Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South African Olive Schreiner 's Three Dreams in a Desert presents a Utopian vision of gender equality which , a century later , is still unrealised . |
| 2 | Police said that the company 's records showed that the Moslem Brotherhood had been involved in a plot to overthrow the Egyptian government and create an Islamic state , with the support of foreign countries including Afghanistan , Iran , Iraq , Pakistan and Turkey . |
| 3 | DR AHMAD OSMAN SIRAJ : a 46-year-old senior lecturer at the University of Khartoum 's medical school , he is serving a 15 year sentence for his alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the military government of General Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir . |
| 4 | Are these people afraid to expose themselves in a panel condemning the National Health Service or just to sit in the background and make any comments ? |
| 5 | The second set of findings suggests that , when the information in a clause containing an anaphoric expression is integrated into the existing mental model , the interpretation of that clause is often incomplete , in a sense that we will define below . |
| 6 | Results reported by Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) using monitoring tasks also show that the completeness of information in a clause has an important influence on its processing . |
| 7 | Similarly in a case involving a French corporation , an order for depositions and document production at the offices of New York attorneys was not regarded as in conflict with the Convention ; all that was to happen on French soil was ‘ certain acts preparatory to the giving of evidence ’ , the selection of appropriate employees to travel to New York and of relevant documents to be disclosed in New York . |
| 8 | In a case involving a brutal sexual assault by a guardsman , Slynn J. stated : ‘ It does not seem to me that the appellant is a criminal in the sense in which that word is used frequently in these courts . |
| 9 | The extent to which trade unions are disadvantaged by the rules developed by the judiciary is shown in a case involving the National Union of Teachers . |
| 10 | It had been decided in a case following the 1976 act that that right still existed . |
| 11 | CHEF Jerry Toth struck gold when he came top in a competition to find the best in Britain . |
| 12 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 13 | Like most human beings of whatever condition or culture who send out and receive such close scrutiny in a public place the two of them dimly sensed at one tissue-thin layer within the oldest parts of themselves that the strangely alternating processes of mutual assessment had not been entirely used up . |
| 14 | There seems no reason why an express provision could not be included in a contract to achieve the same result ; for instance : It is agreed that if any of the goods included in the Buyer 's order have been delivered before the formation of this contract , the provisions of this agreement shall apply to those goods and govern the rights and liabilities of the parties in relation to those goods . |
| 15 | But in a barnstorming finish the former England international striker pounced to give Rangers a deserved draw . |
| 16 | But in a barnstorming finish the former England international striker pounced to give Rangers a deserved draw . |
| 17 | The Alliance united the traditional communities of Amazonia ( Indians , rubber-tappers , Brazil nut gatherers , fishermen ) in a crusade to save the great forest with which they had lived in harmony for generations . |
| 18 | Conversely , the process of dissolving a gas in a solvent to form a saturated solution is an exothermic process . |
| 19 | For example , it might seem curious that a member of the RICS could be a director of a commercial company offering a range of services to the public , yet not be permitted to occupy the same position in a company offering the very skill for which he has been trained . |
| 20 | Durie was booked by Banbury referee Dermot Gallagher for ungentlemanly conduct after collapsing in a heap following an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with Pearce , who last night was unavailable for comment . |
| 21 | Putting preconditioning in a bottle remains a pharmacological challenge . |
| 22 | Now it is assumed all in a household have an equal share of the total income . |
| 23 | The accuracy of the result can be checked in a column showing the present value for that term . |
| 24 | A teenager has appeared in court after a schoolgirl was killed in a crash involving a stolen car . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the funeral has been held of a fifteen year old girl who was killed in a crash involving a stolen car . |
| 26 | A family came walking by — Mum and Dad with two kids , one licking an ice-cream and the other in a pushchair sucking an iced lolly , red sticky streaks running down its chin . |
| 27 | Since by definition jewellery reflects and in a sense embodies the social order , it should hardly be surprising , still less an occasion for despair , that social change as profound as that which marked the transition from an aristocratic to a democratic order should have brought about drastic changes in the uses to which precious substances were put . |
| 28 | The words and the theatrical element have in a sense taken the musical wind out of your sails . |
| 29 | Through such relations the bureaucracy was , for Hegel , in a position to transcend the particularistic wills and interests of society . |
| 30 | Two years later , in 1967 , ANDES was in a position to organize the first general strike by teachers to protest against cuts in the education budget in the name of rationalization . |