Example sentences of "[noun] in [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the example of an art nouveau dairy part of a Parade of shops in his idealised suburb he says : ‘ First it was new-fangled , then fashionable , then merely commonplace , then out-of-date , then ( to the sophisticated ) attractively ‘ period ’ . ’ |
| 2 | The most critical one in some ways is a change in the structure of our lower jaw , so instead of having a lot of bones in our lower jaw we have just a single bone in our lower jaw , the dentory , which articulates with a bone called the scremosal , whereas in reptiles the quadrate and articular for the articulation and those bones have now got stuck into our inner ear and do some stuff about conducting sound impulses . |
| 3 | As I gained confidence in their genuine goodwill I found that my sense of humour returned and I enjoyed making them laugh . |
| 4 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 5 | When we use fractions in our everyday life they have to be a fraction of something . |
| 6 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
| 7 | After many years in its free-standing position it now finds itself neatly stacked against the side of the grandstand . |
| 8 | As a person in her own right she takes up her destiny . |
| 9 | The married woman 's status is changing and from being a person in her own right she is becoming a chattel . |
| 10 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 11 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 12 | ‘ When we played St Helens in our first match we had nine players who had never competed together before , ’ he said . |
| 13 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 14 | If you arc prepared to invest a lot of time and money in your new kitchen you might consider making a sort of kitchen/living or family room ; a real ‘ heart of the home ’ area , more casual than a living room , more cosy than a working kitchen . |
| 15 | As a student in your last term you will begin to send out letters and photographs of yourself to all possible valuable contacts . |
| 16 | Holding the dead creature in her right palm she squeezed the pink plasticine , the white coat , the cotton hair into one amorphous lump . |
| 17 | If you are inspired to emulate the famous displays in your own garden you can even order bulbs to be sent to your home in the autumn ready for planting . |
| 18 | During the five minutes that he spoke about the Bill in his 52-minute speech he was floored by his own seconds — Conservative Back Benchers — when they expressed their concern . |
| 19 | Apart from representing a valuable resource in its own right it is important to note that water is paid for twice — in terms of metered supply and the effluent charge . |
| 20 | Erm if you like , you filled in all those boxes in your spare time you come up with a whole list of these follies of human beings . |
| 21 | As all these , including buddleia , flower in their second year they soon supply more seeds to the young sward . |
| 22 | If we wish to preserve a landscape in its present form we must actively direct it towards that end . |
| 23 | Thus , to test the restrictions in our simple example we would estimate equations ( 3.19 ) and ( 3.20 ) separately and , from the sum of square residuals for each regression , compute the F-test statistic given above ; then , compare the result with the critical F value , given the appropriate degrees of freedom , and reject the hypothesis that the restrictions are valid if the computed F statistic is higher than the critical value from tables of the F distribution . |
| 24 | When therefore he arrived home late on Friday night to find the grey thing with ears like knitted dishcloths in his favourite chair he was displeased . |
| 25 | Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken , immensely regrettable , brought about by fear and greed . |
| 26 | For the first time in her married life she saw pain in her husband 's eyes , as though she had plunged a knife into his body . |
| 27 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |