Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Supreme Court ruled in the 1970s that a black journalist had to reveal his source of information about the Black Panthers to a criminal grand jury . |
| 2 | The difficulty of resolving this issue contributed to the failure of proposals in the 1970s for a Scottish assembly when Labour was last in power . |
| 3 | They looked lovely on the mantelpiece in the flat but a new bouquet would not go astray at this stage . |
| 4 | Those views she had been taught in the twenties while a young girl , that men do not love or respect , still less marry , women who have ‘ given themselves ’ to them , she had been obliged to revise . |
| 5 | In each case students registered for the module in the current or a future term must be counselled about and registered for viable alternative programmes . |
| 6 | Pyatt crashed in combinations at will in the third and a punishing left to the jaw broke the Guyanan 's resistance , and referee Richard Davies rightly intervened . |
| 7 | It is a fair assumption that the CBI knows at least as much about manufacturing as the hon. Lady does , and she will see a commendation of the Government 's policy in the 1980s and a firm recommendation that it should continue . |
| 8 | Sir Bartle Frere , the Governor of Bombay in the 1860s and a great enthusiast for railways , pointed out to his London masters that for these reasons the Indian station required three or four times more space than its British counterpart . |
| 9 | If the East Europeans could have offered a bit more in the loose and a great deal more behind the scrum , they would have reaped some reward for their excellent work in the line-out . |
| 10 | Instead , the vendor will normally seek undertakings from the purchaser only to operate the business in the same or a similar manner to the way it was operated before the sale . |
| 11 | Of course , there was a bit of a shake out in the mid-seventies and a fair number disappeared , which might explain … ’ |
| 12 | Following Sambrook 's logic , though he does not use these terms , this image may interpreted either in a descriptive or a normative sense . |
| 13 | The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way . |
| 14 | His aim was to determine whether single letters are dealt with by the right hemisphere in a visual or a phonological code . |
| 15 | The living room , the bedrooms , the bathroom , the rooms ’ height and other dimensions are therefore the same in a small or a big town . ’ |
| 16 | Beyond that , de Gaulle 's policy failed both in a narrow and a broad sense . |
| 17 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 18 | Despite its title , the Public Order Act creates some offences which apply whether the conduct takes place in a public or a private place . |
| 19 | Section 4(2) of the Public Order Act 1986 extends the old Section 5 breach of the peace offence by providing : An offence under this section may be committed in a public or a private place , except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation is distributed or displayed , by a person inside a dwelling and the other person is also inside that or another dwelling . |
| 20 | ‘ The location of the offence can be described in evidence by any witness of the incident to show that it occurred in a public or a private place . |
| 21 | ‘ ( 2 ) An offence under this section may be committed in a public or a private place , except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation is distributed or displayed , by a person inside a dwelling and the other person is also inside that or another dwelling . ’ |
| 22 | Consequently , the Hispano-German " summit " resulted in no more than a secret protocol which confirmed the Spanish intention to enter the war on the Axis ' side , but allowed Franco to decide when the right moment had arrived to do so . |