Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again we have not found significant polymorphism in this pattern which we take as a male specific pattern for the purposes of parasite sex determination in the laboratory . |
| 2 | Moreover , even where the use of an ineffective term is not prohibited , the attempt to " frighten off " claims may put the business in a bad light in any litigation which does result ; it may also be taken into account by the Office of Fair Trading for a number of purposes , including that of deciding whether to grant , renew or revoke a licence under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 . |
| 3 | By id in this context I mean the unconscious , instinctual basis of behaviour from which man 's ego has become differentiated . |
| 4 | However I do not favour this view as to my mind the force in this poem which awakens is one indifferent to the survival of the life it awoke . |
| 5 | We should choose to promote environmentally aware and responsible science — as well as to prioritise investment in environmental science itself . |
| 6 | If I do another cardigan in this way I shall do two or even three lines on the sewing machine . |
| 7 | As a result in this country we have had a heavy tax burden and a structure of taxation which is a major disincentive to take risk , to invest and even to work . |
| 8 | The NIBA have yet to taste defeat in this championship which started three years ago , and following their 48 shot victory over the Bowling League of Ireland in their opening game the Parks are heading for their fourth successive title . |
| 9 | " there 's the very devil of a horseman in yonder field who thinks nothing of eating three tigers for breakfast ! " |
| 10 | However , wherever there is hesitancy or opposition in ethical attitude which is not rooted in hesitancy or disagreement in belief , in the sense that no amount of factual certainty or agreement would cause the final ascendancy of one definite attitude , Stevenson thinks that the ethical question can not be resolved rationally . |
| 11 | Forty suggests that the attraction of the neo-classical , which emerged from a somewhat wider range as the most successful of Wedgewood 's styles , was that it provided an acceptable facade for the introduction of the advances being made by ceramic science , the most modern techniques thereby being employed in the improvement of reproductions , a tension in commercial styling which has been strongly asserted ever since . |
| 12 | But they should have used ethylene glycol and not water since the bumpouses were a very very new phenomenon and the little bumpouses melted and formed an impenetrable crust in that area which , from that time forth , served to remind the silly , pea-brained man species that new thinking is needed for new times . |
| 13 | Example 104 is taken from Percy Scholes 's Oxford Companion to Music ( 8th edn ) , where it is quoted as music which ‘ abandons all pretence of key in any strand whatever ’ , and is therefore completely atonal : However , far from being atonal , the upper part is very clearly in G minor — ; G being merely a substitution note for A , on which it resolves ( an octave lower than usual ) . |
| 14 | THE NEXT DAY , fourteen roses were planted in the snowbanks outside the Polytechnique with a card in Gothic script which read : Father , in the name of your son I pray to you on his behalf . |
| 15 | Following a break in nursing practice there may be an understandable hesitation and anxiety about returning because of the inevitable changes that will have taken place . |
| 16 | The museum with old apparatus and machinery is one kind , but in the nineteenth century it was the museum as a centre of research in current science which was more important . |
| 17 | They have to be outstanding academically , and must show that having served pupillage and completed a limited period of practice in this country they intend subsequently to return to their country of origin , and that the experience of English pupillage and practice will be of significant benefit in establishing a practice in their home country . |
| 18 | With snow in plentiful supply we have a special section in this issue for those of you who want to get off the piste . |
| 19 | But if you take the instances away from the rule in this way there is no rule left to ask this question about . |
| 20 | And when we doubled the company 's turnover in one year I decided to investigate his methods . ’ |
| 21 | To look at the work of an art critic in this way we have to turn to historians of taste for the past and to journalists for the present . |
| 22 | Contempt carries a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment , and is the only serious crime in English law which is triable by judges alone . |
| 23 | He hopes that the cohesion and character which England have shown for most of the last 11 months will bridge the gap in sheer talent which will continue to separate the two teams . |
| 24 | First , the decision would strengthen the cohesion of NATO following a gap in Western defence which the Soviet Union 's deployment of medium-range SS-20 missiles had exposed . |
| 25 | It is just not realized that it is possible or even legal to arrange a funeral without employing undertakers — a gap in public knowledge which , of course , the undertakers do little to fill . |
| 26 | They were willing to accept a cut in transitional benefit which would have had the effect of ‘ throwing at least some of those receiving transitional benefit upon public assistance ’ , while Henderson pressed hard for a ‘ premium ’ , a flat deduction of 1s. a week from all unemployment benefits . |
| 27 | But the substantial cut in military spending which allowed accelerated expansion of welfare services without a correspondingly faster rise in the burden of taxation represented a gain for workers . |
| 28 | Imagine a random decrease in aggregate demand which , for the private sector , is unpredictable . |
| 29 | Dr Mackintosh went on , ‘ I do n't take much pleasure in modern poetry myself . |
| 30 | He also points out that a commitment to equality implies also a commitment to a state which will push everybody around until they are equal — Procrustes was a figure in Greek mythology who forced all those he came across to become the same height , either by chopping bits off or by using a rack to stretch their legs . |