Example sentences of "a [noun] in [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Hartwell Schulman of the Institute of Medical Climatologists has shown that just before a storm there is a reduction in atmospheric pressure which causes blood circulation to slow down . |
| 2 | Better driving will mean less wear and tear on vehicles and a reduction in accidental damage which will bring down our costs . ’ |
| 3 | Thus a rise in monetary growth which is anticipated will have no effect on the level of unemployment . |
| 4 | Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ . |
| 5 | Using the tax function introduced above , the multiplier for a change in government expenditure becomes and for a change in autonomous taxation it is |
| 6 | He also points out that a commitment to equality implies also a commitment to a state which will push everybody around until they are equal — Procrustes was a figure in Greek mythology who forced all those he came across to become the same height , either by chopping bits off or by using a rack to stretch their legs . |
| 7 | First , the decision would strengthen the cohesion of NATO following a gap in Western defence which the Soviet Union 's deployment of medium-range SS-20 missiles had exposed . |
| 8 | It is just not realized that it is possible or even legal to arrange a funeral without employing undertakers — a gap in public knowledge which , of course , the undertakers do little to fill . |
| 9 | THE NEXT DAY , fourteen roses were planted in the snowbanks outside the Polytechnique with a card in Gothic script which read : Father , in the name of your son I pray to you on his behalf . |
| 10 | Following a break in nursing practice there may be an understandable hesitation and anxiety about returning because of the inevitable changes that will have taken place . |
| 11 | As a result in this country we have had a heavy tax burden and a structure of taxation which is a major disincentive to take risk , to invest and even to work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Forty suggests that the attraction of the neo-classical , which emerged from a somewhat wider range as the most successful of Wedgewood 's styles , was that it provided an acceptable facade for the introduction of the advances being made by ceramic science , the most modern techniques thereby being employed in the improvement of reproductions , a tension in commercial styling which has been strongly asserted ever since . |
| 14 | They were willing to accept a cut in transitional benefit which would have had the effect of ‘ throwing at least some of those receiving transitional benefit upon public assistance ’ , while Henderson pressed hard for a ‘ premium ’ , a flat deduction of 1s. a week from all unemployment benefits . |
| 15 | " there 's the very devil of a horseman in yonder field who thinks nothing of eating three tigers for breakfast ! " |
| 16 | He was granted a football scholarship to attend UCLA and after graduating with a degree in Political Science his dream was realized when he signed for the New York Giants , the team he had supported since childhood , as a rookie quarterback . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is a shift in negative potential which occurs when subjects are presented with a stimulus signalling some imminent event to which they must respond . |
| 20 | When the package is released as a product in this way it is known as an Issue of the software . |
| 21 | ‘ We used to have a shop in this block which sold leads , collars , blankets , and so on , to anybody who took a rescued dog from us for rehoming . |
| 22 | He is looking for a contact in each region who he can ring monthly to find out what 's happening in the Community Care field that would be of particular interest to the Voluntary sector e.g. contracts , consultations etc . |
| 23 | But Mr Plant denied that Timothy Gedge had been a nuisance in any way whatsoever . |
| 24 | Thus , Field J. postulated the case of a wife in poor health who refused intercourse and who was forced to comply by her husband who enlisted the aid of a third party to subdue her . |
| 25 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
| 26 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 27 | I 'm not sure you could take a tabloid in this direction I 'm about to propose that would also appeal to some popular customers , but it 's like , last night everyone was reminiscing about Type ninety and the high points and one of the things that came out in conversation was that there was enormous amount of sex going on which I suppose there is at all conferences , you know , but this one seemed to be , you know , the randiest conference in recent memory . |
| 28 | A CAREER IN CORPORATE FINANCE Anybody can buy a pair of red braces , but the symbolic variety is only available to highly-qualified workaholics with the right personality profile |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Er new housing has to be a priority in this area I I should have I would think . |