Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting the question this way makes clear that a justification in terms of wealth relies on a trade-off : corporate decision-making power should be accepted as the price of efficient wealth creation . |
| 2 | Despite Anthony Fauci 's assertion that ‘ the virus is the major factor in HIV disease , ’ it was clear that a shift in emphasis is taking place from direct antiretroviral strategies to immune-directed therapies . |
| 3 | After this double success hope must have been high that a solution in the case of the general quintic would soon be forthcoming . |
| 4 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 5 | Caledor gave this great honour to the Reaver Knights for their loyalty and to this day , over five thousand years later , the Reaver Knights still rigorously patrol Ulthuan and a place in their ranks is much sought after . |
| 6 | Last season there were also two one-cap players at Sussex , by P.W.G. Parker has now moved to Durham ( who incidentally now regularly field a Smith , a Brown and a Jones in the same side : truly a classless county ) . |
| 7 | A 170mm unit is used in the 415 and a 200mm in the 425 . |
| 8 | Abdul Shahid , a Bengali-speaking five year old and a beginner in English , wanted to show off his three sand pies lined up in order of size . |
| 9 | The report by the National Association of Estate Agents follows the annual review by the Halifax Building Society , which predicts a 15 per cent increase in sales in 1993 and a rise in prices during the second half of the year . |
| 10 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 11 | Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) . |
| 12 | The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 . |
| 13 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
| 14 | Always an example of devotion to duty , and as unflinching as a hero in a book . |
| 15 | Conversation at table is as superfluous as a sermon in church ; all is still but for the ping of the latest microwave masterpiece . |
| 16 | ‘ Another told me he had a dream , there was a fountain and it had a name , clear as a bell in his dream : Jouvence . |
| 17 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 18 | ‘ Just hanging there from one of the beams , swaying as free as a leaf in the wind . |
| 19 | The stringent criteria for selecting our patients meant that we had few patients and it is possible that a difference in acid secretion between the patients with idiopathic DU and H pylori positive patients with DU could become apparent with greater numbers . |
| 20 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 21 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 22 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 23 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 24 | It is arguable that a decline in the traditional role of the military nobility in war was presaged by the ever-greater use made of artillery , that most ‘ un-noble ’ and indiscriminate causer of death , which claimed among its victims several great noblemen , among them the Bastard of Bourbon , killed at Soisson in 1414 ; Thomas , earl of Salisbury ( ‘ a worthi werrioure amonge all Cristen men … slayne at the sege of Orliaunce with a Gonne ’ , as the author of the Brut reported the event ) ; John Talbot , earl of Shrewsbury , killed at Castillon in July 1453 ; and Jacques de Lalaing , ‘ le bon chevalier ’ , killed in the very same month at the siege of Poeke , near Ghent . |
| 25 | It is arguable that this is a practical necessity given limited time and resources , but it is also arguable that a discontinuity in teaching methods and learning experiences is likely to result . |
| 26 | It was reported on May 7 that a meeting in Paris of the Aid to Pakistan Consortium , made up of 14 Western countries and the World Bank , had approved aid totalling US$2,300 million . |
| 27 | However , in Smith v South Wales Switchgear Ltd [ 1978 ] 1 WLR 165 the House of Lords held that a clause in a contract for services requiring the contractor to indemnify the employer against " any loss , claim or proceedings whatsoever arising out of or in the course of the execution of the order " did not apply to require an indemnity in respect of injuries caused by the employer 's negligence . |
| 28 | The House of Lords held that a provision in the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 that required track owners to provide available space for bookmakers on the track , was passed for the benefit of the race-going public rather than bookmakers ( Cutler v Wandsworth Stadium [ 1949 ] AC 398 ) . |
| 29 | Considering the clean wake and the almost dinghy-like responsiveness of the yacht , we were convinced that a reach in a slightly stiffer breeze would have seen her sliding into an easy surf . |
| 30 | The price has doubled since Iraq invaded Kuwait and now it 's going up fast though with traders convinced that a war in the Gulf is inevitable . |