Example sentences of "an [noun] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A big animal , it is early maturing , rapid in growth and good for intensive rearing without putting on fat , but its major characteristic is its extreme double-muscling , which is an advantage in the eyes of the butcher ( the meat is very lean ) but a considerable disadvantage for purebred cows , who in almost all cases must be calved by caesarian section : the muscling interferes with natural calving . |
| 2 | Her imagination promptly sped through a catalogue of punishments which ranged from an hour in the stocks to a beating . |
| 3 | Not one of them would be capable of surviving an hour in the alley-ways of East Yzordderrex , he thought , down by the harbour where even the cats had pimps . |
| 4 | So we did a run-through in the morning which was OK , then had an afternoon in the shallows with the churning machine . |
| 5 | Its influence on village life , along with marriages and other services performed by the church , can be demonstrated by an entry in the records of baptism ; ‘ November 25th 1880 . |
| 6 | This view of the foreign minister as a mere official , an instrument in the hands of his master , was fully shared by the tsars themselves . |
| 7 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 8 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 9 | If the current share price is 8.80 , what is the equilibrium rate of return on an investment in the shares of this firm ? |
| 10 | While I listened , the nurse gave me an injection in the biceps of my left arm . |
| 11 | Zuwaya found that those elements in their image which depended on solidarity among kinsmen — on the massing of cousins , on the exclusion of women — had rather more than an echo in the words of their head of state . |
| 12 | For example , a famous debate , which started with an exchange in the pages of the scholarly journal World Politics in 1966 , was ostensibly an across-the-board one between Behaviouralists and Realists ( or Traditionalists as they were there called ) . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher 's direct , even confrontational style of managing the Cabinet became an issue in the circumstances in which Michael Heseltine resigned in January 1986 . |
| 14 | As an exercise in the skills of understatement and of giving the wrong impression without actually lying , Charles thought that took some beating . |
| 15 | ‘ You are Miles Talbot who once worked as an ale-conner in the taverns round St Paul 's . ’ |
| 16 | Lee 's chief claim to scientific consideration , apart from his patronage , was the construction of an observatory in the grounds of Hartwell House . |
| 17 | This extreme Euro-centric viewpoint was called into question following the fading of prospects for proletarian revolution in Europe , an upsurge in the activities of national liberation movements and the emergence of the national and colonial question within Soviet Russia itself . |
| 18 | Mersey Ferries general manager Ian Thompson said : ‘ I would welcome an inquiry in the interests of both Mersey Ferries and Merseytravel . |
| 19 | Mersey Ferries general manager Ian Thompson said : ‘ I would welcome an inquiry in the interests of both Mersey Ferries and Merseytravel . |
| 20 | When I came across an article in The Times of 18 December 1964 , on cats which could swim , I cut it out and sent it to George Boas … but not to Panofsky . |
| 21 | Barbara , you wrote an article in the Times about all of this , you 've been following Elton John 's comings and goings in the court , what did you think |
| 22 | Or , er , an article in the Times about crime prevention , or problems with youth , you could tell the difference , could n't you . |
| 23 | My wife read an article in the hairdressers about Taxol and told me about it . |
| 24 | The reorganization was recommended by an engineer in the pages of a leading Petrograd journal , since he thought it would lead to the dissemination of experts . |
| 25 | It is in this vast area of the unknown that transcendent beauty resides , When we clothe an object in the garments of this unknowable , our souls respond and we are moved . |
| 26 | To the extent that there is an elision in the terms of debate , and the concept of postmodern arrangements is aligned only with a ‘ free ’ labour market variant of organizational forms , which actually means freedom for a few and restriction to much more repressive conditions for the many , then the terms of debate and choice are unnecessarily restricted . |
| 27 | Mr Evans says dance halls and cinemas are haunts of the Devil and a frivolous woman is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord . ’ |
| 28 | Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote . |
| 29 | Suffice it to say that a company may use public relations activities , and what is called " corporate advertising " to try to build up an image in the minds of target individuals and groups who are likely to be influential in purchase decision-making . |
| 30 | Much was done , again , by the work of mathematicians such as Euler , Bernouilli and Borda on fluid resistance and floating bodies , to make possible an improvement in the lines of sailing-ships . |