Example sentences of "in an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Magellan spacecraft launched in May 1989 [ see p. 36674 ] was successfully placed in an elliptical orbit around the planet Venus on Aug. 10 . |
| 2 | It was built in an Italianate style with no concessions to the East at all , in red brick with stone columns . |
| 3 | Now manager Trevor Anderson looks set to step up his interest in an all-or-nothing bid for League title glory . |
| 4 | It 's an old picture , ’ he added in an incompetent explanation of something she had n't asked . |
| 5 | Rodriguez said it in Spanish , in an obstinate tone of voice that suggested finality . |
| 6 | In nearly all the Spanish-speaking world it is almost axiomatic that any half-significant event , any battle , revolution or skirmish is memorialized in an extravagant confection of marble and gilt , with crosses , acanthus leaves , Castilian doggerel and an invocation of the deity . |
| 7 | From then until his death in 1099 at the age of fifty-six , El Cid fought a series of dazzling campaigns against the Moors , taking the fortified city of Valencia and making it an impregnable fortress against his enemies When news of his death reached the rest of Spain , men and women wept openly in the streets , tearing their clothing and lacerating their cheeks in an extravagant display of mourning . |
| 8 | She did not want to go , but lived in an unmodernised house with a coal fire as the main source of heat . |
| 9 | Initially retinoic acid inhibits the appearance of markers in the r1–3 region , such as Krox-20 , and expands those of the r4 in an anterior direction to the midbrain . |
| 10 | At 8.0d.p.c. , retinoic acid causes an expansion of the r4 stripe in an anterior direction into the midbrain , and at 8.5d.p.c. there is also expression in neural crest cells migrating from this broadened domain ( Fig. 1 g' , h' ) . |
| 11 | XSoft claims InConcert is the first product of its kind to manage people and work process in an organisation-wide setting with multivendor software and platform compatibility . |
| 12 | Mr. Wilson : I fully understand that the Minister hopes that one bid will emerge and perhaps that would be the best answer , but if one bid does not emerge , will the Minister maintain the right to dictate that either only one bid will emerge or that he will condemn those involved in an alternative bid to effective disqualification ? |
| 13 | This relationship is illustrated in an alternative fashion in Figure 6 . |
| 14 | Although she did not deny that he was handsome and in many ways attractive , she could not envisage herself in an intimate relationship with him . |
| 15 | He attended the University of Houston , Texas , in an honest pursuit for a diploma in recreation . |
| 16 | I would respectfully agree with his description , in relation to dishonest actions , of appropriation as involving an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights , but I believe that the less aggressive definition of appropriation which I have put forward fits the word as used in an honest sense in section 2(1) as well as elsewhere in the Act . |
| 17 | If nothing else it will give the landladies of Aldeburgh a chance to turn in an honest penny at a time when holidaymakers are few and far between in Suffolk . |
| 18 | When in Washington both Houses , in an extraordinary mark of respect , asked him to give the opening prayer as they assembled for the fifty-fifth Congress . ) |
| 19 | In an extraordinary passage towards the end of the book , amplified in discussion at Marxism 90 in a debate specifically convened to discuss Modernism and Postmodernism , Callinicos described his experience of walking around an art gallery : ‘ I have often been struck by the tedium that overcomes one while walking through a gallery of twentieth-century painting arranged in chronological order as one moves from the excitement of the early part of the century to the desperate and all too frequently sterile iconoclasm of recent artists ' ( p. 161 ) . |
| 20 | Honey magazine recognized this and acted on it in an extraordinary way with the launch of the ‘ Honey boutiques ’ in the major conurbations , so that the groovy styles portrayed in the magazine could be had by hitherto deprived readers in whatever part of the sticks they had the misfortune to live , with no more trouble than a Saturday day return fare . |
| 21 | The documents blame the firm 's predicament on increasing overheads , large payments to outgoing partners , and the problems of managing the business in recession , resulting in an extraordinary level of ‘ bad debts , unbilled work in progress and overdue debts ’ . |
| 22 | Another Lassus pupil at Munich , Leonhard Lechner ( c. 1553–1606 ) , later a convert to Protestantism , began his career with Latin church music in his master 's style , composed a great tri-choral , 24-part epithalamium , ‘ Quid chaos ’ ( 1582 ) in the Venetian manner , and bade farewell to life in an extraordinary set of fifteen Spruche von Leben und Tod — the dramatic power and profound emotion of which , however , he had already anticipated in ‘ O Tod , du bist ein bittre Gallen ’ , one of his Newe teutsche Lieder ( Nuremberg , 1582 ) . |
| 23 | But the ill-fated journey was captured for posterity in an extraordinary collection of photographs . |
| 24 | You 're quite right that it 's been dealt with in an extraordinary number of soaps because , in Brookside , Tracey Corkhill has had an abortion and the story 's been tied in with fatherhood — with Barry , her lover , losing out on fatherhood . |
| 25 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 26 | The group 's investments in Berisford and Hillsdown have been further written down resulting in an extraordinary charge of £31m . |
| 27 | The early redemption will result in an extraordinary charge of about $9m after tax against second quarter figures . |
| 28 | THE POLITICAL and military crisis gripping Bosnia-Hercegovina was played out yesterday in an extraordinary debate between Muslim and Serbian commanders visiting a shelled Muslim quarter of Sarajevo , writes Michael Montgomery in Sarajevo . |
| 29 | It is memorably expressed in an Islamic mode in the famous sacred tradition ( hadith qudsi ) which makes God say that when one of his human servants turns to him : |
| 30 | The common law can develop in an evolutionary way in the light of the experience developed in the regulatory system . |