Example sentences of "[adj] in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Concerns over the proper role of local government in providing services to communities featured high in a Lord 's debate last week .
2 Later , when she watched the scene during the shooting , she 'd find more girls in the pile of smashed-up cars : one putting on lipstick high in a lorry 's cab , another lying on the bonnet like a mascot , face to the car 's prow , giving a feline look as she too read aloud , from a French philosopher who later in a fit of madness pushed his wife under in the bath , and held her there till there were no more bubbles .
3 A woman 's dress sense is much less important to more educated men than to those with basic education , while married men are less interested in a woman 's mouth than any other group .
4 URGENT — NDO would like to hear from any teacher interested in a men 's class in London SW1 ( evening ) or a handicapped children 's class at Dartford .
5 Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going .
6 Try to see Rasbora kalochroma well-established in a dealer 's tanks before considering a purchase .
7 The mode of student attendance is more difficult to forecast , because while a full-time place for study will feature topmost in a candidate 's range of choices , the prospect of getting a job early may provide a stimulus for part-time study .
8 ‘ I do n't suppose it figures large in an officer 's training . ’
9 Ezra Pound 's long love affair with England , and his angry and wounded turning against her in 1917 or 1918 , can not of course bulk so large in an American 's sense of him as in an Englishman 's .
10 But er , it was just the thing , they thought inevitable in a tailor 's workroom .
11 It helped to have two such formidable singers taking the two female dragon roles : Anne Collins as a fruity Princess Clarissa , tyrannical in a general 's uniform of black leather , and Jane Eaglen as Fata Morgana , like Katisha in Mikado only more so .
12 The second misunderstanding concerns the ideas which must be present in an animal 's mind if kin selection is to operate .
13 One reason why no such demonstration is possible is the fact that a variety of factors are involved in a scientist 's judgement of the merits of a scientific theory .
14 The rest of this chapter and the following chapter provide a more detailed account of the processes which are involved in a child 's mastery of language from the perspective of learning theory , the acquisition of abstract rules and developmental change .
15 During their trial separation , Robyn became deeply involved in a Women 's Group at Cambridge who met regularly but informally to discuss women 's writing and feminist literary theory .
16 They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical .
17 Surely it must be something else , something basic , inherent in a person 's character or , rather , most people 's characters , which saw to it that the world went round .
18 Yet , the benefit inherent in a holder 's right to sue the carrier may well be worth the burden of having to pay unpaid freight .
19 People are viewed as having a ‘ station ’ or ‘ groove ’ in society ; notions which imply a distinctive balance between rights and duties inherent in an individual 's social role or function .
20 Free elections would then be possible in a year 's time when all parties could participate equally . ’
21 Being short-scale in a Gibson EB3 sort of way , the Hamer is quite comfortable to wear .
22 The case is likely to be heard soon in private in a judge 's chambers .
23 Fox said : ‘ He was like a hungry dog let loose in a butcher 's shop ; not knowing where to start .
24 When you ring , Butlin 's will make a provisional booking and request that you send in a booking form , available in a Butlin 's Holiday Worlds brochure .
25 When you call , Butlin 's will make a provisional booking and ask you to send in a booking form , available in a Butlin 's Holiday World Breakaways brochure or send you a copy .
26 What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise .
27 And then we get through customs , and the two of us are having a laugh because we 're safely back , and suddenly this drunk in a chauffeur 's cap throws himself at us and nearly puts out my eye with a cardboard sign and treads on my foot into the bargain .
28 Few people will be able to complete the route in one go , but luckily it is accessible by public transport at a number of staging points , so it can be split into chunks more manageable in a fortnight 's holiday .
29 This experience of a tight community of shared aspiration is rare in a novelist 's lonely life .
30 A man who is essentially passive in an activist 's role , a man willing to let the tides of history dictate his actions . ’
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