Example sentences of "[noun] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A down-stuffed duvet in a printed-cotton cover lay over them . |
| 2 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924 – 5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 3 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924 – 5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 4 | In her acceptance she broke the code of propriety , went beyond the established manners in a light encounter . |
| 5 | We had an altercation that soon resolved itself with me lying face-down in a damp bed of cardboard boxes at the loot of a hidden staircase . |
| 6 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 7 | Three freemen : Three long-serving Middlesbrough councillors have been made freemen of the borough in a special ceremony at the town hall . |
| 8 | Putting it bluntly , many Protestants fear that they will be unable to continue to practise and promote their religion in a united Ireland . |
| 9 | It raged well before Israel acquired Judaea , Samaria , Gaza and the Golan in a defensive war . " |
| 10 | Neither side is likely to take any unnecessary risks in a key game for both teams , so a draw is likely . |
| 11 | I see now that these were just the first skirmishes in a never-ending guerrilla war . |
| 12 | These were early skirmishes in a long-running conflict . |
| 13 | From their point of view living in physical isolation in a rural district is by no means a problem , not only because of the high level of local car ownership , but because they , unlike the planners , do not confuse the idea of social cohesion with the notion of geographical proximity . |
| 14 | An Agatha Christie novel and Kafka 's The Trial ( isolation in a dehumanized world — great ) . |
| 15 | Although a great many Corydoras species will spawn in situ , the chances of hatching and raising fry are always enhanced if the breeding pair are spawned in isolation in a specially-established aquarium . |
| 16 | He points out that a complex whole which contains principal and secondary contradictions will also contain relations of domination and subordination ( since the factors forming the principal contradiction will dominate those forming the subordinate contradiction ) , and argues that the presence of these characteristics in a complex whole is not merely a contingent matter , but a necessary one . |
| 17 | While goldfish were flushed down the lavatory , she normally placed her other dead pets in a cardboard shoe box , dug a hole beneath the spreading cedar tree on the lawn and laid them to rest . |
| 18 | In particular , the question of whether the largest groups , known as keiretsu , are merely pre-war zaibatsu in a different guise . |
| 19 | Eleventh-century additions in English to blank leaves in the York Gospels include surveys of three of the archbishopric 's estates , an inventory of church treasures at Sherburn-in-Elmet , and a list of sureties in a legal case involving one Ælfric , while a Durham copy of Bede 's Lives of St Cuthbert received an inventory of church possessions including a kettle and sixteen ornamented horns . |
| 20 | ‘ Out of the stuff I 've heard , ‘ This Is Not A Song ’ by The Frank & Walters is one of the most moving songs in a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ People are seizing us because we 're able to write good songs in a stylistic vein that 's quite different to the way songs have been written recently in contemporary music . |
| 22 | This was The Who touching down after the conceptual splurge of ‘ Tommy ’ , knocking out faves like ‘ Magic Bus ’ and re-reading touchstone '50s songs in a deranged but affectionate way . |
| 23 | Since the charter mark is designed to improve public services , does my hon. Friend agree that the attack launched today on the citizens charter by the National and Local Government Officers Association in a lavish newspaper advertising campaign is typical of that union 's contempt for the consumer and lack of interest in improving public services ? |
| 24 | The calls came as the British Medical Association in a new report stepped up its demands for a total ban on boxing . |
| 25 | Albrink demonstrated a similar association in a subsequent study , with 82 per cent of diabetics greater than 50 years of age with clinically apparent atherosclerosis having triglyceride levels greater than 1.7 mmol/l compared to 50 per cent of those without atherosclerosis ( Albrink , 1974 ) . |
| 26 | Pupils benefit from the opportunity to shape and reformulate their thinking in a helpful , non-threatening atmosphere , where experiments in language are not only acceptable , but encouraged . |
| 27 | If the former administrator had gone mad , then the passion that possessed him had more to do with the re-establishment of the New Thinking in a new place , rather than any desire for vengeance . |
| 28 | He looked like the petrol-soaked wreck of a swan come to grief in a polluted river . |
| 29 | Place the celery , carrots , leeks , onions , peppercorns , bouquet garni and chicken stock in a large pan and simmer for 5 minutes . |
| 30 | The Chancellor is expected to modify the Government 's policy of buying in enough long-dated gilt-edged stock in a single fiscal year to offset the financial drain on the economy created by the budget surplus and foreign exchange intervention to support the pound — the so-called full funding rule . |