Example sentences of "[noun] in [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [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shops in his idealised suburb he says : ‘ First it was new-fangled , then fashionable , then merely commonplace , then out-of-date , then ( to the sophisticated ) attractively ‘ period ’ .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 | At one time , I used to think that living in our little villages we were safe from all the crime , but sadly , no . |
| 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 | After many years in its free-standing position it now finds itself neatly stacked against the side of the grandstand . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These morphological changes may be interpreted functionally in dietary terms as a change to a diet with hard fruit as the main constituent , and this may be related in turn to the drier and more seasonal environments they lived in , but as there was little change in their postcranial skeletons it is likely that they retained their ancestral arboreal locomotor pattern . |
| 9 | They took it on their on their They went with their ponies in their little barrels you see , and they went on horseback over it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although there is in effect already a common basic curriculum in our primary schools it will help to have an agreed statement . |
| 12 | That 's why David could say , against thee , thee only have I sinned after he 's committed adultery , after he 's committed murder , after he 's involved other people in his nefarious deeds he can still say I 've committed sin against God ! |
| 13 | Holding the dead creature in her right palm she squeezed the pink plasticine , the white coat , the cotton hair into one amorphous lump . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I walk from the petrol station to the store roughly 14 times a day and if I did n't have a pair of inner soles in my flat shoes I 'd cry ! ’ |
| 16 | When we first became friends in our early teens I 'd asked her if she fancied one of the young men in the village . |
| 17 | First , when governments want to make relatively large adjustments in their budgetary positions they may rely more upon changes in taxation than changes in public expenditures . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If we wish to preserve a landscape in its present form we must actively direct it towards that end . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name . |
| 24 | 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 . |