Example sentences of "[det] [noun] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ The value of an air ambulance service remains uncertain , compared with the use of that money in a different way . |
| 2 | Raoult 's law is a useful starting point and defines an ideal solution as one in which the activity of each component in a mixture a i is equal to its mole fraction x i . |
| 3 | if you see what I mean , right I 'll re-draw all that bit in a minute this is all gon na be sort of black . |
| 4 | Nothing to do with me : in fact , I spent six hours fighting that decision in a totally futile meeting with Topaz and three top-level gorillas from Resource Deployment with cottonwool in their ears and Closed For Lunch signs on their brains . ’ |
| 5 | This particular passage is Bukharin at his sophistical worst , since he rails against the ‘ freedom to labour ’ in a manner that dodges the real freedom that workers can obtain by forming trade unions ; this was not a negation of the ‘ freedom to labour ’ , but rather a redefinition of that freedom in a positive manner . |
| 6 | And when I woke up , although it was still dark outside , I wrapped up some spare clothes in a parcel , and put a little money in a purse . |
| 7 | If I had a little money in a rich man 's world . |
| 8 | The placing of each housewife in a satisfaction category was done by the interviewer-researcher , on the basis of the overall interview response ; further details for the methodologically curious are given in Appendix I. |
| 9 | The molecule can now be placed on the lattice , segment by segment , bearing in mind the restrictions imposed , viz. the connectivity of the segments , which requires the placing of each segment in a cell adjoining the preceding one . |
| 10 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 11 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 12 | So to lighten our load and ensure that your answer is passed on quickly would you please put each response in a separate envelope with the name of the reader it is addressed to on the front . |
| 13 | The processing stages for each reading of each sentence in a text were as follows . |
| 14 | ‘ You would n't know to look at me now , ’ she 'd say , ‘ but I could hold them spellbound , the things I could do on that bike in a crash helmet and a pair of tights and a stars and stripes swimsuit . ’ |
| 15 | The S.S.O. was crossing Casualty yard when I was going on duty that afternoon in a flaming temper . |
| 16 | Stockbrokers say there is little interest in Pilkington shares and today 's figures will lead to little change in a ‘ continuing sell ’ attitude towards shares . |
| 17 | Systematic mutation of each base in a double met box operator also yields consistent results ( T. McNally , personal communication ) . |
| 18 | The Wolfenden Committee 's ( 1978 ) survey of voluntary work in the social service field showed that 14 per cent of the national sample reported undertaking some work of that kind in a twelve-month period . |
| 19 | Place each mackerel in a parcel of foil with the orange juice , ginger and black pepper . |
| 20 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 21 | Annual intake is fixed by the Scottish Education Department at approximately forty students but applications outnumber that quota in a ratio of something like 12 to 1 . |
| 22 | He points out that when John uses that term in a negative sense it is with ‘ specific reference not to the whole of culture , but to a particular use of that culture by the forces of evil . ’ |
| 23 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 24 | What might be called ‘ external ’ interpretation or construction was the subject of Section 2 : jurists resort to construction , when there is evidently an intention on the part of a testator to achieve some object by means of some legal institution , in order to embody that intention in a legal framework . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most technically outstanding examples of this are Milhaud 's string quartets Nos. 8 and 9 , which can be played separately or together as an octet , with each instrument in a different key . |
| 26 | If the scattering intensity for each concentration in a dilution series is measured over an angular range 35° to 145° , the data can be plotted as against , where k′ is an arbitrary constant chosen to provide a convenient spread of the data in the grid-like graph which is obtained . |
| 27 | As with most classifications of natural phenomena the exact forms of which are governed by the interactions of continuously variable sets of conditions , the classification can be as complex as one likes and the only non-controversial classification is that which puts each reef in a class of its own . |
| 28 | Stir the batter , then make at least eight pancakes in a small , non-stick frying pan , cooking each side in a small amount of oil or fat until golden . |
| 29 | Dore ( 1973 ) used this framework in a comparison of the contrasting employment systems in British and Japanese industry ; and Kobrin ( 1976 ) empirically tested the convergence thesis itself using cross-national research for more than 90 countries and found some support for it . |
| 30 | This change in a plant can be enhanced by a climber twining through it . |