Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 2 | The greatest surprise came when in 1935 Warner Bros released Black Fury , a movie which depicted in a direct and totally unprecedented way the impact of a strike on a coal-mining community . |
| 3 | To ensure that its courtship sounds are heard , the male mole cricket builds an amplifier which works in a similar way to the horn of an old gramophone . |
| 4 | In the equal-opportunities field observers can analyse the talk which occurs in a mixed class . |
| 5 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 6 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 7 | Is it possible to summarize the relationships you find in a linear causal model ? |
| 8 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , seen as a front-runner for the chief executive post at IBM Corp , is described by the Wall Street Journal as an exuberantly eccentric Texas hacker and outdoorsman who lives in a converted electrical substation with exposed plumbing , a massive crane hanging from the ceiling , and an elaborate concert hall ’ — sounds just the man for the task of turning IBM around . |
| 9 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 10 | The day after the Dent Blanch we indulged in a prolonged breakfast of copious coffee , yesterday 's paper and a plateful of croissants before joining the tourist throng on the Montenvers railway . |
| 11 | From anger and animosity he turned in a split second to a benevolent caring brother only here to see justice done . |
| 12 | Each had long hair which flowed in a golden mane down her back ; and despite the difference in age , they were of similar height . |
| 13 | The upshot was a story which appeared in a tabloid newspaper during the World Cup headlined : ‘ Gus : Love on the Dole ’ . |
| 14 | Such comparisons suggest a fixed set of symbols or rules which operate in a fixed way , whereas this is only partially true of language . |
| 15 | Furthermore , he locates knowledge production at the level of thought , as it were , untainted by the influence of ideology which operates in a practical world ( bound by social practices and traditions ) . |
| 16 | It is worth going to Eira da Serrado , just above Curral das Freiras , for an amazing view down onto the village of Curral das Freiras which nestles in a spectacular deep valley . |
| 17 | This incident kept us in Yarmouth the following morning for a court case which resulted in a heavy fine for the erring skipper . |
| 18 | A candidate for the degree of DPhil is expected , in addition , to complete successfully a programme of work which results in a significant contribution to knowledge . |
| 19 | However , ever since an incident with a chicken which resulted in a bald-arsed chicken and a dog with a mouthful of feathers , I 've kept him on a lead whenever I 've been near a farmyard . |
| 20 | Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour . |
| 21 | Design : a liquid soap suitable for washing hands and clothing which comes in a compact plastic tube with a flip top lid . |
| 22 | After a demoralising season of gallery retractions and closures , more severe than even the most pessimistic expectations of a year ago , it is gratifying to report a promising new gallery which opened in a large industrial space in West Hampstead in the middle of last month . |
| 23 | According to a number of articles which appeared in a special series devoted to the ‘ chuguo chao ’ in Guangming Ribao early in 1988 , young intellectuals generally felt oppressed by their circumstances . |
| 24 | THE funeral was taking place today of Comber businessman Ken McWhinney who died in a tragic flying accident at an air rally in the Republic on Sunday . |
| 25 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 26 | It allowed a maintained secondary school , or a primary school with over 300 pupils ( extended in 1990 to all primary schools ) , on the resolution of its governing body , with the consent of a majority of those parents who vote in a secret postal ballot , and with the approval of the Secretary of State , to opt out of LEA finance and control , and be given ‘ grant-maintained ’ status . |
| 27 | The couple are totally accepted by Linda 's middle-aged parents who live in a terraced house in Darlington . |
| 28 | The major was also writing to Emma and a mother-of-three who worked in a northern factory . |
| 29 | There 's a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley about a traveller in the desert who finds in a vast empty plain the feet of what once was a colossal statue , and engraved on the plaque below the feet are the words , |
| 30 | Blossom would have been a suitable name for the large oilman who arrived in a huge lorry to deliver the central heating oil . |