Example sentences of "in [det] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stated aim of the programme was ‘ to improve the quality of mathematics teaching and to develop in each participating country a nucleus of people knowledgeable in Mathematics and capable of undertaking improvement of Mathematics curriculum ’ . |
| 2 | In that same year a circular was sent to every Nonconformist minister in England and Wales by the Rev. J. B. Paton and a committee which included Hughes , Clifford , R. F. Horton , J. Scott Lidgett , Richard Westrope and A. T. Guttery . |
| 3 | In one instance various methods were contemplated to abate the odour from a maggot farm without success , catalytic incineration finally proving successful , and in another extreme case a company carried out the following trials , without success , in an attempt to abate the odour emanating from their factory : |
| 4 | In this broad extent a number of influences are apparent from the domed churches of Périgord with their Byzantine inspiration to the richly coloured buildings in volcanic materials in the Auvergne . |
| 5 | But words ca n't do justice to Jan Ormerod 's wonderful animal pictures , which make each spread in this large-format picture a joy to look at . |
| 6 | In this earlier study a group of subjects gave unconstrained accident estimates for various manoeuvres at a set of traffic lights ( original statistics from Hall , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | Even in this excruciating extremity a part of Lexandro acknowledged that the former would be folly , the latter would be futile . |
| 8 | The two species live as adults for only 12–16 days ; in this short time a mate must be found . |
| 9 | Anything that is a cause , then , is in this clear sense a power , a power to produce an effect . |
| 10 | CPRW has no doubt that in this particular instance a decision to provide planning consent would be quite disastrous , whereas a rejection would strengthen the value of National Park designation at a time when development pressures of the kind being considered are on the increase . |
| 11 | To qualify in this last category a dependant need not have been related to the deceased , and thus a mistress would be included . |
| 12 | In this last specification a family might include all the diverse forms of descent group , unilineal and other , which have subsequently become part of the jargon of social anthropology , e.g. lineage , patrilineage , matrilineage , personal kindred , ramage , etc . |
| 13 | As with most things in this 24 hour a day town , the bar never closes which is good news for pool and table-football fans who are well catered for here . |
| 14 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 15 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 16 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 17 | You can not conceive of experiences which are not yours ( generalising now from the simple example of pain ) and you can not achieve in any other way a conception of a subject of those experiences who is not you . |
| 18 | In any other case a date must be fixed for hearing and the parties and the guardian ad litem must be given seven days ' notice . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Notwithstanding exceptions to the rule that a solicitor may not act for both seller and buyer , in any such case a solicitor can not act as there is a conflict of interest between the parties . |
| 20 | To qualify as ‘ small ’ or ‘ medium-sized ’ in any financial year a company must meet the qualifying conditions in that year and its previous financial year ( if there was one ) . |
| 21 | In any real case a variation of several hundred from the predicted value would be expected due to chance alone , while predictions based on the two methods do not differ by as much as one record in any file examined by the author . |
| 22 | In any liberal democracy a mobilization of bias is cumulatively created by the outcomes of political and social conflicts . |
| 23 | The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business . |
| 24 | In this way in any given week a member of Ichthus Christian Fellowship will find himself attending a cell on Wednesday night , his own local congregation on Sunday morning and probably the Sunday celebration , for all the congregations of Ichthus , on Sunday night . |