Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 2 | As a letter to me at Merstham dated I May 1939 indicated , Eliot was polite about the article in question : |
| 3 | He had been somewhat apprehensive about the encounter in view of the way their last meeting had ended , but fortunately she seemed to have put her irritation behind her . |
| 4 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 5 | Only if all new investment in the firm has to be financed from retained earnings is it possible for an increase in dividends to reduce net investment and thereby reduce the ability of the firm to deliver real income in the future . |
| 6 | I was asked to be discreet as the lady in question , a possible grand-daughter living on the island , was of affluent mien and might not like to be reminded of her origins . |
| 7 | The position was that as a sub-librarian in Plymouth . |
| 8 | This anomaly became even more striking as the increase in merchant prosperity was accompanied by deterioration in the economic position of the ruling class . |
| 9 | In considering a government summary table , it must first be recognized that the raw data were probably collected with no specific use in mind and therefore , almost inevitably , too much detail is given or the format is unsuitable for the purpose in hand . |
| 10 | The need to build an adequate base is not only relevant to the pioneer missionary situation , but also to many run-down , inner city locations — only here the problems are even greater because of a history of decline , premises which are impossible to maintain in good order and totally unsuitable for the task in hand , and demands made upon inadequate resources by the needy people in the community and overstretched social services trying to meet their needs . |
| 11 | He was eventually to undertake six campaigns in Lombardy to subdue and punish rebellious cities , grown rich through the boom in manufacturing and commerce , and increasingly independent of the old feudal authority . |
| 12 | Her singing sounds alright but there are plenty of kids who could do that after a whirl in Stock , Aitken and Waterman 's mixmaster . |
| 13 | Would she want to tell those people outside anything different about the situation in South Africa now ? |
| 14 | Substitution of numbers for 52 per cent could do this for an words in formulae easy standing charge and number of units ' formula and 17 per cent for an electricity bill ( p.61 ) . |
| 15 | Some observers interpreted this as a manoeuvre in preparation for a shift in Kadhafi 's position on the extraditions . |
| 16 | Professor James Torrance , I know , sees this as a weakness in Calvinism , and it can not be denied that , despite the Reformation , a great deal of this legalism passed over into Protestantism . |
| 17 | Added to this is the perpetual insecurity reserve police suffer as a result of the management 's control over the renewal of their contract : and sergeants are not averse to using this as a threat in parades . |
| 18 | Mary Richardson , who suffered from depressions , committed suicide in November 1895 during a stay in Hastings with her daughter Dorothy . |
| 19 | However elaborate ( indeed , contrived ) this theorizing may be , it is still not wholly adequate for the task in hand . |
| 20 | And they are now getting to the point where they are are popular as the folders in terms of |
| 21 | It was also , she supposed , foolish for a woman in times like these to walk about alone at night . |
| 22 | True , PR at times prevents complete clear-outs of government ; but the parties that stay in office , despite swings among voters , are usually small , as in Germany ( Italy is a special case ; its large Communist party was not acceptable as an alternative in government to the Christian Democrats ) . |
| 23 | Defending the indefensible As the crisis in Romania deepens the role of the armed forces is crucial . |
| 24 | There 's another scenario for the house on stilts , one for Jordan 's cottage and still another for the house in Salvation Street . ’ |
| 25 | Each man would wear an individual set of breathing apparatus and as each group got clear of the gas in Bank mine the equipment would be taken back into Knockshinnoch by rescuers and used by another group of three men . |
| 26 | Even the soldiers , when they are drunk , keep clear of the area in case they stumble and start the bell tolling . ’ |
| 27 | I think that we must wait and see what his detailed policies will be , but everything that I have seen and heard suggests that he is certainly very understanding of the situation in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | They proposed to sell half of a property in Kent for around $55M , to which the banks would agree subject to cross-collaterisation . |
| 29 | Wattling 's father was in the army , and his mother spent half of the year in Singapore or wherever he happened to be stationed , so his state was even more bereft than Tilney 's , whose parents were divorced but whose father was stationed less than fifty miles away . |
| 30 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |