Example sentences of "in [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 Although you have to cart the cylinder around with you , there is a bonus in that a blowtorch can be used upside down to get under a pipe which is being fitted in situ ; turning a cartridge-fed blowlamp upside down can cause problems as it will flare .
2 These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club .
3 As a matter of fact there 's pride , pride in that a picture can get away from the lollipops and still be inoffensive and commercially pleasing .
4 Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is .
5 In 1979 a homebuyer would have only had a choice of repayment or the newly-popular endowment mortgages .
6 Further , any person contemplating publication of statements in such a discussion would face duplication of the proceedings and increased costs in any case where the allegations made do identify an individual councillor or officer .
7 It is true that the claim in such a case can be distinguished as being proprietary in nature .
8 Why in such a case should the courts blind themselves to a clear indication of what Parliament intended in using those words ?
9 Clearly , a list of observation statements acquired in such a way would form a very unsatisfactory basis for the respective generalizations .
10 To see a parent — someone he thinks of as being all-powerful and ever-capable — reacting in such a way must induce in the child the belief that whatever it is that is causing such terror must be dreadful indeed and that he , therefore , should be equally terrified .
11 The shadows of a mouse projected upon the wall in such a way could make us believe a monster lurked around the corner .
12 ‘ Highlighting sexual harassment in such a way can have a totally detrimental effect , ’ he said .
13 Euro-dollar demand deposits or accounts are seldom used or available as the balances of such accounts would be volatile and the costs incurred in such a service would reduce the overall efficiency and competitiveness of the euro-dollar market .
14 The care provided in such a unit might look something like the list that follows .
15 But even if Kants idea of a unitary space is granted , it is still not entirely clear how places in such a space can act as a principle of individuation .
16 He was concerned that to include the large Asian countries in such a scheme would introduce problems that the small nations could find difficult to resolve .
17 In such cases the Court of Justice has held that the requirements of Article 190 are satisfied if the statement of reasons given explains in essence the measures taken by the institutions and that a specific statement of reasons in support of all the details which might be contained in such a measure can not be required , provided such details fall within the general scheme of the measures as a whole .
18 A company operating in such a society must realise that the extended family means that the decisions on consumption are taken in a larger unit and in different ways .
19 In extreme circumstances a minority , and especially a national minority , finding itself in such a position may simply decide to secede and create a society and state in which it forms the majority .
20 Merely to stand in such a position will give you some idea of the strain such a position exerts on the groin and accounts for the number of injuries Wasim has incurred in that region .
21 It would appear that tenants are bound by the provisions of the Act and could therefore be affected adversely by it , but it remains to be seen as to whether a tenant in such a position could maintain an action against its landlord for breach of the landlord 's covenant for quiet enjoyment where there is no reservation of such a right of access in the tenant 's lease .
22 However , the hidden messages in such a question may be of some importance in terms of conditioning the consciousness of the — largely working class — students for whom CSE mathematics courses are intended .
23 On 7 June an emergency meeting of the NSFU Executive was held at which Father Charles Hopkins , standing in for the absent Havelock Wilson , pointed out the disastrous financial effects which participation in such a stoppage might have on the union and the peril in which it might stand in respect of its hard won provincial settlements .
24 A person 's dependence on his lineage in such a system would be comprehensive as there would be no other means of livelihood and protection .
25 Both Bachofen and Morgan believed that , since you belonged to the group by virtue of being your mother 's son , women in such a system must have a particularly high status .
26 Bürger in such a context would assimilate both ‘ realist ’ and ‘ modernist ’ art to autonomous and bourgeois art , the only distinction between them being that modernism with its inaccessibility and greater cult of the creator is even more autonomous , more ‘ auratic ’ , than realism .
27 The establishment of order and civilisation in Ireland ( according to an English model ) is required because only in such a context can nobility , proper religion , and morality prosper .
28 In its pure form a listing of all the terms in such a language will only remain current until the next batch of documents is added to the system .
29 It is logical to ask whether attenuation of soft X-rays in such a wind might account for the dividing line .
30 A cat in such a situation may perform a strange , throaty YOWLING noise .
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