Example sentences of "and [adv] in a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in some ways , a female Kenneth Williams , an eccentric who could emote facially and vocally in a way in which Ken had established himself the master . |
| 2 | It is more helpful to meet real people who have come to terms with their lives , than to wander around lost and alone in a maze of fantasies . |
| 3 | In the provision of public collective goods ‘ consumer preference ’ can only be expressed indirectly and imprecisely in a democracy through the relationship between bureau and legislative sponsor . |
| 4 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 5 | If he knew what I wanted he 'd be out of the car and away in a flash of shock . |
| 6 | The Member States shall support the Union 's external and security policy actively and unreservedly in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity . |
| 7 | On two occasions he used the word " Jew " as a pejorative adjective — once in a letter to John Quinn , dated 12 March 1923 , and once in a letter to Ezra Pound , dated 31 October 1917 . |
| 8 | I had told her that Ivy had had luncheon with Olivia Manning , and had written : ‘ She is always the same and always in a circle of the lettered . |
| 9 | ‘ The complexities of childcare often drive qualified women to take a low-skilled but undemanding and convenient local job resulting sometimes in personal frustration and always in a loss of skills to the economy . |
| 10 | For many minutes , Ali , Asaad and Isaac plod back and forth in a chain through the snow . |
| 11 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |
| 12 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 13 | He would find her under sedation — a bit dopey and drowsy , and still in a state of some disorientation and shock . |
| 14 | In spite of the ructions that ensued when the announcement was made — namely IBM 's and DEC 's decision to cut Technology off , it managed to double throughput and more in a matter of months and has contributed around 20% of the spoils in ICL UK 's coffers . |
| 15 | In 1920 Swire became the director in charge of the company 's overseas staff , and thereafter in a series of long , energetic and often dangerous tours — the civil war in China was at its height — he regularly explored every nook and cranny of the company 's Far Eastern empire . |
| 16 | In her doctoral dissertation and later in A Grammar of Metaphor , Brooke-Rose studies the mechanics of metaphoric interaction from a grammatical point of view . |
| 17 | These psychological principles are used in everyday living related , for example , to child development , all aspects of organised education , the impact of the mass media , and also in a variety of community services including health care services . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet , despite an increase of spending on health in the UK from 3¼ per cent of national income in 1948 to over 6 per cent ( of a much larger national income ) forty years later , it is alleged that the NHS is underfunded and periodically in a state of near collapse . |
| 21 | The information necessary to carry out the control function effectively is produced from a variety of sources and often in a variety of forms . |
| 22 | We hear endlessly of Rodrigo taking various fortified cities and castles — only to lose them later and often in a matter of months . |
| 23 | But is this triple message , taken home by the Paraclete in the apostolic mission , not precisely what the Johannine Christ proclaims throughout the Gospel , and particularly in a passage like 9:35- 41 ? |
| 24 | Erm , and I , I think it 's quite beyond belief that these sort of accidents as well as the major road accidents are n't taken into consideration for our S S A , and particularly in a county like Shropshire , where there 's very little but grain in a lot of places , and that erm , money has to be found But , I would , I would really like to hear what the Officer |
| 25 | Sometimes this happens spontaneously and regularly in a family without the need for extra organisation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The system of higher education in the UK is usually described in institutional rather than curricular terms , and even in a book on the curriculum something must be said about the pattern of institutions since this affects what is taught . |
| 28 | The second response , that the difference consists solely and simply in a mode of knowledge of the external world , without invoking any internal and introspectible ‘ feel ’ , requires one to explain perceptual experiences with different modes of access without reference to a subjective component . |
| 29 | Make it into a a thick layer , and then in a day of so , the juice from the would have soaked into this second class hay and er you used to mix it with a fork and load it into into bags . |
| 30 | You have a term and then in a middle of the term you have a half term do n't you ? |