Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be possible to take a statement from the driver of such a vehicle in cases of difficulty . |
| 2 | Peters admits that such a sea-change in attitudes is ‘ scary tough ’ but we need to ask what the alternatives really are . |
| 3 | This must be the watchword of the Western democracies who have so painfully and yet so necessarily dismantled Saddam Hussein 's war machine , at such a cost in lives and scarce resources . |
| 4 | If that turned out to be possible , it might suggest there is access from a higher level to quite remote lower-level translations , unless one was prepared to redescribe such a phenomenon in terms of our ( levels of programming language ) metaphor as ‘ This patient has found out how to access a highest level command GROW A NEW NERVE TO YOUR LEFT FOOT though without , of course , having any access to the translation of that command in terms of the nerve cell processes themselves . ’ |
| 5 | Such a decline in forecasts of demand inevitably has a devastating impact on the need for new generating capacity . |
| 6 | Now the Belfast newspaper , the Irish News , argues for the retention of such a claim in articles 2 and 3 , while the Dublin Supreme Court described the matter as a ’ constitutional imperative ’ . |
| 7 | Such a difference in conceptions of gender and gender roles has strong implications for the event of peace or friction in the play of daily life , and can not be too much emphasized . |
| 8 | A small chorus has applauded such a shift in resources , arguing that prohibition of drugs will always fail so long as Americans remain so determined to get hold of them . |
| 9 | Avignon still has remains of such a town in buildings like the fortress Palace of the Popes ( 1316–70 ) , but the two most complete towns are Carcassonne and Aigues Mortes . |
| 10 | They furiously denounced a so-called ‘ Economist ’ heresy among Social Democrats for fostering such a switch in priorities and insisted on the primacy of the political task . |
| 11 | We conducted such a study in patients with active duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 12 | NEC Corp is now such a star in workstations in the Japanese market that Sanyo Electric Corp , which had developed its own Icon workstations around the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R-series RISC , has decided instead to work with NEC on MIPS-based workstations and buy the resulting products in OEM , the Nikkei Industrial Daily reports . |
| 13 | This wastes space , but the user will not be able to avoid such a shortcoming in manufacturers ' software by any other technique . |
| 14 | With such an indictment and such a challenge in terms of the variety of disciplinary insights needed , the reader may well wonder at this stage whether one brief chapter can even begin to make any impact on this question . |
| 15 | The gains recorded by the top 10 per cent of households amounted to 40 a week , mostly in lower taxes , while the middle income groups were little affected and the poorer ones lost over 10 a week in benefits and higher VAT . |
| 16 | It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere . |
| 17 | ‘ Man , Ranald , we 've not had as good a season in years ! |
| 18 | Lewine Mair reflects back on the Solheim Cup and finds that there is n't as great a divide in women 's golf as the matches led us to believe . |
| 19 | Since total taxes on financial services bring in over SFr9 billion a year in revenues , politicians are reluctant to vote for change . |
| 20 | In the end Japan avoided $500 million a year in duties without making a single concession of its own . |
| 21 | The regional council gives £30 million a year in subsidies to ScotRail and is providing £150 million in capital for service improvements . |
| 22 | A report by the House of Commons Select Committee on the Environment has estimated that indoor air pollution and sick building syndrome cost the British economy at least £650 million a year in terms of the effects on thousands of people suffering chronic ailments caused by increased allergies , asthma and other conditions . |