Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a final year paper you just put a line through that and say , that does n't answer the question . |
| 2 | However , notice need not be given where the defendant does not appear , or where in a fixed date action he has failed to deliver a defence in time . |
| 3 | Excellent Adventure went belly-up in auditoriums but was reanimated in a healthy video afterlife which led to Bogus Journey , the some-would-say superior sequel achieving respectable box office figures . |
| 4 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 5 | From such humble beginnings in a remote Lincolnshire village he was , however , destined to make his impression on the world . |
| 6 | Throughout his control of the Elmswell estate Best also kept a memorandum book , in which he recorded in a haphazard fashion things he wished to remember : the wages agreed with servants ; debts owed and owing ; the number of sheep in the shepherd 's care . |
| 7 | For students who have already achieved a Standard Grade in Science at Grade 3 and who wish to progress in a specific science area it would be possible to construct a programme using an appropriate context with the modules : |
| 8 | Prompt at four o'clock , Dr Neil , complainingly dressed in his best suit at Matey 's request — ‘ Do I have to ? ’ he had said , rolling his eyes at McAllister — Matey in a bottle-green velvet gown which McAllister had not seen before , McAllister in her best sateen skirt , white blouse , and small lacy cap with streamers , were all sitting in the parlour when the doorbell rang . |
| 9 | HP agreed to take a small stake in Convex earlier this year under an agreement that includes Convex using the PA RISC family in a massively-parallel computer system it is designing , and also involves each company taking some of the other 's products on an OEM basis . |
| 10 | In a historic test case his parents Allan and Barbara , along with Airedale Regional Health Authority , are seeking a change in the law that would allow them to disconnect the feeding tube and let Tony die . |
| 11 | In a mechanical relaxation experiment we estimate stress and strain from observations of the loads and displacements on the specimen , making the assumptions of specimen homogeneity and a linear stress-strain relation . |
| 12 | In a similar vein pupils themselves can be asked to act out various parts in order to explore contemporary feelings . |
| 13 | Probably in California or New England in a middle income community which is already rich in high technology . |
| 14 | In a recent telephone conversation you told me that your department would include the War Memorial in Scorton under your grounds maintenance scheme and that this would include the cleaning of the actual memorial cross itself . |
| 15 | In a recent government report they say : |
| 16 | I 'm not taking you home in a stroppy mood Aaron we left home in a a stroppy mood |
| 17 | His CI5 bodyguard was waiting there , a cool-looking Welshman called Evans , his nose buried in a cheap hack novel which he hastily pushed into his inside pocket as Lin Foh and Cowley appeared . |
| 18 | The alarm was raised shortly afterwards by a milkman and officers in a passing police car who spotted the smoke and flames . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , as Russia 's economy burns , inflation now a hairsbreadth from the banana republic variety , its leaders fiddle with its future — locked in a political power struggle which would now seem to have taken the place of anything resembling coherent government . |
| 20 | We have considered the delay likely to occur in a personal injury action which goes to trial in the High Court . |
| 21 | Before a writ is issued in a personal injury action it must be endorsed with a standard form statement that the value of the action exceeds £50,000 ( see Practice Direction ( QBD ) ( Personal Injuries Action : Endorsement of Writ ) ( 1991 ) 21 June [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 642 ) . |
| 22 | What was needed in these circumstances was an updated union in the form of a ‘ real union of sovereign states ’ , enshrined in a new union treaty which would replace the treaty of 1922 on which the USSR had originally been founded . |
| 23 | Such studies are of patients in a tertiary care setting who are unlikely to be representative of all persons experiencing IBS symptoms . |
| 24 | Police believe the two men had been in the area for some time possibly in a blue transit van which had ladders on its roof . |
| 25 | For me that meant wrapping it in a blue launderette bag which served as a case . |
| 26 | At Lien College school leavers were participating in a rural skills course which included carpentry , forestry , metal work , building skills and fish farming as well as agriculture . |
| 27 | These also help to tie the whole arrangement together , but in a small herb garden it is too restrictive of plant species , and one can still get a good result if individual beds are planted with different collections . |
| 28 | In the USA , Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Rochester University are following an alternative approach called ‘ inertial fusion ’ where the deuterium and tritium fuel is in a small glass bubble which is momentarily blasted by powerful lasers , but here too practical economic fusion seems to be years in the future , and some 700 million dollars may be needed to upgrade the facility and keep the research moving forward . |
| 29 | In a small employment agency there may only be one interviewer and you will put yourself at a disadvantage if you make a bad start . |
| 30 | Further east , in the Luberon , in a small family restaurant I recently had a dozen delicious snails a la . |