Example sentences of "and in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients who used the service seemed satisfied , and in a self administered questionnaire 72 of the 85 who responded ( 87% response rate ) reported finding the service helpful or very helpful . |
| 2 | In simpler creatures , granules of it are distributed evenly throughout the egg ; in a frog 's egg , it is concentrated at one end ; and in a bird 's egg it initially fills the greater part of the shell . |
| 3 | It should not be thought that because we are elderly and in a warden controlled complex , we have ‘ lost our marbles ’ . |
| 4 | The trader would be obliged to make at least a bid in one of the generic runs and in a size of at least $5 million . |
| 5 | Here is an example of such inversion which I myself observed in operation among the peasantry of North Central Ceylon ; brothers were always rated as elder-brother /younger-brother and in a relationship of inequality and restraint , whereas brothers-in-law always treated one another as equals and were in a relationship of joking familiarity . |
| 6 | There are extraordinary cases , however , and in a story anything can happen , even the digestion of tables . |
| 7 | The company has set up focus groups to talk to large US PC users , but has n't yet hit on a magic formula that will allow it to get at users directly and in a cost effective way . |
| 8 | The Anglicans were divided — the stoutest of Irish Protestants versus a few stiff Anglo-Catholic parishes ; and in a fight the sympathies of Ramsey 's parish lay with the second . |
| 9 | And in a poll on who gets sexual satisfaction , British females are at the bottom . |
| 10 | There was a bid by Banbury School to opt out of local control , and in a poll among the parents sixty two percent voted against the Governor 's proposals to become the first school in Oxfordshire to leave County Council control . |
| 11 | Even the amount of time saved by not having to fiddle with reel-to-reel tapes is noticeable , and in a home environment where space is at a premium it helps with the problem of tape storage . |
| 12 | And in a country whose language has become the world 's lingua franca its literary culture is its culture . |
| 13 | It is tea and scones — and where else can you get a good cup of tea or a decent scone , or real beer , as the hero of one of C. S. Lewis 's space-fictions reflects as he returns to earth and finds himself — miraculously and blissfully — in England and in a country village . |
| 14 | The trouble which a political interest could encounter , however , came when friends of the political interest fell out over a choice of minister , and in a country which took its religion seriously that was all too easy to do , and that in turn opened the road to intrigue by political enemies . |
| 15 | ‘ Mediocrity seeks to endure by every means , ’ he said of these lions , and in a country where so much has disappeared the lions remain , unferocious , glum , like doped circus animals . |
| 16 | Ralph Pike was positively radiating doom by now and in a country like Latvia such radiations are quickly picked up . |
| 17 | But that opportunity is circumscribed , nonetheless , and in a country where Rupert Murdoch , Robert Maxwell and Lord Rothermere , with their powerful and partisan views , control 80 per cent of national newspapers , there is an understandable reluctance to give their newspapers a blank cheque to attack political enemies . |
| 18 | Landry reads concealed eroticism in various female personifications , and in a landscape which , she admits , contains at least one heterosexual image . |
| 19 | As party chairman Sir Norman Fowler is used to being asked why … here he took his role literally … and in a keynote speech appealed for unity at the grass roots . |
| 20 | And in a pit of mud , what bubbles ? |
| 21 | In quite outrageously comic and very skilful sequences of movement , mime and clowning , they attempt courtship , and in a shower of champagne that misses more often than it hits the glass , approach the great unknown of the wedding night . |
| 22 | He denied fondling Miss Van Den Berghen at the party and in a taxi later . |
| 23 | That 's very effective if you 're dealing with factual information which is changing fairly rapidly , and I think we 'll see quite a growth of that in the next few years , but libraries are n't just stores of factual information ; they store a large number of books and articles and they need access to that too , and probably the most typical external use of a computer in libraries and in a university library , academic library , these days is to access the huge stores of information on scientific publishing . |
| 24 | Warren Farm will also be open to the whole community as well as the racers … and in a sport when they start as young as five year old Carl Stanton that 's no bad thing . |
| 25 | The oldest woman in the refuge had worked as a railway clerk , in a sausage factory , a pop factory and in a factory making bingo boards until she stopped working a few years earlier and was put on invalidity benefit . |
| 26 | It was a situation which could not be tolerated , and in a revolution led by Rudolf Brun the nobles were overthrown , and Brun , as Zurich 's first burgomaster , divided the power between the patricians and the craft guilds . |
| 27 | And Miss Plum walks through the playground carrying two heavy bags , and in a flash I am beside her , smiling a face full of teeth like Tom in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 28 | I remembered her in colour and in a clothe as a vital , pretty woman . |
| 29 | Mr Wakerley said Sams denied any knowledge of the kidnap and murder of Julie and in a confession to the Stephanie plot admitted making ‘ one huge error ’ by discussing his ransom plans as a joke with another person . |
| 30 | ‘ And in a couple of months we 'll be in the sunshine ’ . |