Example sentences of "[conj] in a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 2 | More explicitly , PR in the present context requires that in a legislature the distribution of seats to political parties shall be proportionate to the number of votes given to those parties . |
| 3 | The funny thing was that in a way the old fart was right . |
| 4 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 5 | They have since then also covered a wide academic spectrum — including business and management studies , science and technology , the social sciences , the humanities , and art and design — so that in a sense the term ‘ Polytechnic ’ is something of a misnomer . |
| 6 | The reason is that in a school the predator is confused by the multiplicity of moving prey items : it can not concentrate on one without being distracted by another . |
| 7 | The mullahs were concerned that in a republic the Muslin clergy might be disestablished , as had recently happened in Turkey . |
| 8 | Suppose that in a decay the recoil momentum is p ; then the kinetic energy of the nucleus is p 2 /2M where M is its mass . |
| 9 | I begin by repeating the point that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made in a letter to my hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North on 14 January , that in an organisation the size of the health service , which deals with so many patient contacts , it should not be surprising — indeed , it should be welcomed — that we do not seek to impose total uniformity on every single decision that is made about the treatment of patients across the country . |
| 10 | Is it right doctor that you made a , an attack on professional confidence of , other than in a relationship the erm profecting of the order |
| 11 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 12 | The Anglicans were divided — the stoutest of Irish Protestants versus a few stiff Anglo-Catholic parishes ; and in a fight the sympathies of Ramsey 's parish lay with the second . |
| 13 | ‘ It was my honour , and in a degree the honour of my race , ’ he later reflected . |
| 14 | A more wide-ranging reason is that love of things , especially artificial things , could be seen as the besetting sin of modern civilisation , and in a way a new one , not quite Avarice and not quite pride , but somehow attached to both ( see pp. 68 , 128 above ) . |
| 15 | She knew she ought not to mind his advances — they were only natural really , and in a way a compliment . |
| 16 | She could not think that , and in a way the question was senseless . |
| 17 | They clambered to respectability by continually putting their own house in order , and in a way the battle to bring in not only the middle classes but the religious , the political , and the serious-minded took far more energy and ingenuity than winning that initial mass audience . |
| 18 | By the government is the first answer that you will be likely to give , and in a way the answer is right . |
| 19 | Now , in analyzing dreams that is the single and in a way the only problem . |
| 20 | The background changes and in a way the background is about things like the visual aids , flipcharts and er the use of video and er even these peripherals you can put on a on a overhead projector now that plug into a computer . |
| 21 | Dr Clarke is a political historian , and in a sense a political historian of the old school . |
| 22 | He is merely expressing a suspicion , and in a sense a hope ( ‘ when she has given him the clap , then he 'll come back to me ’ , to modernize it somewhat ) . |
| 23 | He was sharp , alert and in a sense no different from his old self , but he was not — somehow — Li Shai Tung . |
| 24 | Rather it means the extension of a longstanding trend whereby council houses have generally been built in either Kirkwall or Stromness , and in a sense the opening up of new opportunities since council houses are now more readily available than they were before . |
| 25 | And in a sense the holy alliance came to be seen as representing their interests . |
| 26 | Looking at these pictures one senses that an explosion was inevitable and in a sense the explosion was the Demoiselles . |
| 27 | seventeen and since then people have discovered more and in a sense the list is more or less limitless . |
| 28 | So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism . |
| 29 | However , in poor light our rate can drop below 10 , and in a cinema the 24 frames per second on the film merge into a continuous moving picture . |
| 30 | Take the T V away and conversation collapses and dies and in a survey a former German couple , they took away lots of and they were nearly suicidal and they were nearly murdering |