Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In due course a hotel in Suceava had reported that two English tourists had failed to return . |
| 2 | Such exchange might take place by using money , by bartering for other goods , or as gifts , but in each case a change in ownership of the goods takes place . |
| 3 | In that case a clause in an agreement between a company and its manager stated that he should receive a fixed salary , and , as soon as the profits for the year had been ascertained and certified by the company 's auditors , a percentage of " the net profits ( if any ) of the company for the whole year " . |
| 4 | In that case a shortfall in one instalment will normally only justify a rejection of that one instalment . |
| 5 | as if to increase my terror , there came at that instant a pause in the electric war overhead . |
| 6 | round it and like Dave said it would 've cost him , sort of , seven or eight pound a day in petrol |
| 7 | The solar wind is another example of a plasma ( section 2.2.2 ) in this case a plasma in motion . |
| 8 | At some point a man in a neat suit materialized . |
| 9 | I have always shared with my hon. Friend a belief in the importance of manufacturing industry , particularly the motor car industry . |
| 10 | This season a change in the points rule means the Robins can strengthen their side . |
| 11 | Is not his rejection of the social charter a kick in the teeth to the best employers and a massive boost to sweatshop , anti-union employers in Britain ? |
| 12 | In this way a ration in the goods market spills over into the labour market by constraining the demand for labour . |
| 13 | There is up and down this country a crisis in the regions that is exacerbated by the British Government over additionality . |
| 14 | About this time a change in the Department of Trade regulations regarding the qualifications of ships ' officers was being introduced . |
| 15 | At one o'clock in the afternoon , eight hours after the first shots had been fired south of Charleroi , Sharpe met more cavalrymen ; this time a patrol in red-faced dark blue coats who thundered eagerly across a pasture to surround Sharpe and his two horses . |
| 16 | It is this potential for mobilizing worker commitment to change which makes the 1985 agreement a land-mark in Ford 's industrial relations and work organization . |
| 17 | Although this characteristic is to some extent a handicap in that they can not be used , for instance , with boiling water , there are very great manufacturing advantages since the stuff can be squirted out hot in the form of tubes and sections or else into an elaborately shaped mould where it can be hardened almost instantaneously by rapid chilling . |
| 18 | This policy statement made for the first time in this context a distinction in the Secretary of State 's approach to mandatory life sentences on the one hand and discretionary life sentences on the other . |
| 19 | She got drunk at a party at work and gave some guy a blowjob in the storeroom . |
| 20 | There is another rule , equally old and equally well-established — that you can not make a mere witness a party in order to get discovery from him ’ . |
| 21 | Leading from a Neil Vasey goal at the break , Aycliffe found Usworth always dangerous until in a five-minute spell midway through the second period a mix-up in the home defence allowed Stuart Howson in to score with Kevin Dinning notching their third shortly afterwards . |
| 22 | That keeper of the flame , Sir Ralph Furse , to his dying day a believer in the administrative genius of his race , was advocating by 1942 that the territories of the coloured colonial empire be allowed ‘ to grow up into nations in free association with ourselves ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Colin Kirkland , its technical director , described as absolute nonsense a report in New Civil Engineer magazine that research into existing subsea tunnels shows that ‘ Channel tunnel wall sections as used on the French side will not be able to resist corrosion for their 120-year design life . ’ |
| 24 | At that moment a man in an old black coat rushed in . |
| 25 | In the 1921 election a leaflet in support of the candidature of Kerrison argued that the Labour Party had been responsible for implementing the 1918 Act , providing home helps for poor mothers and supplying free milk in necessitous cases . |
| 26 | MY SON is a teacher and I 've seen how hard he has worked to make the new national curriculum a success in his classroom . |
| 27 | For example a curriculum leader in a small primary school leads a small group to scrutinise a selection of pupils ' work from different year groups to examine progression and continuity and their relation to the National Curriculum a department in a secondary school reviews its curricular provision ; assesses the implications of the National Curriculum for that subject ; analyses policies and practice on pupil assessment ; analyses examination/test results ; reviews pupils ' written work to check on progression and continuity a team considers relations with parents and the wider community the head , a deputy or a senior teacher leads a working party on topics such as cross-curricular issues , curriculum provision as a whole , pupil attendance , school documentation the staff development or INSET co-ordinator leads a working party to review staff development , INSET provision and dissemination , teacher appraisal , care of probationer teachers ( DES 1989e:8 ) . |
| 28 | We have discussed as Duncan knows at the National Committee a strategy in order that we can address key issues and get the resources down to where they actually are needed and increasingly that is gon na be at local level . |
| 29 | After a brief interval a reply in a lower key by a similarly religious bird came from what appeared to be a hummock of ivy on a small promontory which jutted out at the further end of the mere . |
| 30 | Although the military may try to give each large corporation a turn in contracting , these two corporations are in competition and their corporate interests are not always the same . |