Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 2 | Although an unconscious patient is likely to have biochemical hypoglycaemia ( blood glucose concentration <3.0 mmol/l ) , the relation between symptomatic and biochemical hypoglycaemia may be poor , with one study showing biochemical confirmation in less than a third of symptomatic patients . |
| 3 | Andy Russell put the home side in front but a mistake by Kingstonian keeper Adrian Blake allowed Tony Adcock to grab the equaliser . |
| 4 | He joined as an assistant malting manager at Ipswich , and was made head maltster in 1968 and a director of in 1973 . |
| 5 | Pending the finalisation of the selection scheme additional applications have had to be made for approval of an interim scheme for entry in 1992/93 and a developed scheme for 1993/94 . |
| 6 | For example , foreign electronics firms have pre-empted the creation of a domestically-owned electronics industry in all but a few countries . |
| 7 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 8 | Jean Rhys virtually disappeared as an author between 1939 and 1966 , and Flann O'Brien 's At Swim-Two-Birds passed similarly through a penumbra of neglect between first publication in 1939 and a popular reissue in 1960 . |
| 9 | He was created baronet in 1895 and a privy councillor in 1906 . |
| 10 | The Assembly 's standing committee has managed to iron out all the main points of contention in less than a month , dispelling the predictions by foreign and local pundits of drawn-out negotiations . |
| 11 | His attack on a prominent Jesuit and his expansion of natural magic to embrace the allegedly miraculous powers of sacred relics led to denunciation by the Louvain medical faculty in 1623 and a subsequent appearance before the Spanish Inquisition . |
| 12 | If they hit it , it would rip the bottom out of Golden Girl in less than a second . |
| 13 | MAOIST ‘ Shining Path ’ guerrillas attacked a hamlet in the central Peruvian jungle , killing eight people and wounding seven in the second raid in the zone in less than a month , Panamericana Television said . |
| 14 | For all its political militancy , the ILP was no less fearful of revolutionaries put their faith in industrial action : ‘ A general strike in the big key industries of Europe will put an end to the war in less than a week ’ , declared Solidarity , a shop steward paper , early in February . |
| 15 | If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels . |
| 16 | They need , above all , to become familiar with the British role model for a school teacher in general and a language teacher in particular . |
| 17 | Minimum competencies testing has not been a feature of the UK experience , although the government 's announcement in 1987 that a national curriculum was to be established , with benchmarks for achievement at ages 7,11 and 14 , appeared at first to have similar implications . |
| 18 | One of Beto 's constant themes is that classification is something which can be carried out properly only by staff who have both human insight in general and a specific knowledge of the prison system and the background of most of its clients . |
| 19 | Mr Reed rose quickly through the bank , becoming an assistant director in 1976 and a director in 1979 , before being appointed head of the corporate finance department in 1984 . |
| 20 | Future joint space observatories include the first large gamma ray observatory in 1985 and a cooled telescope for studying very short radio waves in 1987 . |
| 21 | Eventually , after further compromises to meet British objections about the public nature of the ministerial meetings , the foreign ministers of the Brussels states issued a communiqué on 29 January 1949 in favour of a Council of Europe ‘ consisting of a ministerial committee meeting in private and a consultative body meeting in public ’ . |
| 22 | the EEC directive in 1977 and a number of national projects , particularly MOTET have recommended training as an essential means for providing an adequate supply of teachers . |
| 23 | Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year . |
| 24 | All the published sermons preached at St Paul 's Cross in London from 1570 onwards took a firm Calvinist line on predestination , and the theology faculties at the universities dispensed doctrinal Calvinism to those training for the ministry ; meanwhile the laity were provided with the Genevan Bible in 1560 and a Calvinist catechism in 1563 . |
| 25 | It was the bloodiest day in two and a half years of Arab protest against Israeli protest against Israeli rule , triggered off when a twenty one year old Israeli machine-gunned seven Arabs to death on a sandy road embankment outside Tel Aviv . |
| 26 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was followed by a Local Government Commissioner in 1969 and a Health Service Commissioner four years later . |
| 27 | Sole , however , was critical of the extensive travelling which the itinerary imposed on the Scots , with a four-hour flight between the first and second venues , Darwin and Brisbane , and then the same time on to Hobart … from one extreme to the other in less than a week . |
| 28 | He was educated at Winchester College ( 1915–20 ) and Trinity College , Cambridge ( 1920–3 ) , where he read mathematics , winning an entrance scholarship , becoming a senior scholar in 1921 and a wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1923 . |
| 29 | In the second Cabinet reshuffle in less than a month , Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on Jan. 12 named Elemer Gergatz as Agriculture Minister in place of Ferenc Jozsef Nagy , who became a Minister without portfolio , and Gyula Kiss ( hitherto a Minister without portfolio ) as Minister of Labour Affairs in place of Sandor Györivanyi . |
| 30 | On the other hand Nova Cygni 1975 , which rose to magnitude 1.8 in only a few hours , dropped below naked-eye visibility in less than a week , and by now I have lost sight of it even with the 39-cm reflector in my observatory . |