Example sentences of "and [noun sg] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can also talk about identity as a preface to acquisition , diversification and the hiring of high-value recruits ( 1980s themes ) , or as a signal of social responsibility and reliability in a crisis ( 1990s stuff ) . |
| 2 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 3 | Thompson and West in a study of preferences for sheltered housing which included a sample of people of all ages who suffered from rheumatism and arthritis , found among these respondents ‘ a strong feeling of not wanting to impose on relatives ’ ( Thompson and West , 1984 , p. 318 ) , and the older respondents were even less willing than the younger to consider the option of being cared for by kin . |
| 4 | By the 1690s the northern colonies were spreading north and west in a way that was quite likely to lead to an eventual conflict with New France , though the distance between the English and the French colonies was still too great for a full-scale conflict to be possible . |
| 5 | It is no accident that Jane Austen 's last , unfinished , novel , Sanditon , should take its name from a new resort of speculative buildings , and that the leading speculator should have abandoned his contented old house , with its English verdure , comfort , and lack of prospect , for a new eminence and exposure in a villa ornee on a cliff-top , with an up-to-the-minute name , Trafalgar House . |
| 6 | They are extremely handsome and sensual , and glory in a drunken brawl . |
| 7 | From the 1960s to the 1980s , they came from the impoverished north-eastern states — Paraiba , Pernambuco , Bahia and Minas Gerais — to find shelter , food and livelihood in a city that has expelled them . |
| 8 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 9 | Mindful of the desire of the people in both parts of Germany to live together in peace and freedom in a democratic and social federal state governed by the rule of law , |
| 10 | So let us fantasise , and see industry and agriculture in a new light . |
| 11 | Model predictions of regional changes in temperature and moisture in a future world with the equivalent of 560–600 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide have to be treated with much caution . |
| 12 | In the previous chapter we looked at crime and criminality in a very broad and general manner . |
| 13 | A DRIVER drank so much beer and whisky in a day-long binge he was still five times over the limit 24 hours later . |
| 14 | We know who , because of his background and upbringing in a particular business , will stick with it through thick and thin despite losses . |
| 15 | Clearly one can not hope to give a comprehensive survey of the history of metals and metalworking in a single chapter . |
| 16 | Mark Weedon had a period in general management consultancy with McKinsey and experience in a major international company before coming to Egon Zehnder . |
| 17 | Someone who has acquired skills in early life for a job involving considerable strength and mobility will be more handicapped in finding work if they become wheelchair-bound than someone similarly afflicted who has qualifications and experience in a field that allows them to do a sedentary job demanding intellectual skills . |
| 18 | ‘ We would like the Community to work towards a simple document — a European Record of Achievement — which would set out an individual jobseeker 's qualifications and experience in a way which could be recognised easily by employers in other countries . ’ |
| 19 | All talk of plunder , piracy and plagiarism in a shopworn discourse of ‘ irreverence ’ and boisterousness , as if Westworld kick up some kind of a rumpus on pop 's trash-heap of efflorescences , as if there are still grandmothers to be shocked and purists to be cheeked . |
| 20 | Contrary to the process in Eco 's novel , Pazzi effects a caesura between past and present in a way that is disturbing — the fascination of his novel is also a morbid one . |
| 21 | ‘ The whole superstructure of the society considered is thus implicit and present in a specific way in the relations of production , i.e. in the fixed structure of the distribution of the means of production and economic functions between determinate categories of production agents . ’ |
| 22 | These are policies which are invested part in the with-profits fund and part in a range of unit-linked funds ( which resemble unit trusts ) . |
| 23 | The existence of a bibliography and index in a book may be ascertained from its entry in the national bibliography , but the quality of these items is best judged from examination of the book itself . |
| 24 | At the black ash reception desk a thin , middle-aged woman , with a bright gash of a mouth and hair in a severe French coupe , looked up sharply from her word processor . |
| 25 | Burton was in his Valhalla : a company largely of men , a chosen few , who could endure ancient and god-like debauches , sing old songs , recite the enduring poetry of the race spin yarns which threaded together truth and fiction in a seamless flow of talk — while outside there was world war and the danger of war to which they were all headed and of which they were all unafraid . |
| 26 | On the death of Queen Mary in 1694 , a sermon was preached noting how rare it was to find courage and heroism in a woman and relating this to the modesty and selfless nature of the late queen , in abasing herself before her husband . |
| 27 | a history which exists eternally in Jesus , who was born in poverty and humility in a manger , who dies abandoned on a cross , and who calls us to follow Him right through to the morning of His resurrection , with its message of hope . |
| 28 | 1 Put the sugar , butter and honey in a pan . |
| 29 | As Jakobson perceived long ago , those varieties that have supra-local functions and that tend to develop in the direction of koines display simpler phonemic systems than varieties that have purely local functions ( for an excellent discussion of simplification and complexity in a range of language situations , see Andersen , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | The DOE continues to support a study of the migration of the natural decay-series radionuclides of uranium and thorium in a variety of sedimentary settings in Cornwall and Scotland in order to test our ideas and modelling capabilities with a view to applying them to the geological disposal of radioactive waste . |