Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to realize the possibility that he was being taken for a ride , that he was the stooge in a deadly game in which he was not being allowed to play a part . |
| 2 | Furthermore , my passport was lost in a postal strike in France , and the wheelbarrow was not yet ready , Hawker Siddeley having been hampered by staff shortage and technical snags . |
| 3 | MARTIAL arts expert Tony Carter beat international competition to win the top prize in a prestigious contest in Sweden . |
| 4 | The fights apparently took place every Sunday morning in a Muslim cemetery in Old Delhi : ‘ Bahot acha event hai , ’ said Balvinder . |
| 5 | It makes its road debut in a revised Griffith in March next year . |
| 6 | Do they keep it in cash in a piggy bank , or in a current account in a real bank ; or do they put it in some interest bearing time account ; or do they buy stocks and shares or government bonds ; or do they buy some physical asset such as a car or property ? |
| 7 | In fact , the location of the traditional Chinese points is given in a variable manner in different acupuncture books . |
| 8 | The most serious problems over credit use — sometimes an extreme manifestation of one of the general problems , such as the relationship between ignorance , high-cost credit use , and over-commitment ; sometimes something quite distinct — are too rare to show up in a quantifiable way in a sample survey such as ours . |
| 9 | And in his opinion that meant sending it all the way to Sotheby 's whose rural saleroom in a stately home in Billingshurst , West Sussex , has made a speciality in recent years of sales of garden furniture , fittings and statuary . |
| 10 | Low-level exposure to lead during early childhood is associated with delays in neurophysical development during the first seven years of life , concludes a study of 494 children in a lead-smelting community in South Australia . |
| 11 | In a non-randomised study in Ipswich among a group of 209 diabetics discharged to general practitioner care with agreed standards of medical follow up only 25% of patients had had their urine tested or blood glucose value estimated by their general practitioner in the previous two years . |
| 12 | ( In the pursuit of performance-indicators , publication in ‘ refereed journals ’ counts for much , though I am not sure if I have ever appeared in a refereed journal in my life . ) |
| 13 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 14 | But he added that voters had fallen for the ‘ Labour lie ’ that voting Labour would result in a Labour victory in the UK . |
| 15 | For instance , Lord Wrenbury , in a legal judgment in 1925 , defined income tax as being that which is ‘ within the Act , taxable under the Act ’ . |
| 16 | Here were two cups that had survived 1989 , smashed at last in a final appointment in Samarra . |
| 17 | Usually the proposed adjustments are checked outside the meeting by the central team and recirculated for quick comment before publication in a final form in which they can be used both by the Modular Admissions Committee ( MAC ) to control enrolment and by faculties and departments as the base for resource management . |
| 18 | The alternative is a gene's-eye view , suggested by Samuel Butler 's famous remark that a chicken is simply the egg 's way of producing another egg , and developed in a modern context in Richard Dawkins 's book , The Selfish Gene . |
| 19 | In a classic experiment in the 1930s , J. Stalnaker and E. Riddle asked subjects to recite a Longfellow poem , The Village Smith , that they had learned years before in school . |
| 20 | They were eventually to settle more or less permanently in a pleasant apartment in the Kastanienallee — ‘ Chestnut Avenue ’ . |
| 21 | He believes England are in a healthy state in terms of players but quietly , and quite rightly , points out that there is always more to learn . |
| 22 | So it is that we must also support voluntary action and volunteering as essential in a healthy democracy in a civilised society . |
| 23 | Grey seals basked on boulders in a flat calm in Scott 's ‘ inland bay ’ , close to the ruins of the historic castle . |
| 24 | They stayed in a Georgian house in the Crescent at Filey . |
| 25 | Until the mid or even the late 1950s these comparisons were made mainly in a discrete way in the belief that advantages shifted from time to time between one country and another [ Postan , 1967 ] . |
| 26 | They took some photographs , left a record of their ascent in a sealed tin in a cairn , and set off back down again . |
| 27 | burning pet waste , or placing it in a sealed bag in a suitable container . |
| 28 | She was there again when I helped in a feeding centre in Seoul in Korea , when the people came from broken down shacks once a day to get soup and rice . |
| 29 | DENNIS CONNER 'S hopes of reaching the America 's Cup defenders ' finals suffered a further setback when his Stars & Stripes lost to revamped America in a close race in a shifty wind on smooth water . |
| 30 | Having explored some aspects of being a principal carer , and the cared for elderly person in a close relationship in a family , we need to look in more detail at the character of informal care networks , where there may be more people involved in a less intense way . |