Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb base] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 2 | Even the tail is carefully protected , fitting snugly into a deep groove on the animal 's rump , where two sheets of armour meet in a vertical cleft . |
| 3 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 4 | The Act also contains guidance for the courts as to the factors which they should take into account in deciding whether any of the statutory exceptions to the presumption in favour of bail apply in a particular case . |
| 5 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 6 | We women of Britain believe in a Christian way of life . |
| 7 | Then , when higher-order beliefs and intentions of interactants engage in a suitable way — by instantiating a sub-Gricean mechanism , say — certain actions ( token events ) can have occasion meaning . |