Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French doctors have treated dozens of patients in minutes using only a local anaesthetic . |
| 2 | The challenge of the emerging technologies and new media has also led to publishers in Germany setting up a new working group on electronic publishing , the Verleger-Arbeitskreis Elektronisches Publizieren . |
| 3 | Magistrates in Southport heard how a shocked couple took away more than they bargained for after visiting the Lalquila takeaway in the town 's High Park Road . |
| 4 | The Keynesian then considers the implications in terms of the income — expenditure model of Chapter 10 , with any increase in investment bringing about a magnified increase in national income through the workings of the multiplier . |
| 5 | Just as the critics were beginning to complain about overdoses of city life along came Cagney to inject new energy into the genre and in effect to open up a new era for the movies . |
| 6 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 7 | A shift in the weather pattern , bringing low pressure systems across the Alps in December laid down a firm base . |
| 8 | Moreover , the socialist ideology of Cuba meant a different motivation for pupils and workers from that existing in capitalist countries — ‘ to work for collective rather than personal objectives ’ — with the result that education in Cuba became both a technical and an ideological force for greater productivity . |
| 9 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 10 | Needless to say I got a little excited and told him to quietly shut the engine down and if he wanted to wash the coveralls tonight in gasoline to go about a hundred and fifty yards over there . |
| 11 | In 1879 , breeders in Friesland set up a separate herdbook , the Friesch Rundvee Stamboek ( FRS ) . |
| 12 | Two further ethnic disputes reached the point of violence and bloodshed during 1989 and 1990 : a dispute between Meskhetian Turks and the native population in the Ferghana valley in eastern Uzbekistan , and a complex dispute in Georgia involving both a strong separatist movement and communal tensions between Georgians and Abkhazians , a national minority within Georgia itself . |
| 13 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 14 | Consequently , secondary-school pupils in China have only a limited opportunity to go into higher education and in this sense , those who do make it can be viewed as a privileged elite . |
| 15 | After the meeting it was announced that the Lebanese-Syrian Supreme Council would convene after the formation of a new Lebanese government in October to draw up a comprehensive timetable for a Syrian withdrawal . |
| 16 | A girl in breeches led out a grey horse and said , ‘ I 'm Fay . |
| 17 | During the French Revolution in about 1790 , mathematicians and scientists in France worked out a new system of measurement . |
| 18 | Iskandarov 's Islamic coalition had survived an attempted coup in October by supporters of the former communist President Rakhmon Nabiyev , whose removal from power in September sparked off a smouldering civil war [ see pp. 39097-98 ; 39147 ] . |
| 19 | ‘ Timex is hoping to be the first in Europe to turn out a new £2,000 hi-fi system . |
| 20 | Fourth , it stipulated that once Saddam Hussein had been overthrown " direct and free " elections would be held to a constituent council , which would in turn draw up a new constitution . |
| 21 | This could in turn explain why a higher proportion of experimental eggs were rejected at Santa Fe than at Guadix , because hosts are known to be more likely to reject alien eggs when they are alerted by encounters with the adult parasite in the vicinity of their nest . |
| 22 | In a small group discussion , it would be inappropriate and wasteful of valuable opportunities for interactive learning if the participants sat in silence sorting out a considered statement which each delivered when ready . |
| 23 | Sometimes the choice of non-English knights , without lands in England , might be troublesome — the Savoyard Jean de Grilly , for example , used his position as lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine to build up a considerable territorial holding in the Bordelais . |
| 24 | Johnnie Armstrong 's power over the region became so great , and the ill doings of his ‘ riding family ’ and associates so flagrant , that protests from England and the growing wrath of young James V in Edinburgh brought about a fatal confrontation . |
| 25 | IN FEBRUARY the High Court in London heard how a Sussex-based antiques dealer knocked on the door of an elderly spinster 's Knightsbridge flat and talked her into parting with an art collection worth more than £30,000 . |
| 26 | Of course , consistency in notation builds up a certain level of skill with that notation , but it is vitally important to develop skills at least partially independent of a single notation . |
| 27 | At the end of 1919 Lenin showed Russian indifference by offering virtually all of Belorussia to Poland in order to stave off a Polish offensive , but the most telling instance of Russia 's attitude had already occurred after the German withdrawal in December 1918 , when the Northwestern Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party held a conference at Smolensk . |
| 28 | The rod , in order to pick up a long length of sunken line , should be a minimum of 11ft long , and a maximum of 12ft or it becomes unwieldy . |
| 29 | But Vienna proved to be the last summit for six years and SALT II was never ratified by the US Senate , for in December the Red Army invaded neighbouring Afghanistan in order to prop up a weak Marxist government . |
| 30 | On balance , it is probably helpful to think firstly in terms of the three broad categories , so as to separate the main production options available , and secondly in terms of the more detailed breakdown in order to draw up a truer picture of what may be possible in practice . |