Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 2 | She fumbled for the torch , and thumbed over the button with a chilly hand , and the cone of light spilled over a man 's body , face-down in the shallow water , glistening under the abrupt brightness in violent projections of black and white . |
| 3 | Under sail the yacht can be enjoyed from behind the wheel in the spacious cockpit , or when the weather gets nasty there is a second steering station with complete instrumentation and controls under the dodger . |
| 4 | And the motorist who changed a wheel in the fast lane of the M Six . |
| 5 | A benign clinical course was associated with : absence of immunoreactive HBcAg or active cirrhosis in the native liver , as well as the presence of HDAg in the native liver . |
| 6 | As he reflected on the brutality of what he had seen done in the name of religion in the Civil War , Taylor asked himself , ‘ If persons be Christians in their lives and Christians in their profession , … why should I hate such persons whom God loves and who love God , because … they have not the same opinion as I have ? ’ |
| 7 | SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION |
| 8 | Kenny Mathieson meets Matthias Bamert preparing to conduct the RSNO in the Scottish premiere of a little-known work |
| 9 | Fortunately she had an order for a full-length wool coat and dress , and worked in happy isolation in the small room at the back of the shop , her mind lingering on the implication of Penry 's invitation as her fingers flew independently to finish the order for a customer due to return to the States a few days later . |
| 10 | The Ryvoan Bothy , nestling in splendid isolation in the Ryvoan pass |
| 11 | And despite massive obstacles — the destruction caused by the First World War , the ravages of a civil war brought on by the support that foreign capitalists lent the savage counter-revolutionary efforts of Russia 's defeated classes , international isolation in the inter-war period , the appalling destruction wrought by Hitler 's rapacious invasion , the sustained hostility of the capitalist West — a socialist society was built . |
| 12 | The glow from the furnace in the steam-filled room was like the flames of hell licking out to show her the place where her father had gone . |
| 13 | This allows the water-retaining sponge in the sole plate to operate efficiently . |
| 14 | In fifty millesimals , when you are sure that the organic destruction has been checked , you can administer the same remedy in the centesimal scale : you can now use it without the slightest aggravation , the patient can be cured . |
| 15 | There had been deep disappointment in the Conservative Party with the results of their own reform of local government . |
| 16 | But Muawad spent his first year in Parliament as an exile in the Syrian port city of Lattakia , after a member of a rival family accused him of taking part in an inter-clan clash in June 1957 near Zghotra in which 16 people were killed . |
| 17 | Now , however , he , Alfred and their sister Godgifu were abandoned to what must have looked like permanent exile in the Norman court ; Edward was doubtless on his way there when he visited the monastery of St Peter 's Ghent in December 1016 and , according to a charter , promised them English lands should he become king . |
| 18 | Law and order in Uganda IT IS more than a decade since Kampala was one of the world 's danger capitals , when Uganda was under the sway of Idi Amin , the murderous clown now in exile in the Middle East . |
| 19 | The preferred approach of Soviet officials was to confirm Iran 's abandonment of a pro-Western political and military policy by encouraging its association in the Non-Aligned Movement . |
| 20 | The brief history of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association in the following chapter suggests that this is , however , an incomplete conceptualisation . |
| 21 | When I spoke to the Conservative association in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency I heard only a litany of problems caused by the Labour-controlled council , which has done absolutely nothing to promote the area . |
| 22 | Though Hobbes had already made enemies of John Wallis and Seth Ward , two of its founder members , over his claim to have solved the geometrical problem of squaring the circle , it was at least partly due to his association in the popular mind with a materialistic atheism that he never became a Fellow . |
| 23 | The association in the popular mind of the city with crime , squalor , and the physical deterioration of the population was a recurrent theme in nineteenth-century literature and thought . |
| 24 | I shall be meeting the representatives of the Standing Conference of Principal Youth and Community Officers for the London and south-east Region on 17 December , and I am meeting representatives of the British Youth Council and the Scout Association in the near future . |
| 25 | The allegations were greeted with incredulity by Western commentators , who also saw in Pavlov 's xenophobic and anti-free market assessments further confirmation of the ascendency of conservative thinking in the Soviet leadership . |
| 26 | They stood much closer to the mainstream of political thinking in the working-class movement than the Marxists and were able to tap a tradition of radicalism which extended back to the Chartists of the previous century and further . |
| 27 | In addition to being a major contractor in the British programme to identify a safe geological repository site for radioactive waste , the Group carries out research in geochemistry , hydrogeology and microbiology within European Community projects and for various international customers . |
| 28 | But the ideals of the purist must always come to grief in the devastating vortex of national politics . |
| 29 | He had slept little these past three and a half weeks , often waking of his own accord in the pre-dawn darkness and walking through to his personal study to attempt to concentrate on papers of state . |
| 30 | Even in this area , notably over the Americans ‘ Star Wars ’ defence system , there had been rifts as well as accord in the transatlantic relationship . |