Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the tax function introduced above , the multiplier for a change in government expenditure becomes and for a change in autonomous taxation it is |
| 2 | If this were a study in local history we should now , of course , be looking ever more closely at the ups and downs of everyday life in Frome . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob . |
| 4 | As a boy in high school he 'd progressed from World-War-I aircraft-kits to model railways , his mind and his hands responding most happily to the assemblage of pistons , valves , wheels , with their appropriate adjustments and lubrications . |
| 5 | It is the outcome of a series of contracts between the founding shareholders : in so far as the state has a role in corporate creation it is not materially different from its role in enforcing contracts in general . |
| 6 | Nails ' strategy turned out to be simple : if you put a non-swimmer in deep water it would turn into a swimmer through mere self-preservation . |
| 7 | Dwyer , who guided the Aussies to World Cup victory last year , insists : ‘ There has been such an improvement in Welsh rugby it could be us who go in as underdogs . ’ |
| 8 | In such an organization in Swedish society it is not possible to run an idea-handling system successfully . |
| 9 | If Britain had an interest in European co-operation it was as a way to withstand Soviet pressure and underpin British independence , not as a way to control Germany . |