Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] in [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am always loth to leave Middle Washfold : unlike many cave surrounds , it is friendly , a pleasant study in green and white . |
| 2 | The regional paper for West Asia presented to the UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development ( UNCSTD ) , held in Vienna in August 1979 said : ‘ Though there exists a rich heritage in design and construction from Hadhramaut to Nubia , there is very little concern for these technologies … these beautiful structures decorate travel literature . ’ |
| 3 | With the help of outplacement consultants and Chartac ( phone : 071–628 7060 ) , which runs regular seminars and one to one discussions , Tanya is optimistic that she will find a job in a medium-sized company in commerce and industry , as number two or three to the financial director . |
| 4 | Each stage is characterized by a simultaneous increase in abstraction and particularization , which are held in tension with one another , and each is taken to present greater difficulties for the subject attempting to resolve these into its own development . |
| 5 | One can take this either as evidence of a divine purpose in Creation and the choice of the laws of science or as support for the strong anthropic principle . |
| 6 | The information is fed directly into a computer and the digitised information printed out as a linear contour map or as a solid representation in light and shade . |
| 7 | Another strategy employed mostly by white youth is to delay a possible career in sport whilst completing higher education . |
| 8 | The police needed to obtain firm evidence to support a possible prosecution in court and the underlying fear was that untimely or precipitous social work intervention could compromise vital testimonies or material productions . |
| 9 | This indicates a possible difference in meaning or function between the two . |
| 10 | Describing 1989 as ‘ a fantastic year for freedom ’ , Mrs Thatcher said 1979 had been a turning point in history and Conservatives were the pathfinders . |
| 11 | A family may have a low income in work because of low pay , or out of work from social security benefits . |
| 12 | Although slow and the wrong side of 43 , ‘ Gabby ’ Hinton was classy and a strong believer in football and family entertainment . |
| 13 | As Paolozzi explains in this leaflet , ‘ The whole represents a strong belief in optimism and progress ’ . |
| 14 | The whole represents a strong belief in optimism and progress . |
| 15 | Namely a lot of doddery old buffers with a strong line in protocol and a hazy notion of fair play , plus various ornaments of diplomacy . |
| 16 | Sue and Reg both have a strong interest in furniture and furnishings . |
| 17 | Although having science degrees , Matthew always had a strong interest in art and design . |
| 18 | In the case of socialist parties , which gave the original impetus , the party was very largely an extension of an existing mass movement into the sphere of electoral politics , whereas conservative and liberal parties , which already had a strong representation in parliament and government , created their mass organization mainly from above , under the control of the parliamentary leaders . |
| 19 | Forty-three out of the 123 reported a definite reduction in cellulite and a further 35 said they thought it had improved . |
| 20 | First , the Authority 's approach to each of the elements of practice central to PNP — needs , curriculum , teaching strategies and home-school — can now be strengthened and extended in the light of the material presented in our twelve reports ; each of these elements , though specific to PNP , is also a perennial concern in education and the issues therefore remain important . |
| 21 | Until the 1983–84 submission to the CNAA ( discussed below ) , for example , several new areas felt constrained and unconvinced by aspects of the operation ( especially timetabling ) which made perfect sense for a full-time course in science but considerably less for other kinds of demands . |
| 22 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 23 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 24 | The difficulty with standard significance tests is that their valid and effective use usually depends on the way the data are approached — for example whether the research has been designed with a specific hypothesis in mind or a less focused post hoc analysis is being carried out with a view to revealing underlying patterns . |
| 25 | BSL therefore stores story information and re-tells it in a way which would occur for all languages , but spoken language surface structure ( reflecting only a specific point in time and context ) would tend to hide this in its effort for reconstruction of meaning . |
| 26 | The same is true of exx.1b and 1c from the ‘ Jupiter ’ Symphony , since a note has to be reasonably short for the stroke to be perceived as staccato sign , shorter certainly than a dotted minim in allegretto or tied semibreves in any tempo . |
| 27 | On the seats there was a tall man in stetson and jeans and a Mexican girl listening to a Spanish station on her transistor radio and flipping the gatefold of Playboy . |
| 28 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 29 | As the experiment wore on , however , there was clear evidence that loss of sleep was beginning to dominate the results , there being a progressive increase in fatigue and decrease in the speed of shooting at a target . |
| 30 | The individual piece-parts can be drawn on to separate layers of a working drawing in order that their movement can be visualized from any number of positions and orientations . |