Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting the question this way makes clear that a justification in terms of wealth relies on a trade-off : corporate decision-making power should be accepted as the price of efficient wealth creation . |
| 2 | Despite Anthony Fauci 's assertion that ‘ the virus is the major factor in HIV disease , ’ it was clear that a shift in emphasis is taking place from direct antiretroviral strategies to immune-directed therapies . |
| 3 | After this double success hope must have been high that a solution in the case of the general quintic would soon be forthcoming . |
| 4 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 5 | Caledor gave this great honour to the Reaver Knights for their loyalty and to this day , over five thousand years later , the Reaver Knights still rigorously patrol Ulthuan and a place in their ranks is much sought after . |
| 6 | Last season there were also two one-cap players at Sussex , by P.W.G. Parker has now moved to Durham ( who incidentally now regularly field a Smith , a Brown and a Jones in the same side : truly a classless county ) . |
| 7 | Abdul Shahid , a Bengali-speaking five year old and a beginner in English , wanted to show off his three sand pies lined up in order of size . |
| 8 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
| 9 | Always an example of devotion to duty , and as unflinching as a hero in a book . |
| 10 | Conversation at table is as superfluous as a sermon in church ; all is still but for the ping of the latest microwave masterpiece . |
| 11 | ‘ Another told me he had a dream , there was a fountain and it had a name , clear as a bell in his dream : Jouvence . |
| 12 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 13 | ‘ Just hanging there from one of the beams , swaying as free as a leaf in the wind . |
| 14 | The stringent criteria for selecting our patients meant that we had few patients and it is possible that a difference in acid secretion between the patients with idiopathic DU and H pylori positive patients with DU could become apparent with greater numbers . |
| 15 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 16 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 17 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 18 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 19 | It is arguable that a decline in the traditional role of the military nobility in war was presaged by the ever-greater use made of artillery , that most ‘ un-noble ’ and indiscriminate causer of death , which claimed among its victims several great noblemen , among them the Bastard of Bourbon , killed at Soisson in 1414 ; Thomas , earl of Salisbury ( ‘ a worthi werrioure amonge all Cristen men … slayne at the sege of Orliaunce with a Gonne ’ , as the author of the Brut reported the event ) ; John Talbot , earl of Shrewsbury , killed at Castillon in July 1453 ; and Jacques de Lalaing , ‘ le bon chevalier ’ , killed in the very same month at the siege of Poeke , near Ghent . |
| 20 | It is arguable that this is a practical necessity given limited time and resources , but it is also arguable that a discontinuity in teaching methods and learning experiences is likely to result . |
| 21 | However , in Smith v South Wales Switchgear Ltd [ 1978 ] 1 WLR 165 the House of Lords held that a clause in a contract for services requiring the contractor to indemnify the employer against " any loss , claim or proceedings whatsoever arising out of or in the course of the execution of the order " did not apply to require an indemnity in respect of injuries caused by the employer 's negligence . |
| 22 | The House of Lords held that a provision in the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 that required track owners to provide available space for bookmakers on the track , was passed for the benefit of the race-going public rather than bookmakers ( Cutler v Wandsworth Stadium [ 1949 ] AC 398 ) . |
| 23 | Considering the clean wake and the almost dinghy-like responsiveness of the yacht , we were convinced that a reach in a slightly stiffer breeze would have seen her sliding into an easy surf . |
| 24 | The price has doubled since Iraq invaded Kuwait and now it 's going up fast though with traders convinced that a war in the Gulf is inevitable . |
| 25 | Like an agent , a distributor will usually be a local firm or individual and a specialist in the requirements of the local market . |
| 26 | A shopkeeper with a shop in Bristol Central and a home in Bristol West would now qualify for a vote in both constituencies ; under the new system , there were few ways to qualify for plural votes , but it was much easier actually to qualify , and so tens of thousands of new plural votes were created , overwhelmingly Unionist . |
| 27 | His voice quiet but as winding as a blow in the solar plexus , he invited , ‘ Tell me more about your mother , Luce . ’ |
| 28 | And the moody Rich who would take a girl out to sit by a river , leave her as untouched as a Madonna in a Lady Chapel and read poetry aloud . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In contrast , the contributors to this book , whilst differing between themselves in many respects , share both a critical refutation of the manner in which the inner city has commonly been taken as unproblematic and a belief in the need to use the vocabulary of popular debates to propose alternative conceptualisations of urban crisis and to subject current policy to critical examination . |