Example sentences of "in [adj] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most parishes the churchwardens held a stock in the church box ; in some a guild or fraternity of lay people maintained a stock of its own . |
| 2 | I suppose they 'd all gone in half a minute but it seemed an eternity of fascination and fear to a cringing youth . |
| 3 | This could make one gram of tritium in half a day and as a byproduct give back some of the electrical power — one megawatt — from the fusion processes involved . |
| 4 | Hugh hesitated and then did so , undoing the neck just enough to stuff in half a loaf and some smoked meat , giving no-one a chance to see what else he had in it — not that anyone cared . |
| 5 | He once locked two visiting American soldiers inside the cathedral one evening and promised to come to let them out in half an hour but forgot to come . |
| 6 | It is a report and valuation for mortgage and insurance assessment which is usually done in half an hour and consists of a general look at the property to see that it actually exists as described , and is not in a state of collapse or major disrepair . |
| 7 | In the old days he could 've swallowed a six-pack in half an hour and then gone out and walked a tightrope . |
| 8 | I would like to wake up in half an hour and see people passing by in the street . |
| 9 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 10 | He said , but the exams in half an hour and she said that 's right . |
| 11 | Well I 've cooked him one , cos it 's no good if he waltzes in in half an hour and says his hungry . |
| 12 | We should be back in half an hour or so . ’ |
| 13 | They should be here in half an hour or so . ’ |
| 14 | The only certainty , she reflected ruefully , soaking in fragrant warm water up to her chin , was that in half an hour or so she 'd have to find the courage to face Roman again , possibly over the breakfast-table . |
| 15 | He should be along in half an hour or so . " |
| 16 | ‘ Shall I ring and see if they 've got a table in half an hour or so ? ’ |
| 17 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 18 | Then they want you to run it for two year , have a mobile home , and if you could prove it 's viable after two years , then there would be a reminder and we 'll consider giving you permission for a house , otherwise , everybody could just put up one tun poly tunnel in half an acre and get a house , could n't they ? |
| 19 | Cultural marginality , which encompasses the culture of poverty concept ( Lewis 1966 ) , has been largely discredited because of the implication that traits such as apathy and passivity , which are the hallmarks of the culture of poverty , are very strongly imbedded in those who grow up in such a culture and therefore prevent them responding positively if opportunities arise . |
| 20 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 21 | One solution which has been suggested would be to apportion the loss between plaintiff and defendant in such a case but this has been rejected as impracticable by the Law Reform Committee . |
| 22 | The ICAEW rules do state that we should , under no various circumstances , promote or seek to promote our services in such a way or such an extent as to amount to harassment of a prospective client . |
| 23 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 24 | Well I 'm very grateful to Mr for raising this in such a way and for the members ' contribution . |
| 25 | To be kissed in such a way and caressed in such a way , with so much love , by a man she adored . |
| 26 | Conversely , while lacking those powers an asexual bud , or even a severed flatworm fragment , can do what an unfertilized ovum can not : namely , produce a whole organism without interactive collaboration with any other part ; this power being credited by Darwin to the presence in such a bud or fragment , indeed in any healing flesh , of material determining growth for all the parts of the whole organism . |
| 27 | Fish can spend the summer in such a container but should be removed for the winter . |
| 28 | ALADI officials were reported to have stated that they hoped Mexico would participate in such a scheme but that they would proceed without it . |
| 29 | BA has never engaged in such a campaign and the allegations made against us to the contrary are totally untrue . |
| 30 | Charles could picture the smugness with which Alex Household would have sat in such a sanctuary and discussed the frenetic activities of the Taunton company . |