Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a meal is consumed in a non-preferred location the dog is praised lavishly and offered a bone or a chunk of beef chew . |
| 2 | In a closed-loop system a position detector generates a pulse which signals to the control unit that a step has been completed . |
| 3 | In a following question the SCI ( Scotland ) also admitted that in translating recommendations into a written report the point was often lost ; the discussions with the school and perhaps the LEA were the major reporting function . |
| 4 | In a final test the rats , although hungry , proved unwilling to consume the food . |
| 5 | In a final statement the ministers expressed " deep concern " over the conflicts in Yugoslavia and in Nagorny-Karabakh and Nakhichevan , on the southern edge of the former Soviet Union and close to Turkey , a NATO member . |
| 6 | In a final chapter the editor evaluated the experience against the objectives identified by the Herbert Royal Commission : ‘ administrative efficiency and the health of representative government ’ ( Rhodes 1972:457 — 8 ) . |
| 7 | Furnished in a modern style the hotel is airconditioned and has a lift . |
| 8 | In a healthy organism the latter , as a member of the cellular society , endeavours in a way to maintain a natural equilibrium between the cell 's vibrational frequencies and external environmental EM influences . |
| 9 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 10 | In a healthy adult the amount lost in this way is negligible . |
| 11 | If a client objects to the bill submitted by the solicitor in a contentious matter an application may be made to the High Court for an order for taxation of the bill . |
| 12 | In a curious way the planners welcomed these developments seizing upon Government directives requiring the clustering of houses in order to economise on services , simply as a means of defending both their own Department and their backing of the housing policy . |
| 13 | There are two problems with the type of stack found in the KDF9 computer : ( a ) it is of fixed size , so that the programmer or compiler has to take care to keep within its bounds ; and ( b ) in a multiprogramming environment the stack has to be emptied and refilled at each process switch ; the latter could be done on the KDF9 only one element at a time ( although suitable stack dump and restore instructions could be envisaged ) , and the problem was solved on that computer by providing multiple nesting stores . |
| 14 | Now nice abbreviation for thought patterns is thop T H O P when we talk about thought patterns or thops a method of gathering ideas a meth a method of getting things down on paper so we do n't lose them but not in a linear way in a spatial way a right brain activity . |
| 15 | In a centralised system the dull and docile will always go along with new policies , but no change can be properly interpreted or adequately sustained without support from active thinkers and innovators at different levels in a system . |
| 16 | Her son discovered her in a drowsy state an hour later . |
| 17 | If a theory like this were available , we would have reintroduced in a roundabout way the possibility of a conditional theory of justification . |
| 18 | In a roundabout way the defence of consent is preserved by cll. 14(4) and 45(c) . |
| 19 | In a liquid-junction cell a liquid containing a dissolved compound ( to conduct electricity ) replaces the metal . |
| 20 | In a traditional plant the engine , transmission , and axles are placed onto ‘ the track ’ — a chain-driven series of platforms which move continuously at a fixed pace while the operators work on the cars — and the painted body is lowered onto them . |
| 21 | In a dark age the pacifist 's role was to bear witness against barbarism , or , as Auden was to put it ‘ to show an affirming flame ’ : |
| 22 | In a specific instance the author discovered a footnote in a county history ( 1774 ) describing how stained glass in a local church was falling into decay . |
| 23 | Travelling in a clockwise direction the route proceeds from Cat Nab , Saltburn along part of the Cleveland Way and along the cliff edge down to the beach at Cattersty Sands . |
| 24 | The National Union of Teachers fears that , because of its divisive potential , opting out will considerably weaken the educational system : ‘ What is proposed is really a means of reintroducing in a covert manner an elitist and centrally controlled system of direct grant schools on the lines of the grammar schools under the guise of increasing parental choice ’ . |
| 25 | These are activities that offer everyone in a varied class the chance to share a common mathematical experience , yet to work at a level appropriate to each individual . |
| 26 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |
| 27 | It was in a literal sense the ‘ last resort ’ ( dernier ressort ) . |
| 28 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |
| 29 | She rounded a corner quickly ; in a tiny estuary the small boats of the eel pickers were congregated . |
| 30 | In a digital computer the ‘ lowest level ’ of language is simply a string of binary digits 1 and 0 that is isomorphic to the states of the machine 's registers . |