Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lunch time drinkers in Hereford say if a pint of cider did hit the two fifty mark , they 'd simply stop drinking it . |
| 2 | Police in Chelmsford believe that a robbery in a park toilet may be linked to other crimes of violence in the area over the last few months . |
| 3 | Of course , you have to wait until the nut has warmed up to savour it , but experiments are currently in progress to determine whether a frozen and thawed Brazil remains easy to deal with . |
| 4 | A significant court ruling on the subject of sexual harassment was handed down on April 16 , when a judge in Fukuoka ruled that a publishing company had violated the rights of a former female employee who had felt obliged to leave her job after allegations of alcoholism and sexual promiscuity against her . |
| 5 | Reports in mid-June said that a group of religious conservatives , including the country 's most senior religious figure , Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Baz , had signed a 12-point petition in late April asking King Fahd to create a " consultative council " to deal with " internal and external affairs " [ see also p. 38166 ] , which should be free of " any pressure that might affect its responsibilities " . |
| 6 | What sets the Pearce-Hall ( 1980 ) model apart is its prediction that a decline in associability occurs when a stimulus accurately predicts its consequences and that inconsistent consequences will attenuate or prevent the loss . |
| 7 | If more shakes are needed then a gradual increase in potency occurs until a saturation point arrives and presumably only intensification takes place . |
| 8 | THE LATEST controversy over political interference in research surfaced when a Sunday newspaper reported that the Prime Minister had personally pulled the plug on Department of Health funding for a survey of sexual habits to help scientists to predict the spread of Aids . |
| 9 | The Banjul agreement in December proposed that a national conference be convened within 60 days to discuss the establishment of an interim administration . |
| 10 | Numbers in brackets indicate that a corporate body or its activities are discussed in the document concerned . |
| 11 | ‘ Since the production and circulation of commodities are the general prerequisites of the capitalist mode of production , division of labour in manufacture requires that a division of labour within society should have already attained a certain degree of development ’ ( 1976 , p. 473 ) . |
| 12 | Yet the editorial in Nature said that a ‘ thermonuclear ( my italics ) reaction has now been made ’ and the article was headlined ‘ Controlled Release of Thermonuclear Energy ’ . |
| 13 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 14 | The reliance on " intuitive observation " in selection means that a heavy burden falls on the reader 's training in the art of alert reading , and of responding to linguistic and other cues . |
| 15 | The Labour Party Conference in October agreed that a meeting of League branches should be held " to discuss the future of the League " and , early in the following year , most of the national machinery was restored and a Youth Officer appointed . |
| 16 | However , in December 1967 a review of housing in Derry showed that a total of 4,420 ‘ units of accommodation ’ had been provided — 2,170 by the corporation , 1,745 by the NIHT , and 505 by private enterprise . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the Court in terms says that a worker who decides not to transfer deprives him- or herself of the protection of the Directive . |
| 18 | Recent work by Williams ( 1982 ) in analysing a dynamic and important debate about the nature of consumption in France suggests that a century ago there was a far more balanced view of changes in the relationship between consumption and production as historical transformation than exists today . |
| 19 | ( a ) Lord Roskill in Lambie said that a charge under s.15(1) would have succeeded more easily than the actual charge under s.16(1) , but the act was the same for both offences . |
| 20 | The English and Welsh , who look back on the year 1870 ( Forster 's Education Act ) as the effective starting point of a state system , were not the first in Europe to realise that a literate workforce would be needed to meet the ever more complex demands of industry . |
| 21 | This in turn implies that a more wholistic view of the business system is available to those areas of management seeking to adapt company operations to the prevailing market conditions . |
| 22 | However it does mean that the additional information can be removed from the look-up tree , which in turn means that a compression method can now be applied to the tree , such as utilising a directed acyclic word graph ( section 3.2.5 and section 3.3.3 ) . |
| 23 | That was until four overgrown , talking terrapins with a fine line in Valley Speak and a craving for pizza turned Barron into the director of the ‘ most successful independent film of all time , by at least $60m ’ . |
| 24 | An impressive body of research in psychogerontology demonstrates that a good deal of ill health and dependency even in very old age is induced by society 's expectation that age brings infirmity and dependence . |
| 25 | The absence of intermittent hormonal stimulation in men implies that a similar underlying genetic defect might not give rise to malignant disease until later in life . |
| 26 | On Aug. 10 the RJO had delivered a statement to a news agency in Beirut stating that a US hostage would be released within 72 hours . |
| 27 | There have been no studies yet in diabetics showing that a group with really good glycaemic control has a lower incidence of coronary artery disease than a well-matched control group . |
| 28 | In order to test whether a student is using such a hierarchy correctly , the marker can make an eye-catching change to an element of the hierarchy ( e.g. section headings to be red ) and observe whether the document changes in the way it should . |
| 29 | The project focuses on developing child-centered techniques suited to 3 year olds , not simply with the aim of pushing down the age of acquisition but in order to test whether a radical change occurs in the types of variable which elicit competent inferences . |
| 30 | Under the 1977 Act , in order to decide whether a term or notice is reasonable , particular attention is paid to : |