Example sentences of "in a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the book , which as a whole survives only in a revised and partially expurgated Latin translation by Rufinus made in 398 , damaged his reputation for pure orthodoxy . |
| 2 | Benoit Mandelbrot 's central idea presented here in a revised and expanded version of an essay first published in English five years ago , is that many of Nature 's forms have irregularities so extreme that they are best described not by the one-dimensional curves and two-dimensional surfaces of conventional geometry but as intermediate shapes ( ’ fractals ’ ) whose dimensionality need not be a whole number . |
| 3 | I was caught in a current and no matter how much and how hard I swam I just could not get out of it . |
| 4 | This unity enabled the Alliance to intervene into the discourse of municipal politics in a skilful and decisive manner . |
| 5 | A second explanation is in terms of the frustrations that men of the disadvantaged classes and ethnic groups suffer in a class-based and racist society . |
| 6 | The drawings will be made in a modern and approved style , and when finished , will be submitted to the inspection of the subscribers at large . |
| 7 | William Golding , the oldest of the new novelists , has told how his first novel emerged from reflecting , as so many in the 1940s reflected , how readily Hitler and his National Socialists had revived barbarism in our times , and in a modern and advanced industrial state . |
| 8 | Born in Middlesex of an Irish doctor , she grew up in a pleasant and comfortable home in Ireland and was 5 years old when she noticed that her hearing was failing , and by the age of 17 , she was almost totally deaf . |
| 9 | This means that removal of the event or object prevents the child from responding to it in a pleasant and rewarding way . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's got on with the job in a pleasant and professional manner . |
| 11 | It also reveals why movement becomes problematic for ‘ real polises ’ , for it defeats a belief in a fixed and bounded world . |
| 12 | Like mainstream narrative cinema , these postmodernist films position the spectator in a fixed and rigid space . |
| 13 | Because of properties that we can think of as their ‘ shape ’ , atoms and small molecules tend naturally to pack themselves together in a fixed and orderly manner . |
| 14 | Her eyes had been open in a fixed and vacant stare , and the waxen tinge to her skin had told its own tale . |
| 15 | Thus carbon and oxygen are invariably combined in a fixed and definite proportion in carbon dioxide . |
| 16 | ‘ CAMRA 's aim is that future generations should enjoy a variety of good beers , in a healthy and diverse mix of pubs , ’ said Campaigns Manager Stephen Cox . |
| 17 | At first glance they may seem confining and restrictive , but more careful evaluation shows that the structure of laws enables us to live in a healthy and balanced way , in moderation and without excess . |
| 18 | It has a peculiarly romantic ring about it and refers to ‘ special protection , opportunities and facilities to enable them to develop in a healthy and normal manner in freedom and dignity ’ , to ‘ special treatment , education and care ’ and ‘ love and understanding and an atmosphere of affection and security ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ If students are to be well grounded in a healthy and promising attitude to fluvial geomorphology , they will have to grasp the ideas contained in this book . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But if it does n't ? ’ asked Charlotte in a flat and weary tone . |
| 21 | If boards are encouraged to take part in the identification of their needs and the development of materials , as indicated from the seminar conclusions outlined above , then it is to be hoped that their potential to act in a supportive and constructive way will be fully realised . |
| 22 | Here we quote Walpole 's formulae for an arbitrary dispersion of spherical inclusions dispersed throughout a matrix of another material in a homogeneous and isotropic distribution on average . |
| 23 | This option obtains the material to be approved and carries out a check to ensure that the package , the references to its contents , the constituent modules and the set of active DCs are in a correct and consistent state . |
| 24 | The Christian ideal was more the saint than the sage : men and women who made the world to come seem present now rather than those who knew how to live and survive in a stormy and dangerous society . |
| 25 | BETWEEN THE YEARS 1640 AND 1660 THIS TOWN WAS THE SCENE OF THE LABOURS OF RICHARD BAXTER RENOWNED EQUALLY FOR HIS CHRISTIAN LEARNING AND HIS PASTORAL FIDELITY IN A STORMY AND DIVIDED AGE HE ADVOCATED UNITY AND COMPREHENSION POINTING THE WAY TO ‘ THE EVERLASTING REST ’ CHURCHMEN AND NONCONFORMISTS UNITED TO RAISE THIS MEMORIAL AD 1875 |
| 26 | Remember that what became the Swann Inquiry started life under the chairmanship of Anthony Ramp ton as an investigation into the causes of ‘ West Indian ’ ‘ underachievement ’ and , in a curious and even paradoxical discourse of exclusion and inclusion , entitled its interim report West Indian Children in Our Schools ( DES , 1981 ) ! |
| 27 | We hide behind our men , peeping at each other in a curious and suspicious fashion . |
| 28 | If the organization 's strategy has been worked out in a thorough and collaborative way , there should exist a mutual understanding of roles as between departments . |
| 29 | I find that many new writers ' stories and poems seem to occur in a spatial and social vacuum : the writer launches straight into an account of action , ideas , thoughts , feelings , without giving any clear sense of where all this is taking place . |
| 30 | Such an approach 's insistence on dealing with non-traditional , non-objective methods points up the ambiguities which characterize psychological methods , in a persistent and useful way . |