Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the intervention of consciousness in either a developed form ( Wigner 's friend ) or at a more rudimentary level ( Schrödinger 's cat ) seems to provide the latest link in the chain at which the matter could be settled . |
| 2 | However my own opinion , for what it is worth , is that the possibility of making moral judgements is inextricably mixed up with the possession of language capability in quite a different form from that which has been shown to exist in experimental domesticated apes . |
| 3 | A Lakatosian research programme is a structure that provides guidance for future research in both a positive and a negative way . |
| 4 | This example might seem unrealistically pessimistic , as a new band may feel confident of being able to record and release their album in just a few months , with money from sales and royalties quickly starting to now in . |
| 5 | Letters have been flooding in from viewers desperate to see the Spanish soap from the axe in just a few weeks . |
| 6 | It was an indication of the great difficulty the European idea would have in achieving concerted action in even a single economic sector , and suggested that the recently established and broader European Economic Community of 1957 would not find it easy to secure its broad objectives of common policies and a common market . |
| 7 | Peregrine , however , was there lying back in his chair and offering himself to the hot sun in rather a shameless way . |
| 8 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
| 9 | The research will focus on the adaptation of carbon dioxide lasers for topside and subsea welding work in both a wet and hyperbaric environment and the eventual development of a remotely operated welding system . |
| 10 | On the other hand , in many other spheres , the most amazing developments that have taken place in just a few decades are taken completely for granted and even more is expected . |
| 11 | I had given Leslie an antique bloodstone in quite a massive setting , with the motto Spero Meliora engraved on the seal . |
| 12 | Together with farming , mainly cereals , it is a mixed community , with those travelling to employment in Beverley and Hull and those employed at the Army School of Mechanical Transport in both a uniformed and civilian capacity . |
| 13 | We talk about the stress in just a few minutes . |
| 14 | Clarify , however , is positioning itself against the others as the most ‘ haute couture ’ of the breed , the kind of house that could easily mushroom into a $100m enterprise in just a few years . |
| 15 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 16 | That 's a price DG could never hope to match , indeed Motorola could probably fulfill DG 's entire CPU requirements for the part in just a straight two week run on its fab line . |
| 17 | At Debenham there was a lot of extra curricular activities on offer like inter house competitions , Sports days , I took part in quite a few activities like Sports days , assemblies and some of the interhouse competitions like design a Christmas card and basket ball , I also went to a club on Friday lunch times . |
| 18 | The orchestra is certainly very accomplished and is shown off to good advantage in quite a big bold and well-detailed recording made at St John 's , Smith Square . |
| 19 | Because it , in a job that ca n't be done in isolation , to complete this procedure or procedures , we may have been plural , needs er , consultation with er , certainly with Simon 's division in quite a substantial way . |
| 20 | I have taught degree-level physics in both a modular and non-modular form . |
| 21 | The DN10 cDNA clone contains an alternatively spliced exon present in only a small fraction of P mRNA from human melanocytes and fetal brain ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 22 | Expectation has been shown to influence the outcome of even the most carefully controlled double-blind trial in either a positive or a negative direction . |
| 23 | This involves the donor in only a single signature on a simple form which any RNLI regional office , or headquarters , can supply . |
| 24 | Up until then most of John 's friends and colleagues had heard any news in rather a fragmented way at parties or in the pub , which was frustrating for them . |
| 25 | It 's the fourth attack on the very old in the Milton Keynes area in just a few months . |
| 26 | At this site it 's quite clear they were living in a prtly wooded area in quite a warm environment . |
| 27 | Dwarfs and miniatures are becoming increasingly popular as you can grow a large , varied collection in quite a small space . |
| 28 | Watched by a demonstration of 5000 jeering westerners at the Brandenburg Gate , and by Mr Willi Brandt , the then Mayor of West Berlin who referred to ‘ the vacant eyes of uniformed compatriots doing their duty on the other side ’ , the soldiers completed the first barrier in only a few hours . |
| 29 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
| 30 | The more sophisticated Greeks were thus made to regard man in pre-Trojan times as much the same as his distant offspring , and this tended to demythologize the Greek legends , thereby placing the past in quite a new perspective . |