Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The patron could be either a large client or a ‘ broker ’ , in the case here a firm of land agents .
2 From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today .
3 Well that one really is I mean cos I see them up in the woods quite a lot
4 in the winter once a month .
5 Writers of computer applications software were quick to realise the mass market potential of business software and in the UK especially a wealth of talent exists for producing low-cost packaged software for an ever-increasing range of applications .
6 In the UK only a handful of county emergency planning departments ( Cumbria , for instance ) have built up resource databases in digital form and this needs to be promoted .
7 In the bar upstairs a juke-box started up loudly .
8 To approach a lake with delicacy and quietness , to blend in with the background and , once the bait is in the water only a rod 's length out , to sit there with bated breath , using every available piece of cover .
9 Well , I see her in the Naafi quite a lot .
10 Miss Simpson and I are going to stay in the house quite a while .
11 There have been some important developments since the Bill was last debated in the House almost a year ago .
12 As the hon. Gentleman knows , we hold televised debates in the House twice a week
13 The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days .
14 To relieve tensions in the week before a Cup tie , players were usually taken to Brighton , where the routine was golf on Monday morning , followed by sea-water baths , more golf , training sessions at Brighton FC 's ground and ( compulsory ) cinema visits in the evenings .
15 She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away .
16 My plea was wholly contained in the events barely a day old and swiftly took the Bench and the entire Court through the squirt of 174 cannon shells , the wounded , the flight engineer 's heroic effort in repairing the devastated controls twice , his treatment of the wounded and his immediate award of a DFM , which he had been celebrating .
17 I think it 'll have to be put in the garage and then put in the car once a week or something .
18 The critic never finds it , but Todorov sees in the tale both a set of instructions for any critic of literature and an outline of the figure to be read in the carpet of James 's own work .
19 He went hunting in Grasmere , and often stayed on for a party in the evening after a hunt .
20 By mid-December , with the scandal in the news barely a month , a Hollywood producer , Jay Weston , already had his eyes on it .
21 The Manchester outrage is a considerable escalation from the terrorists ' last attempt to place bombs in the city almost a year ago to the day .
22 He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’
23 He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold .
24 Q : You had been in the business almost a decade before you appeared in a blockbuster .
25 they 've gone down in the world again a bit .
26 This man , chamberlain , sheriff , Lord Mayor of York , member of parliament for the city , er master of the king 's mint , an important man , a local man , come up in the world quite a lot cos his grandfather had just been an apothecary living on the corner of er Grape Lane going up and up and up .
27 We visited Kaprun last June and , with the snow on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier slushy by midday , we had a wonderful time in the afternoons following a picnic lunch in a meadow or dining on a terrace across the lake from Zell am See , 15 minutes away by Post Bus .
28 She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York .
29 Results of psycholinguistic experiments to do with the intelligibility of words spliced out of context seem to cast doubt on the usefulness of the categorization , however , Lieberman ( 1963 ) found that , the word borrower was recognised by 80% of subjects when isolated from the context , The borrowers were all imprisoned , but was only 45% intelligible in the context Neither a borrower nor a lender be .
30 Hence if a trigram was not present in the corpus then a probability was generated for it based on the bigrams , and if the bigram was absent the probability was based on the unigram .
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