Example sentences of "[noun] and in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the novel he stays polarized , but without bulk and in a tragic sense without force ; he goes through the motions ( ‘ the habits of a decent man ’ and so forth ) while his great-sinner infamies are unloaded upon a past which he can not even renounce . |
| 2 | The problem was Ron Dennis and in a way , this clash between the two men is a microcosm of life in FI and deserves a brief aside . |
| 3 | At the same time I knew that my marriage had been a facade and in a way , by leaving , I felt I was doing the only honourable thing . |
| 4 | She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system . |
| 5 | Even the most purely agricultural villages had a handful of craftsmen and in a few parishes , notably Spratton , Moulton and Hardingstone , between 40 and 60 per cent of those liable for duty were employed in non-agricultural pursuits for the major part of their time . |
| 6 | but that surprised the man in the queue and yet interestingly I think that and she said I was right in my assumption that that is part of the partnership philosophy of John Lewis that they work in partnership with their staff and in partnership with the community and they make their profit which is generated to start through the community which they sell to and therefore they quietly give back without wanting to play their own trumpets and in a sense I think that 's how it should be . |
| 7 | Her fingers stroked my balls and her lips slid on my penis and in a few minutes , free to call her what I wished , I pulled her down and mounted her . |
| 8 | Motioning for Seb to come to her , she stood in the doorway and in a low voice , said , ‘ There 's someone downstairs to see Anna . |
| 9 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 10 | A tall man dressed in the full scarlet traditional uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted police strode into the dining car and in a conversation-stopping voice said he had some serious information for us . |
| 11 | Used for pelmets and in a finer quality for curtain headings . |
| 12 | One solution is to have long bridles , so reducing the effect and in a way de-sensitising the bridle changes . |
| 13 | I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise . |
| 14 | VI , of the widely-ratified Non-Proliferation Treaty , and is embodied in general terms as well in the Charter of the United Nations and in a variety of formal resolutions adopted over the years by the General Assembly ; and |
| 15 | The initial allocation of system design responsibility was negotiated between the four aircraft companies , Deutsch Aerospace , British Aerospace , Carsa and Allenia and against the background of an M O U which said we must share the technology on this project between the four nations and in a particular way which ensures that each of the nations has got access to all the high technology aspects of the project er therefore the individual companies identified those areas of the project , were they felt they either could lead best or wish to lead and for the United Kingdom British Aerospace erm identified the avionics system integration as the major complex task that they would take responsibility for . |
| 16 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 17 | Five doctors said that his condition was now so serious that he would not last the night : he was rushed to hospital , paralysed on his left side and in a deep coma . |
| 18 | In 1938 and 1939 he appeared under Sir Thomas Beecham [ q.v. ] at Covent Garden in his three greatest Mozartian roles and in a German-language Bartered Bride ; and after the war he insisted on taking part there with his old colleagues , the visiting Vienna State Opera , as Don Ottavio in a Don Giovanni at Covent Garden which was to be his final stage appearance , in September 1947 . |
| 19 | The only way now open to the English , in these years deeply involved in war against the Scots and in a domestic situation turning more and more violent , was retaliation . |
| 20 | She thrust out her jaw , pursed her lips and in a deep voice said , ‘ Come on old girl , up the golden stairs ; let's hit the hay . ’ |
| 21 | And many an insect was saved , perhaps from the very same predator , by an uncannily close resemblance to a twig , on occasions when the predator happened to be seeing it at relatively close range and in a good light . |
| 22 | A blue cloth bag contained roots of Yellow-Root ( see below ) with several kinds of Orchis and in a white bag were various Martagons . |
| 23 | Both these concerns were in the Tilling Group of Companies and in a splitting up of the area and districts with certain other companies , the United Counties took over most of the local services , with the Eastern National taking a minor role . |
| 24 | If true , these matters are of concern to the Bank as supervisor of the [ defendants ] and raise questions as to the continued fulfilment of the minimum criteria for authorisation set out in Schedule 3 to the Banking Act 1987 , which includes inter alia the requirement that directors , controllers and managers of authorised institutions shall be fit and proper to hold their positions and that the business of the institution will be carried on with integrity and skill and in a prudent manner . |
| 25 | Hosts : Horses and donkeys Site : Caecum and colon Species : For many years there has been a great deal of confusion in the classification of this group of parasites and in a recent revision it has been proposed that the genus Trichonema be discarded and replaced by four genera , namely Cyathostomum , Cylicocyclus , Cylicodontophorus and Cylicostephanus , these being collectively referred to as cyathostomes . |
| 26 | He was broken with compassion as he watched her crashing like a falling star , pulled by gravity and centripetal forces towards the consummation of the sun and in a moment of weakness he relaxed his will . |
| 27 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 28 | A letter from G. Espin to Councillor Fraser re the waste of public money in erecting a new wire fence on the footpath between Baberton Mains Estate and Juniper Green and in a few days ripping it out and replacing it with a chestnut type wooden fence . |
| 29 | The following sentences are given in spelling and in a ‘ slow , careful ’ phonemic transcription . |
| 30 | It is tea and scones — and where else can you get a good cup of tea or a decent scone , or real beer , as the hero of one of C. S. Lewis 's space-fictions reflects as he returns to earth and finds himself — miraculously and blissfully — in England and in a country village . |