Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Middle East was the most successful region and a three-fold increase in activity is in prospect there in 1993 . |
| 2 | Increased oil revenues in 1990 [ see p. 38071 ] accounting for a rise in foreign exchange allotments for several industries , were reported to have made possible a three-fold increase in car production , announced by the Ministry of Heavy Industries on Aug. 6 . |
| 3 | As for London , a three-fold increase in tonnage cleared did not lead very quickly to a solution to the severe congestion of the Pool , on which was concentrated a cargo handling facility employing 120,000 men . |
| 4 | For Abelard there is a transforming energy in love which can change people . |
| 5 | Hence the enormous success of Oldham , a hilly settlement in East Lancashire with considerable reserves of coal , situated only 11km ( 7 miles ) from Manchester , the greatest yarn market in the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 6 | THE RUSSIAN and Ukrainian Presidents struggling for power over the Black Sea Fleet may be pleasing their nationalist countrymen , but the sailors at the fleet 's Crimean headquarters feel only shame and humiliation at the spectacle of a historic navy in chaos . |
| 7 | Smile pleasantly and show a real interest in the customer 's needs , and you 'll probably get a smile and a pleasant response in return . |
| 8 | I am always loth to leave Middle Washfold : unlike many cave surrounds , it is friendly , a pleasant study in green and white . |
| 9 | Some say cooking in aluminium foil presents a risk of the metal depositing in the food , not a pleasant prospect in view of the evidence of aluminium poisoning resulting in premature senility or Alzheimer 's Disease . |
| 10 | But he was studying what he wanted to know , and would become a rich farmer in time . |
| 11 | Macedonian religious and cultural life continued to flourish under the Byzantines , with Greek and Bulgarian influences fusing with the original Slav elements to produce a rich tradition in literature , wall paintings and wood carving . |
| 12 | The regional paper for West Asia presented to the UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development ( UNCSTD ) , held in Vienna in August 1979 said : ‘ Though there exists a rich heritage in design and construction from Hadhramaut to Nubia , there is very little concern for these technologies … these beautiful structures decorate travel literature . ’ |
| 13 | to a rich boy in gold harness . |
| 14 | Blessed are you when you suffer insults and persecution and cowardliness of every kind from my face exult and be glad for you have a rich reward in heaven in the same way as they persecuted the prophets who bore you . |
| 15 | In the history of censorship in public libraries such opportunists are often local politicians and the local and national press , who feed and sustain one another with a rich diet in prurience , bigotry and alarmist politics , all in the name of the protection of a way of life and cherished values . |
| 16 | The postmodern obsession with ‘ surfaces ’ could also link to the more general and growing indeterminacy of the middle classes who need to put on a Goffman-like front in order to impose their ‘ nominative powers ’ . |
| 17 | The Group has a reserve base in excess of one billion barrels of oil equivalent , principally in these two areas . |
| 18 | ( d ) Unsuccessful attempts to persuade other teachers to give up a reserve lesson in order to supervise the library . |
| 19 | With the help of outplacement consultants and Chartac ( phone : 071–628 7060 ) , which runs regular seminars and one to one discussions , Tanya is optimistic that she will find a job in a medium-sized company in commerce and industry , as number two or three to the financial director . |
| 20 | Thus , the court has refused to imply a term that a landlord entitled to recover the cost of insurance from his tenant is obliged to choose the cheapest method of insuring ( Bandar Property Holdings Ltd v Darwen ( JS ) ( Successors ) Ltd [ 1968 ] 2 All ER 305 ) or that the tenant is under an obligation not to use the demised property for an immoral purpose ( Burfort Financial Investments Ltd v Chotard ( 1976 ) 239 EGH 891 ) or that the landlord is entitled to interest on a retrospective increase in rent ( Trust House Forte Albany Hotels Ltd v Daejan Investments Ltd ( 1980 ) 256 EG 915 ) . |
| 21 | KOONS sees himself as a direct descendant of the Baroque — ‘ Bernini and stuff like that ’ — a florid exuberance in revolt against all elitism , emotional coldness and stuffed shirts . |
| 22 | According to a member of the Lebanese Security Services they were transferred to Libya , where the RCF had its headquarters , and on Jan. 8 the Phalangist Radio Free Lebanon reported that Walid Khaled , the RCF spokesman in Lebanon , said they had been " moved to a friendly country in preparation " ; on Jan. 12 Sa'id was paroled and sent to Libya , and the hostages were handed over to the Belgian government . |
| 23 | The girl smiled shyly up at the big man behind the wheel and got a friendly grin in return . |
| 24 | Greek theatres had a depressed area in front of the stage for dancers who leapt about during and between acts and scenery changes . |
| 25 | She found him surprisingly ordinary , a solemn-faced boy in plain , clerkly brown clothes , long-legged and angular like everybody 's young brother , with a fierce , cleft chin and huge , attentive hazel eyes . |
| 26 | We might indulge in ‘ feeling guilty ’ about having a lazy Sunday in bed , splashing out on new clothes , making love , eating a large slice of chocolate gateau with lashings of cream , and other completely harmless and enjoyable experiences ! |
| 27 | Each stage is characterized by a simultaneous increase in abstraction and particularization , which are held in tension with one another , and each is taken to present greater difficulties for the subject attempting to resolve these into its own development . |
| 28 | Although silk prices fell after 1925 the additional cash income still cushioned farmers against the effects of a simultaneous fall in rice prices . |
| 29 | In the second half of the year the major Japanese banks were already concentrating more effort in Singapore following a downturn in lending to China and a simultaneous rise in business with the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 30 | An orientation towards customers ’ needs and rights is becoming a prevailing ethos in society which the police can not ignore . ’ |