Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central feature of the vast complex is a Formula One racetrack , curving round an extinct volcano in such a way that the entire circuit can be viewed from one vantage point . |
| 2 | If you do muddle up the crowd-flow arrangements , Over-stretch the facilities or pick an unsuitable venue in the first place , you cause enormous distractions from the event and the message . |
| 3 | In an enthralling match in which Bailey served nine aces in the first set and with a tie-break in the final set , the match was poised for either player to win . |
| 4 | We are aware , in the novels we read , both of an authorial identification with the leading character or the first-person narrator , and of material that might constitute an authorial judgement in that respect : but we do n't know what the verdict is . |
| 5 | In the event of an attempted assault in such a situation a member of staff will need to take appropriate measures to defend themselves . |
| 6 | Jack Price had hurried to the phone and informed Dockhead police station that there was an attempted robbery in progress at the Clark Wharf . |
| 7 | A German tourist has been shot dead by a lone gunman in an attempted robbery in Scotland , his wife and daughter are seriously injured . |
| 8 | An attempted coup in August was frustrated by the timorous behaviour of the Abuna , who stayed away from a crucial meeting . |
| 9 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 10 | On Oct. 25 a further 12 people , including two civilians , were convicted for their part in an attempted coup in April 1990 [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 11 | The Iranian news agency IRNA reported on Oct. 3 that former Prime Minister Sa'adoun Hammadi [ for whose dismissal in September see p. 38452 ] had been involved in an attempted coup in September against President Saddam Hussein after which 76 army officers had been executed . |
| 12 | After a period of political upheaval precipitated by an attempted coup in March 1990 [ see pp. 37314-15 ] , the government lifted the state of emergency in May and endorsed constitutional amendments aimed at ending the PDPA 's monopoly on political power [ for its renaming in June see p. 37530 ] and introducing multiparty democracy . |
| 13 | On April 14 , the Spanish EFE news agency quoted a statement signed by four division generals , 19 colonels and one air force brigadier , describing themselves as the Guararapes group , who warned that the current situation was " identical " with that in Venezuela , subject of an attempted coup in February [ see pp. 38759-60 ] and Peru , where President Fujimori seized power with army support on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 14 | Iskandarov 's Islamic coalition had survived an attempted coup in October by supporters of the former communist President Rakhmon Nabiyev , whose removal from power in September sparked off a smouldering civil war [ see pp. 39097-98 ; 39147 ] . |
| 15 | ‘ ... encouraging people to be homosexual ... is an absurd notion in any case . |
| 16 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 17 | The nauseating taste of the worm-cakes and the humiliation of the treatment were only outweighed by the sheer relief of being freed from an incessant itching in his backside . |
| 18 | There is , however , another dimension to the debate , and this appears from the CLRC 's view that , where reckless driving causes death , this should not affect the label of the offence but may be treated as an aggravating factor in sentencing in appropriate cases . |
| 19 | As a general principle , the status of a person made the subject of an assault is a matter to be considered by the tribunal as an aggravating factor in sentencing , rather than an ingredient in the substantive description of the offence . |
| 20 | Catherine Allsopp ran an intelligently-paced race in the 800 metres , finishing third in 2 mins 11.36 secs . |
| 21 | ‘ Donny ’ , as he was affectionately known , served as an auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Glasgow from 1977 . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 23 | The storm damage was not treated as a consequence of the collision but as an intervening event in the course of an ordinary voyage . |
| 24 | The techniques themselves are identical whether the variable being controlled is a prior or an intervening variable in the relationship being investigated . |
| 25 | These transformations of legal systems do not necessarily represent an insidious increase in the growth of a hidden power elite , although radical authors expect this result . |
| 26 | But they are much more akin to many modern skyscrapers : they rather symbolize the social ambitions of their makers — and the comparative difficulty of self-expression on an ample scale in the crowded streets of a medieval city . |
| 27 | At a corner table , three men and an ample woman in an apron played cards noisily , the slap of the cards punctuated by bursts of virtuoso coughing , that cavernous café cough which echoes up from the boots . |
| 28 | The argument is that if firms find that they are producing more than is being demanded , they will observe an involuntary increase in their inventories of unsold goods and so will rectify this by cutting back on production and laying off workers . |
| 29 | To what extent does its dependence on charitable donations make it an involuntary party in the game of denial ? |
| 30 | When the film finally ran out of their cameras , an ambisexual person in headphones said , ‘ Can you give us a funny line to get people to watch Telethon , Maureen ? ’ and ‘ Action ! ’ |