Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will grow into a shrubby bush 3′–4′ tall and looks equally beautiful grown alone or companionably in a border where it will flower away to your heart 's content . |
| 2 | Not being paid by anybody else , and the housewife , you know , that are not able to leave home , or eventually in a hospital . |
| 3 | So , when acting in such a case , add to your additional enquiries made of the local authority , or better in a letter , some such enquiry as this : Is the Authority aware of any infilling or any geological stratum which might result in the instability of the foundations of any building erected on the site for which planning consent has been granted ? |
| 4 | At the beginning of the New Year — or perhaps in a couple of months time at the beginning of the new financial year — there is often a need to set up a spreadsheet that shows a time series . |
| 5 | " When they were out of a ship they were more or less in a state of intoxication , during which time they were in the society of the very lowest description that could be found . |
| 6 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 7 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 8 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 9 | But a week or so in a holiday cottage is n't the same as becoming a permanent resident . |
| 10 | views that hold a good life to be readily achievable only in certain well-defined types of social structure , or only in a society that works concertedly for the realization of certain higher human capacities and the suppression of baser ones , or only given certain types of economic relations among men . |
| 11 | Place in a saucepan half-filled with boiling water ( or preferably in a steamer ) and cook , tightly covered , for 1½ hours . |
| 12 | Or possibly in a court of justice . |
| 13 | Meanwhile 21 industrialized countries , gathered under the auspices of IEA , had elaborated an oil-sharing arrangement to be invoked in the event of any disruption which caused a shortfall of 7 per cent or more in a member country 's normal supply arrangements . |
| 14 | Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far . |
| 15 | Greater and lesser frequency existed in about equal proportions , but nearly twice as many of this married population had intercourse only once a week , or less often , than had intercourse three times or more in a week . |
| 16 | Given the alternative of storage internally in the mind or externally in a file ( paper-based or computer-based ) external records are much superior for literal reproductions at least in western societies ( there is anecdotal evidence concerning illiterate traders in other cultures who seem to have remarkable memories for detailed facts and numbers connected with their personal business ) . |
| 17 | The conjunction of the two gives us such singers of whom there occur perhaps half-a-dozen in a generation or even in a century . |
| 18 | With significant opportunities for growth , or even in a recession , all this change provides business for executive search . |
| 19 | By comparison , socially created inequality ‘ consists of the different privileges which some men enjoy to the prejudice of others , such as that of being more rich , more honoured , more powerful , or even in a position to exact obedience ’ ( quoted in Bottomore , 1965 , pp. 15–16 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Naturally , if there are legal proceeds , you may be required to testify as a witness here , or even in a court of law . ’ |
| 21 | The likelihood of finding it on a University reading list , or even in a University library , would be slight , though the books of Roberts 's lifelong friend George Gissing do have a place in the approved literary canon . |
| 22 | Clearly you are not going to do all this in an hour , in an afternoon , or even in a day or two . |
| 23 | You can adapt the menus for eating away from home , i.e. at work or even in a restaurant . |
| 24 | Or even in a shop somewhere . |
| 25 | This is based on a form of pyramid training in which co-ordinators from each school are trained to train colleagues in their own school or sometimes in a consortium of local schools . |
| 26 | Sometimes a doe will extend a dead end within a burrow and construct her breeding chamber ; more usually she makes a small hole either out in open terrain or sometimes in a hedgerow . |
| 27 | Cutting letter box slots in doors is a job most of us have to do once or twice in a decade . |
| 28 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 29 | He had wanted to know if I knew a good cardiologist , because he had a granddaughter with a rare heart condition who needed an operation , or else in a year 's time she would have died . |
| 30 | Possibly the pendulum has swung too far in that people have gone from feeling that somewhere in a marriage there should be room to accommodate their personal feelings , to believing that their feelings are everything . ’ |