Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a meal is consumed in a non-preferred location the dog is praised lavishly and offered a bone or a chunk of beef chew . |
| 2 | In a following question the SCI ( Scotland ) also admitted that in translating recommendations into a written report the point was often lost ; the discussions with the school and perhaps the LEA were the major reporting function . |
| 3 | In a final test the rats , although hungry , proved unwilling to consume the food . |
| 4 | In a final statement the ministers expressed " deep concern " over the conflicts in Yugoslavia and in Nagorny-Karabakh and Nakhichevan , on the southern edge of the former Soviet Union and close to Turkey , a NATO member . |
| 5 | In a final chapter the editor evaluated the experience against the objectives identified by the Herbert Royal Commission : ‘ administrative efficiency and the health of representative government ’ ( Rhodes 1972:457 — 8 ) . |
| 6 | Furnished in a modern style the hotel is airconditioned and has a lift . |
| 7 | In a healthy organism the latter , as a member of the cellular society , endeavours in a way to maintain a natural equilibrium between the cell 's vibrational frequencies and external environmental EM influences . |
| 8 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 9 | In a healthy adult the amount lost in this way is negligible . |
| 10 | In a curious way the planners welcomed these developments seizing upon Government directives requiring the clustering of houses in order to economise on services , simply as a means of defending both their own Department and their backing of the housing policy . |
| 11 | There are two problems with the type of stack found in the KDF9 computer : ( a ) it is of fixed size , so that the programmer or compiler has to take care to keep within its bounds ; and ( b ) in a multiprogramming environment the stack has to be emptied and refilled at each process switch ; the latter could be done on the KDF9 only one element at a time ( although suitable stack dump and restore instructions could be envisaged ) , and the problem was solved on that computer by providing multiple nesting stores . |
| 12 | In a centralised system the dull and docile will always go along with new policies , but no change can be properly interpreted or adequately sustained without support from active thinkers and innovators at different levels in a system . |
| 13 | If a theory like this were available , we would have reintroduced in a roundabout way the possibility of a conditional theory of justification . |
| 14 | In a roundabout way the defence of consent is preserved by cll. 14(4) and 45(c) . |
| 15 | In a traditional plant the engine , transmission , and axles are placed onto ‘ the track ’ — a chain-driven series of platforms which move continuously at a fixed pace while the operators work on the cars — and the painted body is lowered onto them . |
| 16 | In a dark age the pacifist 's role was to bear witness against barbarism , or , as Auden was to put it ‘ to show an affirming flame ’ : |
| 17 | In a specific instance the author discovered a footnote in a county history ( 1774 ) describing how stained glass in a local church was falling into decay . |
| 18 | Travelling in a clockwise direction the route proceeds from Cat Nab , Saltburn along part of the Cleveland Way and along the cliff edge down to the beach at Cattersty Sands . |
| 19 | These are activities that offer everyone in a varied class the chance to share a common mathematical experience , yet to work at a level appropriate to each individual . |
| 20 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |
| 21 | It was in a literal sense the ‘ last resort ’ ( dernier ressort ) . |
| 22 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |
| 23 | She rounded a corner quickly ; in a tiny estuary the small boats of the eel pickers were congregated . |
| 24 | In a digital computer the ‘ lowest level ’ of language is simply a string of binary digits 1 and 0 that is isomorphic to the states of the machine 's registers . |
| 25 | It is also now analysing for the first time in a quantitative way the changing social and cultural characteristics of small towns . |
| 26 | I am assured by a rather unkempt doctor of my casual acquaintance that this disease — which neatly combines as in a two-thonged whip the miseries of arthritis and psoriasis — is a classic ‘ stress ’ illness , visible , painful , incurable and distasteful to others . |
| 27 | We are now in a position to understand in a simple way the functioning of laws and theories as predictive and explanatory devices in science . |
| 28 | It is a vision which in a simple way the RE we do in schools can offer to pupils . |
| 29 | True it is that in a simple case the investigation of a suspect 's criminality may well terminate at the moment of charging , but often this will not be so . |
| 30 | Thus in a simple action the past tense of narrative is transformed into the present and the presence of drama . |