Example sentences of "and in a [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one condition subjects were specifically instructed to engage in verbal rehearsal of these word pairs and in a second condition they were instructed to use visual imagery to relate the two objects . |
| 2 | Most gardens only have space for a few trees and in a small plot they are almost always in view , therefore careful choice is essential . |
| 3 | I 've enjoyed having you here , and in a small way it will sort of thank David , make it up to him by having his granddaughter to stay . |
| 4 | Their bread and butter is reporting local events and local people and in a small community they are n't out to offend readers or cause major upset through distortion or misrepresentation . |
| 5 | And in a similar fashion you should use the Dipabase to keep the skin as soft and moist as you can |
| 6 | And in a similar fashion I think it 's also important that we look the , the , move towards G P fundholding . |
| 7 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 8 | It makes sense to say , and in a certain situation it will be true , that ( 1 ) if the switch is not flipped , the wipers will not start . |
| 9 | He or she has to generate both questions and answers , and in a well-organised text it is the generating of questions that is the most difficult task . |
| 10 | each the same sort of components , the same components are each colour say in a red individual they 'd all be pinky red colours and in a blue individual they 'd all be a blue colour |
| 11 | Hosts : Horses and donkeys Site : Caecum and colon Species : For many years there has been a great deal of confusion in the classification of this group of parasites and in a recent revision it has been proposed that the genus Trichonema be discarded and replaced by four genera , namely Cyathostomum , Cylicocyclus , Cylicodontophorus and Cylicostephanus , these being collectively referred to as cyathostomes . |
| 12 | And in a democratic society we are able to confer unbelievable power on a boss simply in the expectation that the value of the rewards the boss controls is great enough to make this subjugation bearable , even though , in law , we are equal . |
| 13 | She nodded , and in a strange way I suddenly felt outnumbered . |
| 14 | The buses turned off the main road on to a forestry road running through the woods , and in a little while they arrived at their destination . |
| 15 | He belongs to a minority tribe , the Karen , and in a Buddhist land he follows a minority religion . |
| 16 | With that , Dick changed course , and in a short while they came up from behind the Shuttle . |
| 17 | One reason why you should try to develop the direction in which you think the company should go from both ends of the company at once is that in the process you gain the commitment of those who will have to follow the direction — and ‘ make it happen ’ and in a free society you are unlikely to get this commitment without a high degree of involvement and understanding of both where the ultimate goal is , and the process by which the decisions regarding that goal have been reached . |
| 18 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 19 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 20 | And in a few moments she would be in the privacy of her own cabin , snuggling into a warm sleeping-bag on a thick foam mattress with a fabric cover that matched the padded headrest . |
| 21 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 22 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |
| 23 | In this way you 'd become ill , and in a few months you 'd die . |
| 24 | Jack ‘ I 'll be retiring soon ’ Duncan has finally gone and in a few weeks I shall also have a clear desk and be on my way to Viewforth , Stirling to take up my appointment as Director of Technical Services in Central Region . |
| 25 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
| 26 | John was so sure of an encore that he rehearsed the girls in a burlesque version of a quartet from the Gaiety Theatre in London , and in a later scene they performed a coconut dance — a long-established feature of theatre and street dance of the time . |
| 27 | I see it fantastically in the pages of books I read and in a true sense I see life through the leaves of the willow tree . |
| 28 | Mutely she complied , and in a smooth movement he had stripped her T-shirt from her . |