Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keys to success in a devolved system are |
| 2 | This heat has to be turned into mechanical energy , currently always by a steam turbine and the mechanical energy in a rotating shaft is then translated by a generator into electricity . |
| 3 | The presence of internal defects in a brittle crystal is usually of minor importance . |
| 4 | Living in a stately home is an art , acquired by upbringing . |
| 5 | Capital accounting in a nationalized industry is in essence no different from that in a limited company . |
| 6 | But it 's not only Trodd and other producers who believe that what makes good work in a collaborative art is the challenge of having to justify decisions to your colleagues , and having colleagues who are not afraid to make those challenges . |
| 7 | The interest which the remains of the Anglo-Saxon past arouse in a modern scholar is an interest in strange and beautiful survivals , in which Lanfranc could see nothing but corruption and lack of learning . |
| 8 | Authority in a modern bureaucracy is hierarchical , running in a direct chain of command from superordinate to subordinate . |
| 9 | The principle of including words of a former age in a modern rite is well established through the use of anthems . |
| 10 | I think that people who are living in a fixed abode are paying in the end . |
| 11 | And indeed , with old age , Rita Ablewhite was beginning to appear slightly less abnormal : behaviour strange in a healthy thirty-five-year-old was more acceptable at seventy . |
| 12 | The purpose of such an exercise is not so much to remove dirt ( mulm in a healthy filter is quite inert ) , so much as to restore the even filtering capacity of the media . |
| 13 | A wooden lid carved with a winged griffin and a deer in a rocky landscape was found at Saqqara in Egypt ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 , pp. 115–16 ) suggests that it may be the work of a Minoan wood carver working in 1450–1400 BC , perhaps as a captive in Mycenae : if so , it is a rare survival of Minoan wood carving . |
| 14 | But ability conceived in a singular way is not sufficient ; one can not assume a situation of perfect competition in which those possessing the necessary physical attributes will emerge as the best sportsmen : the notion of natural ability is not sufficient . |
| 15 | However , to classify this secondary discourse in a pejorative sense is to remain blind to the dynamic configuration of Nizan 's narrative technique . |
| 16 | The satisfaction of working in a multi-disciplinary team is rarely experienced by those in private practice . |
| 17 | Molten pig iron heated by coal in a reverbatory furnace was purified into ‘ malleable ’ iron by the air circulating through the furnace . |
| 18 | If deconstruction in a purest sense is only of limited interest to a study which is asserting that texts emerge out of a particular culture called the English Renaissance , it is also true that , fortunately , there is little pure deconstruction about . |
| 19 | What gives this paper its particular importance in a philosophical sense is that it implicitly raises questions about the nature of knowledge in social work — or what we take to be knowledge about social work . |
| 20 | But by the late-18th century even communal violence in a traditional cause was becoming difficult to stomach . |
| 21 | A judgment of re-identification in a specific instance is made in the light of certain criteria , and is in principle subject to inter-subjective tests in the light of such criteria . |
| 22 | Experience of the realities of management in a specific organization is needed to develop judgement and practice in the relevant skills . |
| 23 | The fact that Chafe ( 1977 ) has suggested that information concerning agent and recipient is not necessarily stored by the individual in a specific arm is perhaps fortuitous in our comparison of English with BSL . |
| 24 | Disposing of letters and memos in a decisive way is a good habit . |
| 25 | he 's in a foul temper is n't he today ? |
| 26 | In the late fifteenth century the new centre of power and culture in a unified Russia was being established in Moscow . |
| 27 | Surely , it might be said , to interpret identificatory references to meanings in a literal sense is to treat meanings , in effect , on a par with objects . |
| 28 | The basic titles in a Japanese firm are usually very clear , and the level of the position within a company , as indicated by the title , is usually closely related to the age of the individual . |
| 29 | Novell Japan Ltd is now shipping UnixWare v1.0 in Japan , initially in its English version , but by May it will be available in a Japanese version being developed jointly with Unix System Laboratories Pacific . |
| 30 | Though she had said she was too young for them she had been enraptured by them in a tiny jeweller 's in Pollensa but Fernando had hurried her away saying he would buy her the real thing one day . |