Example sentences of "be in a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The more children there are in a family the less likely it is that the younger child will have eating difficulties . |
2 | And that general report would be in a sense a summate report or a form tutor report or a er , pupil management report , whatever title |
3 | Any culture , because it has to retain traditional customs and beliefs , has to be in a sense a conservative institution . |
4 | And he felt that it would be in a sense a miracle to produce a detailed adaptation to a particular way of life , a kind of adaptation to being fertilized by bees that you see in an orchid , by a single a large jump . |
5 | If competence and complexity are increasing correlatively , tomorrow 's user will be in a sense no better off than his present day counterpart . |
6 | I remember him being in a pub a while back and a woman saying to him , What 's your wife going to do ? |
7 | For the keys — often made of thick grey iron , sometimes with decorated handles — were in a sense a promise of return , a promise that history inevitably broke . |
8 | The riots were in a sense a foretaste of the Gordon Riots of the summer of 1780 . |
9 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |
10 | Stalnaker , 1975 ) Or , to interpret the idea in a way less ontologically extravagant , a way which does not seem to commit us to a plurality of somehow existing worlds , what the conditional means is this : if our actual world were different in that it were raining , and differences overall were in a sense the smallest possible , the balcony would be wet . |
11 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |
12 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
13 | The concept of the poll tax was that the more people there were in a property the more they paid , whereas under the council tax students will not add to but will deduct from the bill . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ? |
17 | Once she 's in a routine a bit more then but we are still trying to do as many |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The Holy Trinity is in a sense a communitarian concept , for God dwells in perfect communal relationship . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | The cooking of this mid-Rhône country is in a sense a cross-roads cooking . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | I would now like to turn my attention to something which is in a sense a mirror image of what we have been considering . |
30 | Erotic rapture , it transpires , is in a sense a reptilian condition . |