Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas engaged in a long-term programme of social engineering . |
| 2 | It was the noise of something stretching and straining under enormous , impossible pressure ; as if the very fabric of that wall must suddenly explode inwards , enveloping them in a deadly blast of shattered brick and concrete . |
| 3 | Leith was still puzzling at it when , bathed and dressed in a silky-finish dress of deep amber , she brushed her hair . |
| 4 | COURTAULDS Packaging Colodense has come top in a prestigious survey of major flexible packaging companies in the UK . |
| 5 | In a final burst of bad temper , Mr Fang said that his time had been wasted . |
| 6 | To this day the building has a remarkable power in a modern city of concrete skyscrapers and oppressive traffic . |
| 7 | It could have accepted the proposals which I put forward to rationalise and institutionalise the administrative jurisdiction in a boldly-conceived system of administrative courts separated to a large extent from the ordinary routine of departmental administration and free from indirect ministerial interference . |
| 8 | In a classic piece of political misjudgment he even told his party conference in a speech that the poll tax would win the Tories the next election . |
| 9 | And if agreement can be attained on moral standards , to the point where they can be embodied in a global system of enforceable law , we are in business . |
| 10 | He had the revolutionary idea that gravity was not just a force that operated in a fixed background of space-time . |
| 11 | His portrayal is the only real entertainment in a right load of old cobblers which has George Corraface as the Genoese explorer who finally gets Queen Isabella ( Rachel Ward ) to stump up the cash which will allow him to seek an alternative route to the spice-rich Indies . |
| 12 | The most obvious impact was in directly military terms since the county stood yet again in a front line of European conflict and this led to a growing strain on the traditional method of local defence , the county militia . |
| 13 | The drought has its origins in a persistent pattern of atmospheric circulation that has affected the whole of the southern hemisphere , bringing drought also to South Africa and parts of South America , and probably related to the return of El Nino , a surge of warm ocean water off the western seaboard of South America ( see box ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I think that it is tremendous that the Australian Wine Bureau is offering so many people the chance to play tennis competitively at great venues and I am looking forward to passing on a few tips to the winners — before joining them in a celebratory glass of Australian wine . ’ |
| 15 | Instead , she took a long , hot bath , scattering in a lavish handful of scented flakes and letting the perfumed water ease some of the tension from her body . |
| 16 | The sound of that distraught weeping brought that June afternoon back to him in a stabbing flash of inner pain . |
| 17 | Dressed in a flared skirt of fine wool which she topped with a shirt and a sweater , Fabia , with a jacket over her arm and too impatient to wait for the lift , hurried down the stairs to meet him . |
| 18 | Unknown gunmen on July 17 shot and killed a UN guard in a remote part of Iraqi Kurdistan . |
| 19 | As a result , those at the bottom of the social heap were abandoned in a perverse kind of educational apartheid . |
| 20 | There-fore , it is timely to compare angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors with other antihypertensive drugs on glomerular filtration rate in a representative sample of normotensive patients with insulin dependent diabetes and persistent microalbuminuria . |
| 21 | The object of this research is to further consider material , collected in 1980/81 from residents and staff in a representative sample of local authority homes throughout England with a view to developing a multivariate model of the factors which impinge upon the daily lives of those who live and work in old people 's homes . |
| 22 | Peter Brown , chairman of the Thomas Coram foundation , said : ‘ Unless the human imperative of individual dereliction is addressed alongside the more visual investment in environmental dereliction , and however well we spend it this means more money , the country will find itself in a downward spiral of inner-city social decay that could well substitute Drug Alley for the Gin Lane of Coram 's and Hogarth 's day . ’ |
| 23 | One body , at least , was a sacrificial victim , probably a highborn man thrice ritually killed , with an axe , by garrotting , and by having his throat cut , perhaps to appease terrible gods in a dark phase of Celtic history . |
| 24 | I will become a functioning member by involving myself in a specific area of regular Christian service within my church . |
| 25 | In addition to its extensive product range , BIOSYM has formed consortia , dedicated to advancing the software research tools in a specific area of scientific study : |
| 26 | During the early Anglo-Saxon period a diet having a' coarse physical consistency' resulted in a lower incidence of dental caries compared with modern populations . |
| 27 | The fact that acts of violence , aggression , or even boastfulness ( buagun ) are consistently condemned , and the lack of any positive evaluation of acts of ‘ bravery ’ or ‘ courage ’ , may result in a lower rate of deliberate maiming and homicide among the Buid than among populations which attach positive evaluations to such acts ( everything else being equal ) . |
| 28 | While TNCs are certainly to be found in a wide variety of economic sectors they share the same basic function of capital accumulation on a global scale , and the same consistent character of having to work out global strategies to ensure their continued growth . |
| 29 | French may be studied at Edinburgh not only at all levels of MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) but as a single honours subject ( with a secondary subject taken in the first two years ) ; or as the major or minor subject in a wide variety of joint degrees , where it is combined with another modern European language , or with one of a number of Arts Faculty subjects , or even with subjects ( Business Studies and Law ) from other faculties . |
| 30 | Ultimately , the DSP 715 is a powerful stand-alone combo , designed to be used in a wide variety of professional situations , yet with the capability , via the 715 ‘ E ’ extension cabinet , of even greater volumes for large capacity gigs . |