Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 2 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 3 | Well do you see this vote against opting out as a basically a vote in favour of the tertiary college plans for Banbury ? |
| 4 | Especially a seat in Parliament . |
| 5 | Whether there is upregulation of the genes that produce these antigens or merely a change in expression on the cell surface has not been investigated : in situ hybridisation should provide an answer to this question . |
| 6 | The changing patterns of incidence of gastric carcinoma may , in part , be related to changes in smoking habits and perhaps a change in incidence of H pylori infection . |
| 7 | The long hot summers , coupled with perhaps a spell in oak casks , dish up the gooseberries in the friendlier guise of stewed fruit with sugar . |
| 8 | The history of ‘ communications ’ as a field of study is perhaps a case in point . |
| 9 | In the West , she would no doubt have gone on to pass ‘ A ’ levels or the baccalaureate with enough marks to ensure a place at university and then perhaps a career in law or medicine , banking or politics . |
| 10 | So a revolution in music was catalysed by a record executive 's desire for his own personal sexual soundtrack . |
| 11 | Just as a change in liquid assets may lead to little or no change in credit , so a change in credit may occur with little or no change in liquid assets . |
| 12 | The public softening of Turkey 's attitude towards the Kurds may , in the end , be less a change in policy than recognition of the difficulties in controlling what happens across the border in northern Iraq . |
| 13 | These arrangements led in due course to the building society sending the £15,000 , less a sum in respect of its conveyancing costs , to W. H. Hopkins & Co. , pending completion of the purchase and mortgage . |
| 14 | I should ask only a smile in return … ’ |
| 15 | Yeah it looks like a satellite dish , it 's only a yard in diameter . |
| 16 | Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more . |
| 17 | It is false that only a person in authority is an authority . |
| 18 | It needed not only a revolution in organisation but in technology too . |
| 19 | The farmworker receives only a pittance in pay-off — perhaps £2,000 in redundancy pay — whereas the owner of the land may receive thousands of pounds for several years . |
| 20 | The opening of Sonnet 148 again criticizes his own powers of sight and discrimination : It is not only a failure in perception : as we have seen in 152 , the eyes were merely agents or instruments of the will or judgement , from which self-deception flowed , forcing the organs of perception to see what they are told to see ( as in the political conformity enforced in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ) . |
| 21 | Tai chi has far fewer styles than the hand system of kung fu , only a handful in fact . |
| 22 | A licence coupled with an interest , e.g. a profit , is irrevocable , as although the licence itself is only a right in personam , it confers a right in rem to do something once an entry has been made . |
| 23 | Perhaps an increase in friction in the system is absorbing too much energy . |
| 24 | Erm and accepting that would mean er obviously an increase in rent and perhaps changes in that lease er in order that he would be able to er to invest that money . |
| 25 | And obviously an expert in business . |
| 26 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 27 | We would n't expect the County Council to be proceeding to approval of the plan , but merely an approval in principle or an approval of the concept . |
| 28 | This is normally only an issue in purchase advisory work . |
| 29 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 30 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |