Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said . |
| 2 | This means that when one is treating a patient with homoeopathy , a substance is used which produces in a healthy person symptoms and signs similar to those presented by that patient . |
| 3 | The extensive fluvial environments with freshwater lakes , lush vegetation and thriving fauna ( Fig. 2 ) could have existed only in a moderate climate conditions with adequate humidity . |
| 4 | When it stopped in a remote area police pounced and arrested the robbers as they off-loaded the cargo . |
| 5 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visible form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 6 | Throughout his control of the Elmswell estate Best also kept a memorandum book , in which he recorded in a haphazard fashion things he wished to remember : the wages agreed with servants ; debts owed and owing ; the number of sheep in the shepherd 's care . |
| 7 | Mary Reveley may be tempted to run Cab On Target in a weak-looking Rovacabin Novices ' Chase on Saturday 's Ascot card . |
| 8 | Schools can do much to foster good behaviour and attainments and … even in a disadvantaged area schools can be a force for good . |
| 9 | In a shifting timescale circumstances are narrated in flashback , by the accused — and by the victim , Sonny von Bulow ( Glenn Close ) , irreversibly comatose on life-support , years after an insulin dose of fatal proportions . |
| 10 | In a comprehensive school attitudes conveying sympathy , understanding and concern for the pupils are fundamental . |
| 11 | In a strange environment peoples ' basic needs become even more important . |
| 12 | In a capitalist economy goods , and the labour power , raw materials and machinery used to produce them , are given a monetary value . |
| 13 | In a seminal article Professors Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster showed that the answer is ‘ No ! ’ |
| 14 | In a similar vein pupils themselves can be asked to act out various parts in order to explore contemporary feelings . |
| 15 | Climbers ' eyes tend to be drawn to the cleanest and most direct route up a rock face , while in a similar way walkers piece together peaks and ridges to create their own ‘ direct ’ routes — albeit ( usually ) on a more horizontal plane . |
| 16 | In the event , women 's proportionately larger brain was taken as evidence of their childlike physiology , just as in a similar manner women 's recognised capacity to read faster and remember more was interpreted as shallowness . |
| 17 | The latest results from Bristol show the pattern of respiration in a normal baby changes dramatically when the room is warm . |
| 18 | He claims that in a recent $20-billion arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia , a billion dollars ended up being shared by two senior Saudis . |
| 19 | But this of course is an exaggeration ; it exists in the still-literate public — the customers , used in its correct sense , of the booksellers , and those who are in a real sense custodians of England 's literary culture , the staff and students of the Universities and large copyright libraries . |
| 20 | Interactive computer programs can present in a powerful way ideas , facts and basic techniques . |
| 21 | Using language in a sexist manner stereotypes women . |
| 22 | Thus , a secretary working in a carpet factory ( code 438 ) will be coded differently from the same grade of secretary working in a neighbouring household textiles factory ( 455 ) . |
| 23 | In a changing environment things are different . |
| 24 | Before using a UK PPL in a ZK-registered aircraft visitors must obtain a New Zealand licence validation . |
| 25 | Piggott fractured a collarbone , two ribs and suffered bruising around his right eye after his high-speed fall in a million dollar Breeders Cup race just three days ago . |
| 26 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visual form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 27 | The puppet pigs with the squeaky voices who captured the imagination of a generation of youngsters are appearing in a new ITV children 's series on puppetry . |
| 28 | As she and one other laid their hands on me , I leant on their faith , and I began to speak in a new language words of praise to God . |
| 29 | The final scene , with its tear-jerking hospital-bed supplications for forgiveness , is neither more nor less than the ‘ I love you ’ , ‘ I love you too Momma ’ curtain-line that has become mandatory in a thousand soap operas . |
| 30 | The tall man who spoke to her through the barely opened driver 's window was casually dressed in a well-cut tweed sports jacket and green drill trousers . |