Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher 's transformation may have more to do with her political circumstances — i.e , isolation in a predominantly pro-European Cabinet — than with television . |
| 2 | Hence the logic of discussing the two places as part of a ‘ city ’ , even if the effect of planning policies and spatial reorganization in a more general sense has been to complicate the definition of just what constitutes the ‘ city ’ of Tyneside . |
| 3 | Rodrigo de Triano 's defeat was the only disappointment in an otherwise memorable day for owner Robert Sangster , who landed an 899–1 hat-trick in the last three races with Lost Reputation , River Defences — his Derby contender — and well-fancied Ecliptic , backed from 33–1 in the morning to 9–1 . |
| 4 | Mick , the National Officer has been er , the link between these organizations and I hope that the er , Professional erm , Boxers ' Association will give some credit to the G M B in erm , establishing themselves and we hope , as an organization , that in the future that they can be successful and we can be sure they will be because they 've not only got the likes of Barry but they 've got many other , prominent er , boxers who will , I 'm sure , establish erm , the Association in a very er , positive fashion . |
| 5 | And there is the lane dropping down to the stone bridge that was rebuilt in 1948 , but unquestionably on the site of the stone bridge which is mentioned as a landmark in an even earlier charter . |
| 6 | On the one hand variceal haemorrhage may be the final episode in a progressively deteriorating clinical disease state ; alternatively , it may be a single potentially life threatening episode in a patient who can otherise expect several further years of good quality life . |
| 7 | Golding , however , portrays the episode in a completely different way . |
| 8 | The Food Magazine has achieved a great deal in a very short time , and the national press regards it as a reliable source of information . |
| 9 | ‘ Graphic designers are often asked to do a great deal in a comparatively short space of time , ’ acknowledges Peter Brigg , ‘ but that 's because there 's often no substitute for the printed document . |
| 10 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 11 | Sometimes , as in south-east Somerset , Dunsmore in Warwickshire , Ready Token in Gloucestershire , and Rymer , Breckland , in Norfolk , they come together at some common feature , such as an upland pond in a generally waterless area , an area of upland waste , or a piece of shared woodland . |
| 12 | The simple lines of modern architecture break up space and light in a very mechanical way , and not with the variety I seek in my paintings . |
| 13 | The simple lines of modern architecture break up space and light in a very mechanical way , and not with the variety I seek in my paintings . |
| 14 | I would describe our time in Siret as being able to see just a few rays of light in a very dark week . |
| 15 | It provided a much needed patch of light in an otherwise sombre room lit only by two silk-shaded sidelamps . |
| 16 | Thus , it has been suggested that the attempts to re-organise football in a more businesslike manner , to make it more professional , have alienated young working-class fans from their football clubs . |
| 17 | The last five years have seen heavy investment in a fully integrated computer system that allows it to deal with a customer 's total needs in one phone call — ordering , cancelling and general enquiries . |
| 18 | It is a worthwhile investment in a very good cause . |
| 19 | Roosevelt , however , was president in a relatively uncomplicated era and since his time government has become vastly more complex and expansive with the problems of bureaucratic control increasing by quantum leaps . |
| 20 | While planning future political developments on a national level , the Prince also applied himself to being President in a more symbolic sense . |
| 21 | What happens in many of the significant films that emerge after the war is that the claims of the community and the individual are set against each other , bringing together Ealing realism and Gainsborough melodrama in a tremendously fruitful , if brief and explosive , relationship . |
| 22 | As she entered the lounge where Susan was sitting , playing a César Franck prelude in an oddly preoccupied way , she found herself wishing that the senior partner of Factota Limited were a little less amenable . |
| 23 | Further deletions which leave less than 90bp of the promoter result in a very low level of expression , suggesting the presence of a basic promoter element between -90 and -70 which is required for expression in this heterologous cell type . |
| 24 | The main concern now is whether it can generate enough advertising revenue in a more competitive market to stave off programming and scheduling compromises to make it more popular and to build its audience . |
| 25 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 26 | Biologists have studied the nutrient-rich environment created from the wood and iron in the shipwreck in an otherwise barren area by using hundreds of hours of tape from Nemo 's cameras . |
| 27 | There was no real enthusiasm and we launched in the training programme in a rather unstructured way . |
| 28 | As you will see , I am attempting to explain Greek tragedy in a completely novel way , in that for the time being I disregard all philological approaches to the question and keep only the aesthetic problem in view . |
| 29 | You 'd bore him out of his mind in a very short time . ’ |
| 30 | A newly-invented spring has been adopted , one peculiarity attached to it being the insertion of a thin hoop of steel within a leathern belt , which has the effect of increasing the power of tension in a very remarkable degree , and rendering the motion of the carriage perfectly easy . |