Example sentences of "in [det] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure of Sinhalese caste was unusual in that a majority of Sinhalese belonged to a single caste , the Goyigama , which was also traditionally the highest caste . |
| 2 | This poses a problem in that a school with high ability pupils would expect ‘ good ’ results but it may not be a ‘ good school ’ — a problem we look at under ‘ Issues ’ later in this chapter . |
| 3 | It will be argued that the circumstances of Nepal and Zambia are not unusual in that a set of political preconditions for a successful soil conservation policy are not present , and only exist in very rare circumstances ( the most outstanding examples being the Republic of South Africa , and South Korea ) . |
| 4 | However , the computation contained an error in that a deduction for group relief of £3,549,923 had been allowed twice . |
| 5 | First of all , while records of achievement aim to describe individuals in a sufficiently detailed way to prevent comparison between them , GCSE results are still basically hierarchical in that a series of grades is involved and pupils will still be comparable according to the grade achieved . |
| 6 | In one city he had been impersonated by a woman named Helen Potter , and in another a boy of sixteen managed to get into his hotel room . |
| 7 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 8 | In one corner is a gas ring , in another a table with some school books on it . |
| 9 | Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined . |
| 10 | and find in this a kind of consolation . |
| 11 | I 'm might say , what I 'm , I 'm not saying that film but in some , in some cases he do n't , you know , there has always been he do n't in this a lot of people . |
| 12 | In this a number of companies ( which can range from five to 500 ) contribute funds and technical and market input into a collaborative venture generally based at the laboratories of the technology provider . |
| 13 | In this a group of friends form a syndicate to create the Hopkin myth , inventing biographical details ( ‘ a near genius living in the country with a romantic proletarian background , possibly a dipsomaniac mother and so on ’ ) for a painter who does not exist but whose paintings they churn out in a fashionable style ( ‘ with dots , crescent shapes and bright colours ’ ) and exhibit in a sensational first exhibition . |
| 14 | In half a column in the Daily Telegraph he examined the plot and decorated his review with a reference to a Victorian poem but , although he called Mr Begley 's first novel ‘ extraordinary ’ ( which could mean almost anything : one hopes that both the best and the worst books in the world are ‘ extraordinary ’ ) , he made no comment on the worth of the later one . |
| 15 | Out of the confines of Easegill Kirk , the beck can be followed upstream without difficulty , passing more cave entrances on the south bank and arriving in half a mile at the waterfall of Cow Dub . |
| 16 | Sadly , Maastricht represents the third occasion in half a century on which Britain has been given the chance to face its European future and , I regret to say , the third occasion in that time on which we have chosen to seek refuge in the past . |
| 17 | Stocktake can be done in half a day with the Psion Organiser |
| 18 | If you are using dried yeast , measure four tablespoons of the onion liquid into a small bowl and stir in half a teaspoon of caster sugar . |
| 19 | One of nine lenders advertising in half a page of the Daily Mirror in June 1990 asked |
| 20 | With every breath we should take in half a litre of oxygen , twenty per cent of which goes to the brain . |
| 21 | The pain of a tooth abscess or following extraction may be relieved by a solution of Hypericum and Calendula ( or Calendula alone ) as a mouthwash , using two teaspoons full of the tincture in half a glass of water . |
| 22 | Bee stings should be removed with tweezers and then bathed with a teaspoon of bicarb in half a glass of water . |
| 23 | Bee stings , which are left in the skin , should be removed with tweezers , then bathed with a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda in half a glass of water . |
| 24 | However , early on , as he introduced the superposition principle , Dirac would break in half a piece of chalk . |
| 25 | The lobon-gur mixture taught to the mothers was a revised version of the pilot LGS , which consisted of a three finger pinch ( up to the first crease ) of lobon and one fistful of gur in half a seer of drinking water , the only change being that the gur was measured as one fistful rather than two four-finger scoops . |
| 26 | He then used skills honed in half a lifetime as a successful actor to feign shock and sorrow , said Mr Calvert-Smith . |
| 27 | Henry 's wholehearted displays in such a variety of roles , allied to his self-effacing modesty , combined to endear him to all Palace fans of the mid-1980s . |
| 28 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
| 29 | Often the pilot is in such a state of panic that the flying becomes dangerously inaccurate . |
| 30 | IF a dwelling house is in such a state of disrepair as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance , the tenant may lay an information against his landlord alleging the existence of a statutory nuisance under the Public Health Act 1936 . |