Example sentences of "[is] in a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were sitting watchin' the news , the world 's in a mess The poor and the hungry , a world of distress Herpes , Aids , the Middle East at full throttle Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle . |
| 2 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 3 | You know we were asked , Do you want your own bank account really and we decided er democratically that we 'd have the one bank account really for make sure the D H S S did n't start snooping really and you know er that 's worked very well I mean certainly the men very much tell us everything that 's going on and erm well you know I do n't think there 's any conflict of erm I do n't know you know it 's it 's difficult I suppose it 's amazing really the way it does work you know and that er you know but it 's quite loose really because it 's er that 's in a way the way one of it 's successes probably you know that 's it 's not a very structured I mean probably the lodge is more structured I mean men are used to their lodge meetings are n't they you know ? |
| 4 | Once she 's in a routine a bit more then but we are still trying to do as many |
| 5 | When that disk is in a drive the drive head to read the disk which causes a small fire inside disk drive ha ha ha ha , let the fuckhead try and fix that . |
| 6 | The landscape traversed by the Turners is in a sense a literary one ( hence indicators like Poe Cove ) , but Barth is also careful to specify their seamanship with realistic accuracy . |
| 7 | Schubert 's unfinished C major Sonata is in a sense a piano score of an orchestral work , but then of course , as with the ‘ Wanderer ’ Fantasy in the same key , the point is to turn the piano into an orchestra , with the help of longer pedals and a wider dynamic range . |
| 8 | It is in a sense a perversion , by which instead of attending to situations in order to respond to them intelligently , one treats awareness itself as an end . |
| 9 | The Holy Trinity is in a sense a communitarian concept , for God dwells in perfect communal relationship . |
| 10 | This aunt is in some sense a kind of female-father figure , just as the maternal uncle is in a sense a male version of the mother . |
| 11 | This attempt to be influenced by the maximum of factual knowledge is in a sense a rational way of trying to answer ethical questions ( this being perhaps the Stevensonian answer to the second question raised in the introduction ) , but it offers no guarantee of congruence . |
| 12 | His KL collection is in a sense a continuation of the looks he designed for Chloé in being soft , rather sexy and highly individual and tends to be worn by women who do not need the reassurance of the double C on gilt buttons . |
| 13 | The cooking of this mid-Rhône country is in a sense a cross-roads cooking . |
| 14 | It gives what is in a sense a richer account of a mental episode by including relations with other strictly mental episodes and facts-these too , of course , to be understood relationally . |
| 15 | Moderator it may seem a little strange to resist this er addendum but I do so really because er it 's never a good idea to er to be amending what is in a sense a liturgical piece of work on the floor of the house . |
| 16 | I would now like to turn my attention to something which is in a sense a mirror image of what we have been considering . |
| 17 | Erotic rapture , it transpires , is in a sense a reptilian condition . |
| 18 | It is in a sense a part of the issue of children 's language development and links can and should be made . |
| 19 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 20 | The government does not merely confine itself to setting the ‘ rules of the game ’ , but is in a sense a participant in industrial relations to the extent that it chooses to intervene . |
| 21 | This chapter is in a sense a crucial point in the course : although the segmental material of the preceding chapters is important as a foundation , the relationship between strong and weak syllables and the overall prosodic characteristics of words and sentences are essential to intelligibility , and most of the remaining chapters of the course are concerned with such matters . |
| 22 | It is in a sense the balance sheet of our human existence , the closing of the accounts . |
| 23 | The editor of Wisden is in a sense the conscience of cricket . |
| 24 | The second issue is in a sense the counterpart of the first , for it concerns the proper addressee in the state of destination . |
| 25 | The third problem is in a sense the most important , albeit a corollary of the two preceding points : the application of substantive principles will require the proper articulation of a background political theory which will serve to explain why a particular principle is said to produce or demand a particular result in a given case . |
| 26 | The book by Clifford Joseph is in a sense the more readable and will perhaps be in more readily appreciated by the none-specialist in tax matters who wishes to understand the essentials of the tax but is not necessarily concerned with an exhaustive treatment of the subject . |
| 27 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 28 | This is in a sense the most fundamental statistical representation , although it is not the most convenient for the development of models of turbulent structure based on experimental observation . |
| 29 | The Return of the king is in a way a parallel , in another a reproach , to Macbeth . |
| 30 | This is in a way a companion volume , in its emphasis on the geographers , to his much earlier book , Lectures on the Geography of Greece , based on lectures given in Oxford in 1872 ( 1873 ) . |