Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utilising existing artwork — such as that given in a project — simply involves tracing the copper track layout onto a film , using the methods described last month . |
| 2 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 3 | It completely overcomes the problem of matching your tension to that given in a pattern . |
| 4 | It is possible to see in a catalogue of this sort the origins of the very exact nomenclature found in many of Mary Leapor 's landscape descriptions ( see chapter three below ) . |
| 5 | By introducing a satellite RNA Ribonucleic Acid ( closely related to DNA ) , it has been possible to establish in a tobacco plant a heritable agent capable of preventing the development of the mosaic virus as it enters the cell . |
| 6 | A converse implication of the " dress of thought " view is that it is possible to write in a style which is the nadir of plainness and neutrality . |
| 7 | It would be awful to work in a place where everyone was miserable . |
| 8 | Rawlings worked out a procedure for network meetings similar to that used in a child abuse case conference . |
| 9 | Another possibility is that the timescale represents recurrence in a physical limit-cycle , for example unstable flaring in a pair-plasma . |
| 10 | The bench table is fitted with a very useful horizontal angleguide which can be locked into any position in front of the disc , or it can be locked at the desired angle while being free to slide in a slot parallel with the disc face . |
| 11 | All this matters in a system with overlapping powers , with a tendency to divide Manhattan and its liberal politicians and the mayor from the concerns of the outer boroughs . |
| 12 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 13 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 14 | It 's much easier to hide in a church hall ! |
| 15 | This occurred in a number of ways , some of which overlap . |
| 16 | ‘ In a way it would be interesting to work in a country where you could n't speak the language so you could communicate with your eye and your camera , not your tongue . |
| 17 | Cavazos , the first Hispanic-American to serve in a US Cabinet , had been nominated in August 1988 by Bush 's predecessor , Ronald Reagan . |
| 18 | It hardly matters that this came in a setting of answers that were outlining Smith 's much-changed thinking . |
| 19 | The first overt expression of this came in a House of Commons speech on 16 February , replying to a Labour amendment in the debate on the Address . |
| 20 | We might speculate that those with dementia would be less willing to participate in a research project than the mentally fit . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you ever seen 300 scored in a Test ? ’ asked the Butcher 's Assistant . |
| 22 | The level of output constrained by the NTB is Q1 , and this results in a price of P1 . |
| 23 | This results in a shortening of the average duration of time in which families live as a nuclear group and an increase in the phase of the life cycle in which the couple live alone post-child rearing — the empty nest phase . |
| 24 | The result is that a distribution of relaxation times is to be expected for a given process and this results in a broadening of the dielectric loss peak . |
| 25 | If this results in a tie , an arbitrary choice may be made . |
| 26 | This results in a blurring of the distinction between the real and the fictional enunciations , since the implied speaking persona is seen as representing the author himself , and the reader 's situation is potentially included within the scope of the deictics in the poem . |
| 27 | This results in a synthesis through analysis of the various inputs of information as these become prominent in the visual field . |
| 28 | This results in a tendency for rural constituencies to have smaller electorates than urban constituencies . |
| 29 | This results in a ball of cells , which then proceeds to burrow into the wall of the uterus . |
| 30 | Right , this results in a rise |