Example sentences of "in [noun] be [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ paganus ’ in Latin was either a country peasant or , in the language of the army , a civilian . |
| 2 | But the bald statement that a garage has been sold in Middlesbrough is neither a news story , nor of any help to agents working in the market who need to know such details . |
| 3 | Communication of research in progress is largely a matter of informal international personal contacts , rather than through publication of lists of completed theses . |
| 4 | Extra weight in knitting is often a help , as are edge claws and pushing down wheels . |
| 5 | The place that Belov had in mind was just a couple of hundred metres further , he told her . |
| 6 | The words could be stored contiguously in an array , so each element of the array would in effect be just a character , and each word would have to be terminated with a dummy character , for example a null character . |
| 7 | The court said that it would not regard the separability of the information in question as being conclusive , but the fact that the alleged " confidential " information is part of a package and that the remainder of the package is not confidential is likely to throw light on whether the information in question is really a business secret . |
| 8 | And second his promotion of the colonization of the secondary process by primary process in art and in psychoanalysis is also a rejection of the psyche rigidly hierarchized into levels for one in which desire is no longer an underlying ‘ essence ’ . |
| 9 | Snow as well as catkins , bitter winds and hyacinths : spring in Russia is always a conflict , a brief and violent convulsion . |
| 10 | Structural , cellular disorder and collapse in plants is usually a reflection of old age , bad growing conditions or inadequate feeding . |
| 11 | The modernist revolution in art is largely a formalist revolution , or a revolution in which art becomes judged not as much by its content as by its form . |
| 12 | The injection of considerable sums of federal money into many American schools in the 1960s , together with the programmes and methodologies that resulted , arose from and sometimes led to the conclusion that change in education was primarily a matter of provision . |
| 13 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 14 | A fall in rates is often a signal to investors of better times ahead , raising expected returns , shifting the MEI curve to the right , and raising investment ( and conversely ) . |
| 15 | Christmas in Abergavenny was simply a continuation of a year of ‘ good sales ’ . |
| 16 | Making it in Britain is simply a dream for many whites let alone blacks . |
| 17 | This is partly because piracy in Britain is more a game for enthusiasts than a serious business . |
| 18 | In the 1980s he was head of the securities firm 's staff union for two years , which in Japan is traditionally a position held by employees considered to be destined for top positions in the company . |
| 19 | The fourth Test in Trinidad was simply a repeat of the first . |
| 20 | Announcements in newspapers are often a way of communicating information and people write letters and send flowers in return . |
| 21 | The small shop in Tbilisi was only a base , from which to order cloths and make tax returns . |
| 22 | Once we reached the far side of the bridge we went via a very old iron kissing gate into the field which early in summer was always a mass of buttercups . |
| 23 | Why Derrida has had such a vogue in America is indeed a puzzle , as Searle and others have acknowledged . |
| 24 | Its situation in Edinburgh is both a recognition of past and present links between Scandinavia and Scotland and an excellent opportunity for collaboration with other Scandinavian institutions within the city and with the many other departments with Scandinavian interests within the University . |
| 25 | Getting in shape is always a problem when the spring comes and last year was no exception . |
| 26 | If he had had to correlate the conduct of the second Punic War with the decentralization of the Roman state — with its municipia and coloniae — and with the ever-changing pattern of the Italian alliances , he would soon have discovered that his idea of a mixed constitution in Rome was almost a fiction . |
| 27 | Correction : the Semiconductor Industry Association is famed for putting a positive spin on the most downbeat news and making over-optimistic forecasts , so it is as well to check their announcements closely — the $1,771m recorded for chip shipments in April was actually a decline of 19.5% on the figure recorded for March ( CI No 2,166 ) . |
| 28 | It could be that it is reducible to the other needs ; that our belief in convention is purely a function of the degree to which it satisfies our needs for affection , status , and so on . |
| 29 | Nayland in Suffolk was obviously a centre of the clothing trade ; a couple of miles away , Stoke , though equal in size , was completely different , having only a handful of clothiers whose businesses , by local standards were not large . |
| 30 | Thus the development of the mix to meet conditions at a particular point or period in time is essentially a contingency approach to marketing management . |