Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade marks are especially important in a fast-moving industry and it is very comforting to buy goods with familiar names when so many products and businesses come and go in rapid succession , as happened with microcomputers in the early 1980s . |
| 2 | Superficially , Mr Akhtar 's compromise has appeal in a liberal/secular society because it is designed to protect human sensitivities which we all recognise , rather than to appease a deity in whom relatively few believe . |
| 3 | It is useful for would-be choreographers to study the historical development of classical style so that they may stage a ballet in a traditional way when it has a story firmly linked to a particular time and place . |
| 4 | It was put away in a dark basement because it was too horrible . |
| 5 | ‘ Towing a whale around in a tiny cage when it is used to roaming the oceans defies belief and serves no purpose in welfare or education terms , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The Royal Family was a constant in a fast-changing world though it seemed ready to change with the times . |
| 7 | It may be preferable to keep the puppy in a suitable pen while it is teething when you are away from home . |
| 8 | ‘ But it was for richer or poorer and I 'd be happy to live in a cardboard box if it was with my husband . |
| 9 | Erm what a situation we 're in when you ca n't get your appeal through in a reasonable time and it actually results in that sort of nonsense taking place . |
| 10 | Then if the assembler wants to make changes to the contract , the body-maker is in a strong position because it can threaten to keep both employees and assets working to the original contracts . |
| 11 | In times of low unemployment labour will be in a strong position because it is in demand by employers and is not easily substituted . |
| 12 | ONE of two teenagers killed in a stolen car when it crashed into a tree in west Belfast will be buried on Saturday . |
| 13 | An ordinary NHS patient can ask to be given a greater degree of privacy in a separate room if it is not needed on medical grounds for other patients , and can pay for the privilege . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We are now living in a post-apartheid era and it is about time member of the Labour group came to realise that . ’ |
| 15 | It should complement the Bishop 's Park which by then , it is hoped , will be kept in a better state than it is at the moment . |
| 16 | In the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor , at p. 102 , ‘ its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . ’ |
| 17 | In my judgment its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . |
| 18 | This would put the vendor in a better position than it would have otherwise been in had the sale not taken place . |
| 19 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 20 | The district health authority could not be in a better position because it allowed the situation to drift . |
| 21 | Newly conserved and cleaned , the altarpiece is now on display on the second floor of the Ahmanson Building , mounted in a temporary frame as it awaits a Renaissance-style gilt and sculpted frame being made in Florence . |
| 22 | Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century . |
| 23 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 24 | ‘ But I got my hand there in a reflex action and it took the worst of it . |
| 25 | But I got my hand there in a reflex action and it took the worst of it . |
| 26 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 27 | Outstanding is the black chalk and charcoal head by Piero , once in the collection of John Skippe and spotted by Ms Ganz in a private collection where it had lain unattributed for the past thirty-five years . |
| 28 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 29 | By the time Piłsudski took over , the Polish economy was in a desperate plight and it was only with centralised planning introduced in 1936 under the guidance of Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski and the left wing of the Sanacja ( ‘ moral cleansing ’ regime ) that the Polish economy began to show signs of recovery . |
| 30 | If we use " complex " in a technical sense where it is opposed to " simplex " then the judgement is sound . |