Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However there is no truth in the rumour that in order to utilise funds in some charitable way they purchased Pest Control London North in its entirety . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe that if we deal with both of these subjects in one such conference we risk overloading the boat . ’ |
| 3 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 4 | After several weeks in this empty terrain I began to reassess , or at least seriously question , the very nature of landscape painting of the usual sort where every prospect pleases . |
| 5 | By dressing up deprivation in this spatial vocabulary it is possible to hide the more unpalatable realities of economic restructuring , redundancy and exploitation . |
| 6 | Always an independent spirit , Rita nevertheless acknowledges certain strong influences in her movement career — Edith , Molly , Rita Horton , and in Coburg , Jutta Holler-von der Trenck ; she believes that her feeling for the importance of expression in movement , and her interest in the choreographing of taped music derive from her contact with Christa Haring , whose classes in Contemporary Dramatic Dance she attended . |
| 7 | Next year I am going to be very active in the theatre and I 've already this morning , sown the seed er for possibly er giving a particular performance er of one of the plays in this particular season I 'm going to do er for Save The Children Fund and I 've said |
| 8 | It was only to teach her a little lesson that I 'd added some nail-varnish remover to the ephedrine in that nasal spray she carried around everywhere . |
| 9 | It 's rather like DIY in that one day you may need a power saw to cut up some timber , the next a hand saw for some precision work . |
| 10 | To understand the precise position of the movies in this whole process we need first to look more closely at that activity which , at least superficially , seemed to be the direct ancestor of the cinema , that is music-hall or vaudeville . |
| 11 | After all , I do n't want to miss your opening in this wonderful part you told me about . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If a Welsh team wins the West title in some future season we will have no objection to their moving into England 's National League , ’ said Stephen Baines , the Hockey Association chief executive . |
| 13 | Roger , thank you very much , and good luck in this enormous project you 're undertaking . |
| 14 | Unpredictable escape patterns of this kind have been called ‘ protean ’ defence systems because like the figure of Proteus in ancient Greek mythology they repeatedly change their shape . |
| 15 | as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position . |
| 16 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 17 | If we were to express the interrelation of identity and participation in classical Hindu terminology we might say that while knowledge , jñāna , leads to action , karma , it is equally true that action leads to knowledge . |
| 18 | In extension of that consideration in this particular case it is to be noted that the imposition of the condition for supervision on T. 's half-sister 's access was restrictive of a freedom previously enjoyed . |
| 19 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 20 | As the delegated head of this wonderful club , I see my duties as follows : firstly to my wife and children ; secondly to other members of my family ; then to consolidate my assets in any profitable manner I choose ; and then to devote the rest of my time to the welfare of this club . |
| 21 | When teachers involved with LAMP began to allow their pupils to engage in mathematics in this broader way they found their pupils better able and more willing to question , to transfer and apply their mathematics and to sort out even quite difficult problems . |
| 22 | Without attempting here to formulate such a scheme in any comprehensive way I propose to consider some of the important elements which would enter into it . |
| 23 | Looking into those calm , assured faces in this odd setting I felt a stab of the futile longing to communicate that Alan Moorehead described on meeting a family of gorillas . |
| 24 | fit for the purpose in the general sense , it also means fit for the purpose in any particular sense you had made known to the shop . |
| 25 | Happier ? he said , his blue eyes fixed on my face in that mad way he sometimes has . |
| 26 | Then display it in the nice rosewood frame above the mantelpiece in that new home you 're now too poor to furnish ? |
| 27 | The shower is the only time in any twenty-four-hour period I take my underpants right off . |
| 28 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 29 | To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing . |
| 30 | He is an engaging young man and delights Rob by showing a marked and discriminating interest in any musical instrument he gets hold of . |