Example sentences of "of [noun sg] in a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 2 | In measuring temperature , for instance , one uses a thermometer , in which temperature is reflected in the length of a column of mercury in a glass tube ; the length of the mercury column , in turn , is estimated by lining up the mercury meniscus with one of a set of lines engraved on the glass . |
| 3 | That 's going to do a lot of damage in a soup bowl the size of Wembley stadium , I do n't think . |
| 4 | Then , as the planes roar down the flightpath to Heathrow , the one designed to prevent the ultimate nightmare of exposure in a Sunday tabloid . |
| 5 | The mode of trial in a Crown Court is known as trial on indictment . |
| 6 | Assignment of the right to payment of the sum of money in a bank account is to be distinguished from the more usual means by which a customer transfers money to someone else . |
| 7 | Assignments of money in a bank account , except by way of charge , are not everyday transactions . |
| 8 | Discuss the role of feedback in a control system . |
| 9 | An accessible model of the self is clearly one of the places that one might look for analogues of consciousness in a machine system . |
| 10 | Pilot study of absenteeism in a manufacturing plant using administrative records |
| 11 | The role of maintenance in a production planning and control system is to so organize maintenance activities that production has the optimum availability of plant and machinery in the conduct of its operations , and that , if an unexpected breakdown occurs , it will be dealt with in the minimum possible time . |
| 12 | Put a bed of lettuce in a serving bowl and add the tomato and cucumber . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the noisy , more drunken and flagrantly homosexual Guy Burgess arrived to join the Washington embassy with a record of indiscretions which included loudly pointing out the local head of intelligence in a Gibraltar restaurant . |
| 14 | The pendulum will swing back with a pope of another complexion and a new phase of more radical reform will curb the structures of ultramontanism in a way Vatican II almost wholly failed to do . |
| 15 | How is it doing that , and more particularly what form is it taking ( for example , the form of law in a market economy ) ? |
| 16 | There is a defence that the distributor , displayer or player who had no intention to stir up racial hatred was ignorant of , and had no reason to suspect that the contents of the item in question were threatening , abusive or insulting , and the section does not apply where the showing or playing of the recording is solely for the purpose of inclusion in a cable programme service . |
| 17 | In fact any intervention with the playing of the game will distort prices , reduce the information contained in them and prevent the full adjustment which is a part and parcel of the creation of wealth in a market economy . |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't expect a lot of polish in a country GP , ’ she said . |
| 19 | The wild , rhythmic drive of the first subject owes much to Shostakovich , yet the second subject would not sound out of place in a Star Trek film score , and its pseudo-oriental counter-theme is pure Hollywood . |
| 20 | I ca n't think of one shot I 've taken that would be out of place in a family album . |
| 21 | EXAMPLE The combustion of a 1.6 g sample of methanol in a flame calorimeter resulted in a temperature rise of 7.8 K. When a 12.0 V supply of electricity with a current of 2.0 A was passed through the contents of the calorimeter for 20 minutes , the temperature rose by 6.2 K. Calculate the molar enthalpy of combustion of methanol under the conditions of the experiment . |
| 22 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 23 | Measurement of radioactivity in a fossil sample compared with modern standard and knowing rate of decay ( half-life ) . |
| 24 | Traders who 've gone out of business in a showpiece shopping complex are suing the developers for damages . |
| 25 | A GIRL of seven died yesterday after being buried under a mountain of grain in a farm silo . |
| 26 | Hitachi Ltd has a new tool for use in building diagnostic and consulting expert systems : called ES-Pormote2/W-DIAG , it is designed to enable the input of knowledge in a tree structure , and it has been available from the beginning of the month at $6,000 ; it runs on the Hitachi 3050 series of Unix workstations and can be used to generate a source code program for Hitachi 's ES/Kernel series of general purpose expert system development tools ; ES-Promote runs under Hitachi 's implementation of Motif and the X Window system . |
| 27 | God answers this question without any hint of rebuke in a covenant promise which speaks to this question directly : ‘ Know this for certain … . ’ |
| 28 | B : The one in 1983 with a picture of Yazoo in a science factory |
| 29 | Another possible use of video in a training programme is to trigger new ideas and expand trainees ' horizons . |
| 30 | As he waited to pose for photographers drinking a glass of water in a City bank , Mr Howard said the Government 's calculations had been overtaken by the surge in the stock market . |