Example sentences of "in a [adj] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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1 | In a developed legal system the rules of recognition are of course more complex ; instead of identifying rules exclusively by reference to a text or list they do so by reference to some general characteristic possessed by the primary rules . |
2 | In a simple conditioning procedure the value of V will grow from trial to trial as a result of CS-US pairings and in consequence the value of a will fall . |
3 | In a strong magnetic field the allowed energy states form a fairly evenly-spaced succession 0 , 1 , 2 , … of so called Landau levels . |
4 | By comparing the amount of C in organic remains with that in a similar living plant the age of the remains can be determined . |
5 | In a typical institutional kitchen the combination of floor tile , water , grease , food spills and so on can make for a very dangerous environment . |
6 | Indifference is not neutrality , and even in a controlled professional relationship the quality of physical care is emotionally significant . |
7 | There 's a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley about a traveller in the desert who finds in a vast empty plain the feet of what once was a colossal statue , and engraved on the plaque below the feet are the words , |
8 | In a crucial explanatory passage the narrator tells us : This marks a great step in Lok 's intellectual development . |
9 | It seems to have arisen from the report of Levy-Agresti and Sperry ( 1968 ) that in a visuo-tactile matching task the two hemispheres of split-brain patients solved the problems in characteristically different ways . |
10 | Mosca , like Pareto , is concerned to demolish democratic illusions about the altruism of the elite , but he recognises a positive dynamic relationship between rulers and ruled , and implies that the elite has an ideological function in that it expresses in a coherent rationalising way the moral unity of society through the rule of law . |
11 | In a long tense pause the only noise was of sobbing and the voice that ended the pause was plaintive . |
12 | Choosing a toroidal shape there are still lots of possible ways for the lines to arrange themselves , but in a good permanent magnet the flux lines will be circles with centres at 0 , the centre of the toroid ( Fig. 3.11 ( a ) ) . |
13 | It has been estimated that in a narrow clinical sense the Famine probably accounted for under 15 per cent of the extra mortality recorded at the height of the disaster in Saratov in 1921–2 : but in a broader sense , including deaths due to severe malnutrition and other causes , the Famine contributed to most of the rise in mortality that took place before the 1922 harvest . |
14 | In a massive postal exercise the UKCC updated these records . |
15 | After a run in period of three months taking placebo given in a single blind fashion the patients were randomised into two groups by blocks of four using a computer generated random number list . |
16 | In a human pharmaceutical factory the synthesis of a useful chemical needs a production line . |
17 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
18 | The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over . |
19 | It is impossible to convey to an outsider in a few short words the hothouse emotional atmosphere of such an establishment , with its all-too-conscientiously suppressed sexuality , and the consequent hysteria , or just plain silliness . |
20 | It is likely that if five other tokens were considered from a different section of text gathered in a comparable social context the score would turn out to be very different say 80 per cent . |
21 | In a public limited company the shares are usually freely transferable . |
22 | In a strict linguistic sense the concept is anachronistic , since it was not referenced in England until the 1890s . |
23 | I suggested , as a possibility , the events of AD 196 , when in an Imperial civil war the governor of Britain , Clodius Albinus had made a bid for the throne . |
24 | In an industrialized urban area the job , especially in the northern authority , is essentially one of cleaning up heavily polluted rivers , but in rural areas , where there are fewer sources of pollution , field officers are more concerned with preserving high standards of water quality . |
25 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |