Example sentences of "in [noun] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We arrived in Sheffield a little after three in the afternoon and parked in the Meadow Hall Shopping Centre car park . |
| 2 | The internal combustion engine did not destroy an unchanging pattern of work stretching back into immemorial antiquity and neither is rapid technological change in agriculture a purely twentieth-century phenomenon . |
| 3 | It 's something that gives his performance in Glory a genuinely affecting complexity , something which suggests he may develop into an actor with some depth . |
| 4 | In addition a recently identified group of pain afferents ( usually functionally dormant and called ‘ sleeping nociceptors ’ ) has been shown to be activated by inflammation and may contribute to peripheral sensitisation to pain after injury . |
| 5 | A living being is therefore in essence a potentially self-healing system . |
| 6 | The problem was that the cultural experience offered by an education in science and technology was in practice a completely different kind of experience . |
| 7 | In practice a somewhat smaller interval can be used to speed up calculations . |
| 8 | The employers utilised what appears to be in practice a fairly standard procedure intended to minimise the risk of facing unfair dismissal proceedings with regard to both procedural fairness and the substantive reasonableness of any resulting dismissals of ‘ refuseniks ’ . |
| 9 | And there was in practice a very thin line between peaceful protest and the other variety . |
| 10 | A citizen on a march , or on a picket , or at a public meeting , has never been able to respond to the repressive exercise of authority by calling in aid a legally enforceable right to do that which is impugned . |
| 11 | Drake has a low moorhen-like weak nasal ‘ gseee ’ and in courtship a rather musical croak , and duck a rather hoarse quack . |
| 12 | Finance minister Tsutomu Hata needs to have in mind a more convincing package of measures than last week 's widely expected damp squib to get Japan Inc back into top gear . |
| 13 | She had in mind a purely platonic visit — there was a guestroom in the little house ; but in the event , perhaps inevitably , they ended up in bed together . |
| 14 | Romero had in mind a much more ambitious script in which the zombies have more or less taken over , except in an island enclave where soldiers have trained them into an army and scientists are devising ways of using them as slaves . |
| 15 | And make no mistake , although this has been introduced in a piecemeal and seemingly haphazard manner , it is in effect a well thought out policy , with the strategy coming from the Tory think-tanks and implemented with gusto by their close friends and allies in both public and private industry . |
| 16 | Later in marriage a particularly keen sense of commitment may be felt towards aged or ailing parents . |
| 17 | This practice , unchanged over the years , effected a good separation of the heavier ore from the lighter dross but was an arduous task , and in winter a severely cold one . |
| 18 | Stanley Hoffmann argued that de Gaulle underestimated the resilience of Soviet ideology in Russia and Eastern Europe , and as a result " out of wishful thinking and premature anticipation , imagined in Russia a far greater move away from totalitarianism at home , a greater willingness to let a " hundred flowers " bloom in Eastern Europe … than existed " . |
| 19 | In Shanghai a little later , about one hundred Uighurs held a similar protest . |
| 20 | With the campaign against the Japanese army still raging he observed , ‘ We have in Burma a potentially dangerous situation … not dissimilar to that which developed in Southern Ireland after the [ last ] war . ’ |
| 21 | Johnson ( 1986 ) discusses the practicalities of using the textual processing capacities of computers for a specific research purpose , and Wells ( 1985 ) gives a useful ( and rather sobering ) account of the problems encountered by the Bristol Child Language Project in computer-processing a very large amount of socially and developmentally variable material . |
| 22 | She arrived in Bamford a little after eleven and parked in the almost empty car park to the rear of the supermarket . |
| 23 | Nos. 11E , 18E and 20E with four others were sold to Cohens without trucks which were then used to replace unsatisfactory trucks under the seven Erith covered top cars , which were to remain in service a little longer . |
| 24 | Blackburn are nowhere compared to us after two seasons in the top flight , but with tons more cash spent , and in theory a far better management . |
| 25 | Essential oils are not always cheap , especially rose and neroli , but because they are highly concentrated , in use a little goes a very long way . |
| 26 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 27 | George and Joseph found the law in Holland a little too efficient for their fraudulent undertakings . |
| 28 | Further developments came when Intel introduced the 80286 processor , ( the 286 ) a 16 bit implementation of the 8086 that had some clever bits tagged on , particularly in memory handling — another point we 'll cover in depth a little later in the series . |
| 29 | In Britain a little earlier , Mr Harold Wilson 's advocacy of ‘ white-hot technology ’ bequeathed to the country four uneconomic aluminium smelters . |
| 30 | In France a more elaborate and complex coercive apparatus existed than anywhere else in Western Europe — the system of classement set up by Colbert in 1668–73 . |