Example sentences of "in an [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The theory of probability is possibly the chief weapon in an actuary 's armoury ’ |
2 | Soon after the early death of his father in 1829 , Israel appears to have become a clerk in an uncle 's bank in Göttingen , remaining there for ten years . |
3 | ‘ I think it has taught the parents a lot about how much science and technology is studied in an infants ' school , ’ head teacher Judy Nicholls told the Herald . |
4 | Even if there is no impairment in an individual 's ability to become aware of a hazard to safety , there may be some reason why he is prevented from taking the necessary avoiding action . |
5 | Learning can , in a serviceable but imperfect definition , be said to include any change in an individual 's behaviour that is due to its experience . |
6 | Self-image , its origins , its present restrictive function and its future debilitative consequences are important elements in an individual 's life , and gaining an understanding of them is vital . |
7 | First , we suggested that the occurrence of disability as a significant event in an individual 's life is only a starting-point for understanding the practical and personal consequences of living with a disability . |
8 | Furthermore … in an individual 's experience the acquisition of rites and beliefs precedes the emotions which are said to accompany them later in adult life . |
9 | One major thrust of this recent research trend is towards greater recognition of what Lortie calls a ‘ biographical orientation ’ , which investigates the interaction of personal and structural influences in an individual 's career . |
10 | They would also omit any individual idiosyncrasies in an individual 's language ( known in linguistics as idiolect ) , and any purely physiological interference , like traffic noise outside or the effect of trying to speak while under physical strain . |
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13 | However , this is not a great disadvantage , for in an insect 's world , significant objects tend to loom large and close . |
14 | Hence in South Western General Property Company Ltd v Marton ( 1982 ) 263 EG 1090 , a clause in an auctioneer 's catalogue attempting to avoid the effects of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 was held unreasonable . |
15 | No doubt the Virgin Isles will crop up in an Airtours ' brochure before long . |
16 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
17 | This has led them to postulate the existence of ‘ structures ’ in the animal 's head : in contrast , behaviourists are reluctant to say anything about what is in an animal 's head , other than that the members of a particular species have an innate tendency to be reinforced by some stimuli and not by others . |
18 | By analogy , we can hope to deduce what must be in an animal 's head by observing what it does . |
19 | However , it does not follow from this that there is nothing in an animal 's head , or that nothing useful can be said about it . |
20 | The second misunderstanding concerns the ideas which must be present in an animal 's mind if kin selection is to operate . |
21 | At one time , the discovery of magnetite in an animal 's tissue was thought to indicate that the animal had a magnetic sense . |
22 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
23 | A man who is essentially passive in an activist 's role , a man willing to let the tides of history dictate his actions . ’ |
24 | They were very much sort of in an assistance capi capacity if you can understand . |
25 | I housed both the processor and amp in an SKB 2U rack case and hardwired a double mains board in the back . |
26 | Mildly astonished at finding himself paid to perform in an Aladdin 's cave of literature , he takes it in his stride . |
27 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
28 | Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going . |
29 | If a recording artist comes to me without a publishing deal , I always insist IRS is considered for publishing as we can pay better percentage splits , do just as good a job , and help invest in an act 's career at a vital time . |
30 | But if you 're in an emergency situ situation , you do n't know and would you be equal to it , would you have some reserve you could fall on ? |