Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] in a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there comes a time when it is necessary to completely dismantle your aquarium , the fish can be temporarily housed in a smaller aquarium , provided there is a good supply of oxygen . |
| 2 | If that were to be fully reflected in a lower real exchange rate ( the nominal rate adjusted to take account of changes in UK output prices relative to those elsewhere ) , competitiveness would improve significantly and could give a boost to growth . |
| 3 | The relatively short human lifespan is thus put in a clearer biological perspective . |
| 4 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 5 | If you are thinking about trying to breed them , this is best achieved in a smaller aquarium where the breeding fish are on their own . |
| 6 | Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion . |
| 7 | There was a tendency for the mucosal pepsin values to be higher at day 7 than at day 3 , which , although not statistically significant in this study , was also seen in a smaller , preliminary study in which a significant change was shown . |