Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected in normal years a clear trading profit of £400 . |
| 2 | Sails without full length battens are frequently called ‘ soft ’ sails , ideally you will need two sails since when you start to sail in strong winds a small sail will be far easier to use . |
| 3 | In political elections , however , candidates are not just persons , they stand for parties , and in political terms a lower preference can count against a higher preference in some circumstances . |
| 4 | In 12 months a staggering total of 5 million under fives will have perished , victims of just one cause : diarrhoeal diseases spread by dirty water . |
| 5 | It is a very clever performance — what they call in theatrical circles a beautiful performance . |
| 6 | Baker tells the story partly to show the varying attitudes to war between the knightly and non-knightly classes , but it also shows how men saw in different languages a clear distinction between nations . |
| 7 | Close to a rocky outcrop were discovered the remains of two bronze statues covered in marine concretions a draped figure 170cm high with no base and only half its head preserved and a bust with a badly corroded head . |
| 8 | Amino-terminal to the HLH region , a further helical sequence of basic residues is found and , in some members a well-conserved leucine zipper is present after the HLH motif . |
| 9 | Surrounding the fuel is a ‘ moderator ’ — in some reactors a solid substance , like graphite , in others , purified water . |
| 10 | The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue . |
| 11 | In some circumstances a better curve for countering an apparent concavity of form can be a very flat cycloid , like a five centred arch . |
| 12 | In some circumstances a hand-held urinal or a commode may make life easier . |
| 13 | ( a ) Specializing , as in the cases of sustaining or promoting work in a particular medium or branch of an art , and in some circumstances a particular style ; |
| 14 | Most indexing terms in a thesaurus are ‘ uniterms ’ or single-concept terms , although in some instances a deliberate decision may be made to include some multi-concept terms . |
| 15 | In some cases a Stipendiary Magistrate sits . |
| 16 | There is no future in raising subscriptions to a point where we are faced with a genuine reluctance , and in some cases a real inability , to pay . |
| 17 | In some cases a pre-existing centre , which already possessed an economic role , will have been incorporated into the new system and perhaps attracted other functions as well . |
| 18 | Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance . |
| 19 | They fear they could lay themselves open to prosecution for murder or manslaughter — or in some cases a civil action for damages — if they disconnect a feeding tube without court permission . |
| 20 | Neighbours who were unwary enough to let the Misses Lovelock look after the chickens in their absence rarely found any eggs awaiting them on their return , and in some cases a plump chicken had died . |
| 21 | Therefore one major trend in rural public transport studies has been a move away from ‘ behavioural ’ to ‘ need ’ studies and in some cases a joint approach . |
| 22 | Partly in response to these feelings , the planners generally showed great interest in , and in some cases a considerable amount of use of , the online information services . |
| 23 | In some cases a single aerial serves a block of flats or a valley area where off-air reception is poor . |
| 24 | I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes . |
| 25 | It is now common for printers , particularly quick print outlets to employ an artist or in some cases a creative team . |
| 26 | In some countries a large majority of the electorate do not even exercise the right to vote . |
| 27 | Firstly , they show that the pattern of villages and hamlets seen on the map today is incomplete and that , contrary to earlier ideas about medieval settlement , in some areas a large number of former sites has disappeared . |
| 28 | ( There is in some machines a lower level called microcode but this need not concern us here . ) |
| 29 | In some cities a relative plethora of doctors and rapid urbanisation have led to a boom in private medical practice , which now provides a substantial amount of curative care for the inhabitants , including the poor ( p 673 ) . |
| 30 | Yet what had previously been an alternative tendency within the general social order , and in some respects a central tendency within the rising industrial bourgeoisie , was now , in this crisis , shifted into an oppositional tendency . |