Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A TEENAGER was repeatedly stabbed by a masked man in a busy area in broad daylight a year ago . |
| 2 | Assume in each case a PSBR of £1 billion . |
| 3 | In each case a working relationship had to be established between employment and education sectors , not without difficulty in certain areas where a lack of trust and respect between potential partners served only to highlight the depth of the cultural divide . |
| 4 | The only thing that unites these three arrangements is that in each case a minority class rules and takes the surplus away from the producers . |
| 5 | Such exchange might take place by using money , by bartering for other goods , or as gifts , but in each case a change in ownership of the goods takes place . |
| 6 | In each case a multiplier will be applied having regard to such matters as : ( 1 ) the size of the firm in question ; ( 2 ) the personal attributes of the partners ; ( 3 ) the type of practice ( specialised or general etc ) ; ( 4 ) the locality of the firm ; ( 5 ) the security of tenure of the firm at its premises ; or ( 6 ) the firm 's profit trend . |
| 7 | Valuation reports must be sent at least monthly ( whereas in non-derivative portfolios only a six-monthly statement is required ) although in each case a customer may advise the firm in writing that he wishes to receive them less frequently . |
| 8 | In each case a number of issues arose , some of which were resolved , as they attempted to modify their classroom practice . |
| 9 | In each case a corporation has its reputation , separate from its members , capable of being adversely affected by defamatory statements and which it is entitled to protect by recourse to an action for libel . |
| 10 | These rules include provision for the calculation of a quota of votes which if gained by a candidate will ensure election and this has the effect of producing in each constituency a result in seats which is as nearly proportional as possible to the opinions of the voters . |
| 11 | in each eye-cave a chrysalis |
| 12 | In each painting a conjurer has overstepped his mark . |
| 13 | Even in 1995 , the two direct trains in each direction a day between the North-East and the continent will follow the tortuous North London line , circuiting the capital via Kensington and Clapham Junction . |
| 14 | In each application a source file is interpreted in real time . |
| 15 | In each room a chandelier hung from the ceiling , of tarnished brass in the dining room , a cascade of prisms in the drawing room , in hall and study Italianate glass tubes twisted snake-like amid false candles . |
| 16 | In each place a crowd of men in blue overalls , each with a Gauloise stuck in the corner of his mouth , stared into the mirror behind the bar at the reflection of any women who braved their domain . |
| 17 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 18 | This place must have stood here like this for all those years , and I imagined it retaining always this season , a pocket of perpetual spring — almost a source of spring from which the frozen bare earth in other places could be revivified , as those old maps depict in each corner a Wind holding in his bursting cheeks the force of the wind everywhere . |
| 19 | In each section a decision will be made about the parameters of the model based on the experience of the systems analysed in Chapter 2 . |
| 20 | The marriage primarily affects the parties thereto ; but in the second degree it may be an object of interest with a near relative , and in that sense a benefit to him . |
| 21 | For the group of readers interested in that subject a state of stock exhaustion tends to be reached very quickly . |
| 22 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 23 | Those who find in that formulation a description of authentic Co-operation will be content with his verdict . |
| 24 | Until 1910 the chief sponsor of the union was the Liberal Party , which saw political capital to be made out of organizing farm workers in the Tory rural strongholds , but in that year a strike in the Norfolk village of St Faith 's evoked accusations of a Liberal sell-out and provoked the membership to cut its ties with the Liberal Party . |
| 25 | Then later in that year a composer already associated with the Barberini , the great monodist Luigi Rossi , was invited to Paris ; the best Italian singers were engaged , Torelli prepared expensive spectacles , and Rossi 's L'Orfeo was given before a small and highly select audience on 2 March 1647 . |
| 26 | In that year a lady and a little girl ( presumably the daughter ) fell from an otherwise deserted station platform into the path of an oncoming train ; the station master on seeing the incident attempted to rescue them both but was only able to save the girl . |
| 27 | In 1731 he was appointed to minister in Tunbridge Wells at the meeting house in Little Mount Sion , and in that year a tract attributed to him — Divine Benevolence : Or , An Attempt to prove that the Principal End Of the Divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of his Creatures — was published by John Noon . |
| 28 | In that year a family earning 18s. per week was paying 10.2 per cent of this small income in indirect taxes ( 7. 1% ) , National Health ( 2% ) and Unemployment Insurance contributions ( 1.1% ) These percentages declined as incomes rose . |
| 29 | Until 1880 oil was the only illuminant in use , but in that year a number of West Coast vehicles were lighted by compressed shale oil gas or , as it was commonly known , Pope 's gas . |
| 30 | In that case a shortfall in one instalment will normally only justify a rejection of that one instalment . |