Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time it occurred to Katherine as a conscious thought that he might find life with her mother a trial in ways which did n't only concern her . |
| 2 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 3 | Land has both an economic function and a function in terms of personal and social esteem : |
| 4 | I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools . |
| 5 | They talked a bit in whispers , then the other bloke , Dan Pearson , gave Blackbeard a letter , which he put in his wallet . |
| 6 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 7 | When the issue is not of a split in attitudes ( " I will compete but I will also borrow and lend " ) the head is unlikely to find enthusiasm or coercion an appropriate tool of management . |
| 8 | Safety equipment contributes directly to efficiency and productivity and indirectly to financial savings from a reduction in accidents . |
| 9 | ‘ There is evidence of a significant effort being made to improve safety but we must strive to achieve a reduction in accidents that matches the efforts , ’ said . |
| 10 | The deficit in Australia was down by almost a half following a reduction in claims costs and New Zealand maintained its excellent 1992 performance to produce an underwriting profit for the quarter . |
| 11 | I agree that price is important , but the only way to achieve a reduction in prices and an ability to expand is to adjust the exchange rate . |
| 12 | Karimov decreed a reduction in prices affecting students , and an increase in their grants ( one of the principal grievances of the demonstrators having been that the student grant had not kept pace with prices ) . |
| 13 | the average fall in sound pressure levels of four to five dB(A) was attributed to a decrease in the number of passing vehicles , to a reduction in speeds and to a change in driving style . |
| 14 | In any case a government committed to a reduction in taxes on incomes would not welcome the substitution of LIT for domestic rates ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 13 and 1986:23 ) . |
| 15 | The , perhaps the the points to make there , is that the bigger the ninety-four , five is er , getting on for four million pounds below the ninety-three , four level , and that reflects , firstly , a reduction in students grants , with a a corresponding increase in the amount available from student loans , and secondly , a reduction in the tuition fees payable as part of the mandatory award , er , in the light of direct , higher direct funding of higher education establishments . |
| 16 | LAST month 's improvement in Britain 's huge current account deficit was achieved despite a reduction in projections about the size of the country 's invisible earnings . |
| 17 | An additional $101 million is required to tackle pollution of land and sea , caused mainly by phosphate and chemical industries , through a reduction in discharges of sulphur dioxide , fluorine compounds and phosphate derivatives . |
| 18 | If a man who is a diabetic and who has arterial disease to the extent that this plaintiff had , is severely injured so that life is much more difficult to bear than otherwise it would have been , a defendant is in my view , quite unable , with justification , to say that a reduction in damages should thereby be brought about . |
| 19 | It is important that we introduce recycling initiatives that are environmentally friendly ; give , where necessary , a reduction in emissions ; and generate electricity where the opportunities arise . |
| 20 | The firm message from Whitehall last night was that Mrs Thatcher was not going to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Kuala Lumpur next week to propose a reduction in sanctions , although she would not agree to an increase in the measures already in place . |
| 21 | Early in February 1726 Montrose instructed his commissioner in Scotland to organise his friends to support the plan of a reduction in emoluments for the collector , believing that this would discourage the new candidates and ensure Kirkton 's re-election , for the duke was determined ‘ to stand by him upon the above terms , I mean of a smaller sellary for the future ’ . |
| 22 | But given the fixed level of those overall resources , the inevitable result has been a reduction in resources for the remainder of the school population . |
| 23 | Hopefully there will soon be a reduction in matches played , which will benefit the players and the England team . |
| 24 | It will mean a reduction in services . |
| 25 | Prior to erm Uruguay round negotiations , agriculture was always excluded from the negotiations right , whereas manufactured goods have been in there from the start , and as a result we 've seen a reduction in tariffs right , on manufactured goods that 's not to say that erm , protectionism on manufactured goods has fallen , it has in certain cases but not in all cases . |
| 26 | Alternatively , as many people do , you may look on retirement as the opportunity for a job switch ( with perhaps a reduction in hours ) or the chance you have always wanted of setting up on your own . |
| 27 | so erm , and that went on for , I suppose till the end of the war when er , when we had a reduction in hours again , we went back to the normal nine till half past five . |
| 28 | Francis Place described the same process among London 's leather-breeches makers in 1793 , the book binders built up theirs over four years before striking for a reduction in hours , and the calico printers seem to have been constantly engaged in building and rebuilding strike funds . |
| 29 | The recently published Medical Research Council trial showed a reduction in strokes but no significant reduction in coronary events . |
| 30 | because it means a reduction in forces in in all these |