Example sentences of "[adv] an [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps an increase in friction in the system is absorbing too much energy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And obviously an expert in business . |
| 5 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is normally only an issue in purchase advisory work . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 10 | The guarantee , however , generated only an action in personam , and admitted only judgment in terms of money . |
| 11 | An action in rem now lay against the trustee , where earlier law had allowed only an action in personam . |
| 12 | Thus an increase in money supply will lower interest rates . |
| 13 | Thus an improvement in performance is often related to the content of the job rather than to pay . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | The snippet in Rufus 's Monday morning newspaper measured just an inch in depth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All WYSIWYG here in Quattro Pro 4 — not an add-in in sight . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is not an exercise in self-indulgence . |
| 20 | There is no baby Jesus , no three wise men and not an angel in sight on the cards sent out by these famous names . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This exemption was not excluded by para 15(3) ( ba ) , Sch 6 since the ‘ property ’ was shares and not an interest in possession . |
| 24 | Even if a document such as a catalogue or price list is not an offer in law , there is no reason why it can not set out the terms of the offer , for instance by indicating that the party who issues it will only contract on those terms . |
| 25 | He was just beginning to worry about his fuel situation when he was called into the searchlight area , only to be fired on by A.A. He advised Control that he was coming in to land and requested that the flare path be lit , but was advised that there was still an alert in force and therefore no flare path could be employed . |
| 26 | Under Labour , the financial community would require a ‘ risk premium ’ to stay in sterling — possibly an increase in interest rates of more than two per cent . |
| 27 | These problems arise from the intrinsic contradiction in objectification by which the very form necessary for the subject 's development is always an exercise in self-alienation and is therefore a potential source of estrangement . |
| 28 | This was more an increase in efficiency than in output . |
| 29 | Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ? |
| 30 | Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ? |