Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 2 | All this involves him in a vast amount of estate business as well as , he says with a mixture of relish and despair , ‘ this desperate business of patronage ’ . |
| 3 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 4 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 5 | In addition , even medium-sized plants can dominate the labour markets of small towns ( for example , in the cases of Westland at Yeovil and Clarks at Street ) , and this places them in a strong position in their dealings with the labour force ( Lever 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Put them in the top half of a double saucepan with the sugar , and steam them ( or if it is easier bake them in a covered jar in a low oven ) until they are quite soft . |
| 7 | PC Paul Lewis of Leicestershire Police , said : ‘ This shows us in an unfair light . |
| 8 | How ever , there is no doubt in my mind that it would be quite wrong to confine her in a geriatric home among seriously deranged patients . |
| 9 | Place the egg yolks in a small bowl , and half submerge it in a large saucepan of hot water . |
| 10 | This took me in a gentle curve round the flanks of Great Coum towards the Barbondale road , Combe House , the track past Tofts , and back to my home for tea and crumpets . |
| 11 | This puts them in the international master category , with the equivalent of a fide rating of 2000 . |
| 12 | This puts you in a strong position to counter-attack . |
| 13 | This left them in the ludicrous position of having to claim that , out of loyalty to their sovereign lady , they were embattled against their sovereign lady 's mother . |
| 14 | The castle changed hands many times during the Scottish Wars of Independence and remained a thorn in the crown until James V sacked it in the sixteenth century ; but before the level of the loch was raised in the 1930s , |
| 15 | Dampt disgrace that couple that done it in the Golden Divans . |
| 16 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 17 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 18 | I do not therefore mind leaving these matters in the safe hands of the Germans , just as many nations before 1914 were content to leave them in the safe hands of the British . |
| 19 | The second hit him in the right shoulder , the impact lifting him off his feet and sending him toppling towards the head of the stairs . |
| 20 | Specialist suppliers may also provide a cold-weld compound to seal joins where it 's impossible to lay it in a single sheet . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |
| 22 | On occasions a fortunate , or bemused , beneficiary received no less than three charters each confirming him in the legitimate enjoyment of the same right . |
| 23 | Frankly , none of that interests me in the slightest . |
| 24 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 25 | Especially unusual to find them in a Tyrian , because as a rule Tyrians only care about making money . |
| 26 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 27 | You may feed safer watching nature at second hand on the television , and would find it hard to rough it in an uncharted forest . |
| 28 | Woolf argues for improvements in prisons , not for their own sake , but because ‘ to treat prisoners in a way which is likely to leave them in an embittered and disaffected state on their release ’ will naturally lead to ‘ a deterioration in the ability of the prisoner to operate effectively and lawfully in society ’ . |
| 29 | I always said if I won the 100 it would be very hard to beat me in the 200 . |
| 30 | The design is exciting international interest ; Westinghouse has asked Nuclear Electric to join it in a joint bid for Taiwan 's new nuclear station on precisely this design . |