Example sentences of "[adv] an [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digital Equipment Corp is very much an also-ran in X-terminals with its VXT 2000 line , but the firm says it wants to become the dominant player in the market and to that end is following leader Network Computing Devices Inc in going after OEM business — minimum 3,000 units . |
| 2 | He got dealers to track down an enthusiast in Essex who had got in ahead of him , and made the supergenerous offer for the supercar . |
| 3 | To preempt the danger of a revolutionary regime dominating the nearby Musandam peninsula , the Shah in 1973 sent a contingent to help the Sultan of Oman put down an insurrection in Dhofar province prompted by its communist neighbour , South Yemen . |
| 4 | Shilton , winner of a record 125 caps and a star of three World Cup campaigns , received the red card for slicing down an opponent in front of just 4,194 fans at humble Hull . |
| 5 | Perhaps an increase in friction in the system is absorbing too much energy . |
| 6 | Erm and accepting that would mean er obviously an increase in rent and perhaps changes in that lease er in order that he would be able to er to invest that money . |
| 7 | And obviously an expert in business . |
| 8 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 9 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 10 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |
| 11 | We would n't expect the County Council to be proceeding to approval of the plan , but merely an approval in principle or an approval of the concept . |
| 12 | This is normally only an issue in purchase advisory work . |
| 13 | It is as if teaching quality is only an issue in subjects like mathematics and science . |
| 14 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 15 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 16 | The guarantee , however , generated only an action in personam , and admitted only judgment in terms of money . |
| 17 | An action in rem now lay against the trustee , where earlier law had allowed only an action in personam . |
| 18 | Thus an increase in money supply will lower interest rates . |
| 19 | Thus an increase in M will leave V unaffected , and there will be a corresponding rise in MV. In other words , a change in money supply ( M ) brings a corresponding change in expenditure ( MV ) : |
| 20 | Thus an improvement in performance is often related to the content of the job rather than to pay . |
| 21 | Editor , — There is scarcely an assertion in Richard Smith 's editorial about the General Medical Council ( GMC ) with which I would not take issue . |
| 22 | It 's not just an event in history two thousand years ago , something that happened way back i in a back water of the Roman empire , that 's not the really important issue for you and for me today it 's , the important thing is that you and I have to stand in that same place that Pilate stood and we have to make that same decision , what will I do then with Jesus that is called the Christ ? |
| 23 | The snippet in Rufus 's Monday morning newspaper measured just an inch in depth . |
| 24 | Despite all the barriers and disadvantages encountered in the movement to a market economy , there is already an infrastructure in place for the future development of a music industry . |
| 25 | All WYSIWYG here in Quattro Pro 4 — not an add-in in sight . |
| 26 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |
| 27 | This is not an exercise in self-indulgence . |
| 28 | There is no baby Jesus , no three wise men and not an angel in sight on the cards sent out by these famous names . |
| 29 | Th they 're our largest exporter er there 's inter-company sales which would gen can generate quite useful profits since they get sold on both of er Penguin companies er and Longman of course has a high content of erm er of er non-U K sales and Addison Wesley also er I mean Camco was the most international , but it 's erm not er it 's not an exporter in sterling denominated terms . |
| 30 | The fact that some sufferers die of their addictive disease regardless of their awareness of the Anonymous Fellowships is not an argument in favour of the use of other methods of treatment which were manifestly of no help to those who did recover and which can be observed to be of no help to those who still suffer . |