Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teams of under-11 boys and girls , five of each on the pitch in a 10-strong team and eight of each in the squads of 16 , will play a series of games starting at 1pm on Saturday and 10am on Sunday . |
| 2 | The new release enables System 3000 users to connect to multiple servers in a multi-windowed format on their screen , accessing multiple databases and applications from different sources simultaneously . |
| 3 | And two thirds said they would only have sex in a long-term relationship . |
| 4 | But if either you or your partner have had previous sexual partners , even in a long-term relationship , you should discuss and practise safer sex . |
| 5 | This can be especially true if you are a woman who is unused to making sexual demands , or if you are already in a long-term relationship when you begin to ask for safer sex . |
| 6 | After all , Sarah was involved in a long-term relationship with Paddy McNally while Andrew still had a soft spot for Katherine ‘ Koo ’ Stark , an American actress who had excited considerable media interest because of her appearance in soft-porn films . |
| 7 | A major problem with traditional Marxist analysis is that by laying all sins at the door of capitalist development , it fails to explain what keeps the periphery in a long-term relationship with the centre , since there appears to be little in the relationship for either partner . |
| 8 | Now these men were involved in a long-term operation and total secrecy was essential to its outcome . |
| 9 | Thus , for at least one member of the coordinating committee the project was but one stage in a long-term plan for radically heightening both the performance and the visibility of the school library service . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Thus an old person who lives alone surrounded by piles of newspapers and plastic bags full of shopping and old clothes may be quite happily engaged in a long-term sorting out of possessions on a scale that may take years to accomplish . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The choice of Mr Bernerd ( who recently hit the headlines in connection with the case of ex-Heritage Minister David Mellor and Ms Antonia de Sancha ) as the company 's financial backer , seems to have been an uneasy choice and has not resulted in a long-term commitment to the gallery at a difficult time for the art market . |
| 14 | The Law Commission , too , is heavily involved in a long-term codification project with which it now has the assistance of a powerful Society of Public Teachers of Law group . |
| 15 | Nicholas engaged in a long-term programme of social engineering . |
| 16 | The accompanying article stated that many UNTAC officials saw the hardline Khmer Rouge position as designed to undermine its rivals " in a long-term strategy that looks beyond the [ May 1993 ] election period and is aimed ultimately at a unilateral seizure of power " . |
| 17 | The diplomatic initiatives of 1958 will be discussed in later chapters , since they were plainly envisaged as the first steps in a long-term strategy . |
| 18 | The fact that monitoring and evaluation are built into this way of working adds to the efficient use of resources , particularly by breaking up activities and the focus of work in a long-term situation . |
| 19 | MORLEY STREET handed out a length beating to younger brother Granville Again in a stirring finish to the Coral-Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 20 | Huddersfield Town .... 3 Nottingham Forest .... 3 ( aet ; score at 90 minutes 3-3 ; Forest win on away goals ) NOTTINGHAM FOREST , the Littlewoods Cup holders , stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road , where it took the League 's away goals regulations to defeat the otherwise indomitable spirit of Huddersfield in a stirring tie . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | In a diagrammatic representation of a fault tree , we would see at the top the main failure that concerns us — in this case ‘ loss of electrical power to the engineered safeguards features ’ . |
| 24 | Now more and more of us are sampling what other countries have to offer : countries such as France which makes hundreds of cheeses , in a mouth-watering variety of shapes , textures and tastes . |
| 25 | There was fresh salmon to start with , baked in a light-as-a-feather pastry , then duck cooked in a mouth-watering loganberry sauce , plus a couple of huge tureens of fresh vegetables and plenty of white wine to wash down each delicious mouthful . |
| 26 | sewn-up in a well-fed zigzag — things |
| 27 | And last , but not least , centres must ensure that procedures are in place to allow those staff who are teaching the same module to talk to each other so that internal standardisation — essential in a devolved system such as National Certificate — can take place . |
| 28 | The keys to success in a devolved system are |
| 29 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 30 | But not in a boastful sort of way , only because I asked her . ’ |