the coup , their participation was an indication of just how polarized Salvadorean society had become and was to provide the right-wing with good moral propaganda material .
11 It was likely that both the leading magnates and the commons in parliament would see a war on behalf of the disinherited as merely a factional struggle in which neither the honour nor the safety of the community was at stake , and which therefore did not merit support .
12 In the procedure of associated spaces , however , link B is seen computationally as only a special entity in the reference space , containing all the entities describing link A. Rotation of A by 450 is achieved by rotating the entire sub-model space .
13 Louise Müller , or whatever her name was , was a treacherous schemer and murderess , as much a public danger in her way as Fedorov .
14 Though not a commanding presence in the House , Norton was a devoted committee man .
15 There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest .
16 It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize .
17 Perhaps the most significant paper , also geomorphological , was that in which Brown ( 1970 ) characterized man as both a geomorphological process in relation to his direct , purposeful modifications of landforms , and also as indirectly effective through the human influence upon geomorphological processes .
18 In the community care reforms the purchaser/provider split is understood as both a macro-budgetary strategy in which both health and social service are divided into purchasing and providing organizations , so that the latter can be more open to competition in the health and welfare ‘ market ’ , and a micro-budgetary mechanism for decentralizing resources into the hands of front-line workers and managers in order to more effectively target these resources on those identified as most in need by the care management assessment .
19 Once we have ruled out the secular notion that authority implies superiority , we can then get it back into perspective as simply a necessary tool in executing responsibility .
20 Unlike children , very old people do not have common ‘ norms of development ’ which can be used as quite a precise yardstick in the appraisals we all make of each other .
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