Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] an [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once in the VAT field it must however be appreciated that a business could go over the 7,200 threshold , as a result of increased business activity or even an increase in the rate of VAT . |
| 2 | In 1924 Einstein had said that if the ideas , then in the air , of renouncing strict causality proved to be correct he would " rather be a cobbler , or even an employee in a gambling house , than a physicist " . |
| 3 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |
| 4 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 5 | Much less flashy and class orientated in a UK sense , they have more of a general consultancy view of the world , with a problem-solving approach rather than just an interest in completing a job . |
| 6 | A well-known publisher , Anthony Blond , writes ‘ The design and appearance of a general book matters but not too much : after all , printing is only a form of communication and rarely an end in itself . |
| 7 | Higher birth-rates among ethnic-minority groups , urban house-building projects , the running down of the new-towns programme and perhaps an improvement in environmental conditions in the cities may all have contributed to this . |
| 8 | There is much talk of green shoots and perhaps an improvement in the next 12 months . |
| 9 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 10 | And obviously an expert in business . |
| 11 | When payment is made the dealer gets his commission , normally splitting it with his mentor and possibly an official in the defence ministry who refuses to rubber stamp the deal without an ‘ incentive ’ . |
| 12 | Guthlac himself was of distinguished Mercian stock and a descendant of the Iclingas , the Mercian royal dynasty ( Vita Guthlaci , chs 1 , 2 ) , and formerly an exile in the time of Ceolred 's father , Aethelred , among the Britons ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 34 ) . |
| 13 | Second , a prior context imposes an additional processing load ( and hence an increase in processing time in Dooling 's experiment ) when a current sentence has to be integrated with information presented earlier in the discourse . |
| 14 | And now an ache in his gut , that he thought first wind , then diarrhoea . |
| 15 | In Fig. 5.2 the shift in the demand curve from to ’ shows a reduction in the demand for bills and simultaneously an increase in the demand for liquidity . |
| 16 | The issue is not whether the UK should back nuclear safety research at Ispra ( those of us in the field in the UK are all in favour of that ) , but whether the majority of the resources ( and even an increase in the planned budget ) should be concentrated on a single project which can not possibly give results until late 1986 . |
| 17 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 18 | And then an address in Portsmouth . |
| 19 | an old car there in bits and then an engine in one corner |
| 20 | After the early evening entertainment there was usually a religious programme , with a break for people to say their prayers , and then an interlude in which a beautifully calligraphed page or two of The Green Book was shown while a voice-over , basso profondo through an echo-chamber , intoned the words . |
| 21 | Another mental game which some people find effective is to try to think of a boy or girl 's name for every letter of the alphabet , then an animal for every letter , and then an item in the kitchen , etc . |
| 22 | His poems in Horizon and elsewhere , collected in book form in 1944 and 1945 , led to his appointment by the BBC as a staff producer and then an instructor in broadcasting technique . |
| 23 | A light chaise or unburdened pony could have extended this perhaps to 30 km ( 19 miles ) , but any distances above those quoted would have required an overnight stop and consequently an increase in the prices of the goods . |
| 24 | This story , of Mary , in love with a lowly clerk ( tall , dark , handsome and actually an aristocrat in disguise ) owed a great deal to the sagas of class confusion and frustrated passions to be found in contemporary fiction magazines and the ‘ penny dreadful novelette ’ , both in its packaging and plot . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , in present-day India , despite its openness in many areas of government and its generally good record on human rights , the state of the prisons remains a rather shameful secret , surfacing now and then , but basically an issue in which neither the politicians , nor the vocal pressure groups , nor the public , have an abiding interest or concern . |
| 26 | We would n't expect the County Council to be proceeding to approval of the plan , but merely an approval in principle or an approval of the concept . |
| 27 | However , one study has not only shown persistence of enhanced platelet reactivity in response to collagen and sodium arachidonate despite a 1 6-week period of near normal glycaemic control but also an increase in platelet reactivity to ADP ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 28 | The shift of the curve to ’ shows a reduction in the stock of outstanding bills , but also an increase in the supply of liquidity . |
| 29 | Soviet design and procurement philosophy displays a prudence and conservatism which reflects well known Soviet constraints , but also an ingenuity in the face of shortages and stringencies that characterises Soviet performance at its best . |
| 30 | This change process enabled the manufacturing entity to effect not only the required reduction in numbers of employees , but also an improvement in operation . |