Example sentences of "in a [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SIGNIFICANT step was taken at the weekend towards the development of eastern Europe 's capital market , as representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development discussed making the bank 's first domestic bond issue in a former communist country with Hungarian investors and finance ministry officials . |
| 2 | The executive committee of the Liberal International met in Warsaw on Nov. 30-Dec.1 for its first gathering in a former communist country . |
| 3 | BRITISH expertise and working practices will help modernise the banking system in a former Soviet republic following a fact-finding mission to Liverpool by two Ukrainians . |
| 4 | Ask anyone who 's lived in a former British colony — English culture has been imposed on and been absorbed by countries on every continent on this earth . |
| 5 | Before she set off the following morning , she 'd visited the Maison du Vin , which was housed in a former medieval monastery . |
| 6 | But perhaps the most valuable work achieved by CNES in the 1960s lay in co-ordinating the development of the French space industry : in 1964 the decision was taken to build a launch site at Kourou in French Guyana ; in November 1965 the Diamant A rocket was successfully launched from an Algerian site — the swansong of a military programme based in a former French territory . |
| 7 | The foundry operates in a former Turkish bathhouse roofed with nine ventilated domes , where , in deep gloom lit only from the dome vents , two teenage boys and an old woman produce all sizes of bells and ecclesiastical brassware . |
| 8 | In a one-to-many binary relationship , where the relationship linking the entities is the carter of attributes , these migrate to the member record and the relationship disappears . |
| 9 | Where the growing season in short , a successful stratagem of many plants is to remain small , grow short flowering stems , and invest their small savings of energy in a few well-endowed seeds . |
| 10 | The slopes which produce these prized vines are generally east-facing , but in a few specific cases they are exposed in northern and southern directions . |
| 11 | The range of possibilities for the pace and form of change can be seen in a few specific industries in each of the three sectors : national resource processing , manufacturing and services . |
| 12 | Moreover , large-scale manufacture tended to be concentrated in a few industrial areas , of which St Petersburg , Moscow , and the major cities of Poland , the Ukraine and the South were the most significant , and the plants themselves tended to be markedly larger than in the West . |
| 13 | Crabbe , in The Village , describes the heathland also , in a few savage lines . |
| 14 | In the same year 20 per cent of the population was concentrated in a few metropolitan areas each with a population of over half a million . |
| 15 | He strode past her , crossing the gravel in a few long strides to open the door of his car . |
| 16 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 17 | The most enduring band of their time now seem like a memory bound up in a few classic singles and a reputation for ‘ nuttiness ’ . |
| 18 | In this section the facility of the Laplace transformation technique will be demonstrated by applying it to find the transient response in a few illustrative cases . |
| 19 | You can tell how lively they are by the fact that they work not in great white north-lit drawing-offices , like the more fashionable and established groups , but in a few cramped rooms on the fourth floor of an Edwardian commercial block , above a tobacconist and an employment agency , mostly looking out on an airwell . |
| 20 | You should n't have to remove the power supply unit or unplug any cables to slot in a few extra megabytes of RAM . |
| 21 | or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies |
| 22 | In a few limited cases we " can actually try things out in the laboratory or with an engineering model . |
| 23 | A plant could in theory ‘ specialize ’ in a few generalist dispersers , just as a frugivore could specialize on a plant dispersed by many other species . |
| 24 | The area surrounding Monboddo must have contained an aerodrome at some stage , perhaps during wartime , as evidenced in a few remaining Nissen huts , now filled with old packing cases and pallets , and undistinguished , domestic timber artefacts of all sorts . |
| 25 | Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other . |
| 26 | The first exercise can now be taken further : establishing the figure in a few choice lines . |
| 27 | The first exercise can now be taken further : establishing the figure in a few choice lines . |
| 28 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 29 | It says avoidance of the substance causing the allergy is the first line of treatment followed by drugs , where possible , to relieve symptoms and by desensitisation in a few selected cases . |
| 30 | Due to the pilot nature of the scheme it is only operating in a few selected areas initially , which is why your parish has not been contacted . |