Example sentences of "[subord] in a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 2 | Is it right doctor that you made a , an attack on professional confidence of , other than in a relationship the erm profecting of the order |
| 3 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 4 | Because in a sense the , the whole our analysis of the was that this er very moderate policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction , of building up reductions , that in itself was producing the required results was n't it ? |
| 5 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 6 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 7 | In some ways it resembles a barchan ( see Chapter 11 ) , but the arms trail , whereas in a barchan the arms or horns lead : the barchan presents its convex face to the wind , the parabolic dune its concave face . |
| 8 | It was quite surprising how when in a disaster the whole community pulled together and helped each other out , and there were a fair number of people who really were having problems . |
| 9 | Provocation is a good note on which to end the book , for in a way the book is a provocation . |
| 10 | Lewis then adds : ‘ The reader who finds these three episodes of no interest need read this book no further , for in a sense the central story of my life is about nothing else . ’ |
| 11 | Since a plan is a process of deliberate choice and decision , it would seem that the output could never be called unnatural ; for in a sense the whole process is unnatural ( if contrasted with unplanned evolution ) . |
| 12 | It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) . |
| 13 | Here , works of different kinds can be shown in spiritual unity , just as in a church a fourteenth-century painting is perfectly compatible with a baroque altar . |
| 14 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |