Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior staff tried to resolve the problem through a combination of individual counselling sessions and by eliciting his help in a long-term project to repair the pool tables . |
| 2 | BGS is collaborating with the Leicestershire Archaeological Unit in a long-term study to investigate the utility of NERC airborne multispectral scanner data ( including thermal infra-red linescanner data ) in locating new archaeological sites and the complex changes in the course of the Trent that have influenced the distribution of settlements since the Bronze Age . |
| 3 | A further point to remember in the presentation of data is that most people can not ‘ take in ’ lists of figures , so ensure that they are always presented in a diagrammatic form to show clearly proportions , relationships and trends . |
| 4 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 5 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 6 | A small grubby child in a woolly pullover dotted with holes , faded jeans and gumboots had emerged from nowhere . |
| 7 | The heavy two-handed sword fell with them , sliding along the floor as the two men wrestled each other in a deadly silence broken only by the sound of fists meeting flesh and their hoarse breathing . |
| 8 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 9 | So two Somervillians in a prestigious order limited in numbers to twenty-four . |
| 10 | First shown at Photokina in October 1990 , and well received by professional photographers specialising in architectural and monumental photography , the Corfield WA67 is now available in a revised version incorporating a number of improved facilities suggested by users . |
| 11 | In October 1988 , after a two-year investigation by top American , British and French anti-drug officers , a whole major international bank , together with eighty four persons were charged with conspiring in a world-wide plot to launder drugs profits . |
| 12 | His secretary had come to regard lying to me as part of her job and even our friends lied for him , aiding and abetting my dick-led husband in a misguided effort to protect me . |
| 13 | As recently as 1949 a Dutch officer had committed some appalling massacres here in a misguided attempt to regain control of the colonies for Holland . |
| 14 | While we must get closer to the market , the proposals continue to ignore the reality of market forces in a misguided attempt to solve undesirable social objectives . |
| 15 | In a misguided attempt to impress the veteran American producer , I brought up the name of Jaume Sisa : a songwriter I once met by chance in a bar in Barcelona , and a man whose work is considered obscure even in Catalonia . |
| 16 | In 1582 the first earl over-reached himself when , in a misguided attempt to gain control over the young king , he and others kidnapped James VI and carried him off to Huntingtower . |
| 17 | Groups who have drifted from our ranks in a misguided attempt to make decent pop 's terrain , render it a worthy environment for Ben E. King . |
| 18 | Hel lived in the land of Elvidnir ( Den of Sleet and Black Clouds ) , eating the brains and bones of mortals with a bewitched knife , Sult ( Starvation ) , and sleeping in a vile bed named Kor ( Sickness ) . |
| 19 | Parents Barry and Carmen Daniels have been involved in a legal battle to force Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley to reopen London 's Westminster Children 's Hospital , where a transplant was to have taken place . |
| 20 | Parents Barry and Carmen Daniels have been involved in a legal battle to force Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley to reopen facilities at Westminster Children 's Hospital where a transplant was to have taken place . |
| 21 | Many such policies have to be enshrined in a legal framework to ensure that employers implement them . |
| 22 | Eleventh-century additions in English to blank leaves in the York Gospels include surveys of three of the archbishopric 's estates , an inventory of church treasures at Sherburn-in-Elmet , and a list of sureties in a legal case involving one Ælfric , while a Durham copy of Bede 's Lives of St Cuthbert received an inventory of church possessions including a kettle and sixteen ornamented horns . |
| 23 | Education/qualifications — qualification in a legal profession required , further statutory qualifications as set out in the LCD booklet ‘ Judicial Appointments ’ . |
| 24 | By a summons in the county court the plaintiffs , Barclays Bank Plc. , claimed against the first and second defendants , Nicholas Edward O'Brien and Bridget Mary O'Brien , possession of a dwelling house comprised in a legal charge dated 3 July 1987 . |
| 25 | Several years ago , the university was unsuccessful in a legal action to force Dr Marshall to stop bringing three other dachshunds with her to work . |
| 26 | In a final exhortation to defeat the Fascists , the paper added , ‘ The workers ’ counteraction will cause them to tremble . |
| 27 | In these circumstances , the only diplomatic initiatives which appeared to have potential significance were those instigated by Iran in early February and by the Soviet Union in the middle of the month in a final attempt to avert a full-scale ground war . |
| 28 | King Hussein had himself undertaken a tour of major European capitals from Jan. 2 in a final attempt to prevent the outbreak of war with Iraq . |
| 29 | The Joint Commission reconvened in a final attempt to make some progress . |
| 30 | There is only one exception , if during the separation period you have lived together temporarily for not more than six months in all , in a final attempt to make the marriage work , you may still be eligible to apply for a divorce under the simplified procedure . |