Example sentences of "[adj] in a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A scattering of cottages , an idyllically set Tudor Manor house and , a few hundred yards away , a church dating from Norman times ; all this in a peaceful valley of a tributary of the Looe River . |
| 2 | They must prove to Thadeus that they 're here to destroy what he hates , and they 've got to do this in a reasonable period of time . |
| 3 | He had used this in a practical way in solving problems with which the helicopter abounds . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no difference between doing this in a small place like Northwich and closing down a pit in a mining village . ’ |
| 5 | It was a bit clichéd , but what did people expect in a boring hotel like this in a boring town like this in a boring country like this ? |
| 6 | It was a bit clichéd , but what did people expect in a boring hotel like this in a boring town like this in a boring country like this ? |
| 7 | Despite Moldova 's consent to this in a parliamentary vote on July 7 ( by 225 to three with nine abstentions ) , Byelarus , Romania and Bulgaria declined to participate , calling for the use of Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) mechanisms . |
| 8 | We showed this in a previous study of the isolated perfused procine duodenum . |
| 9 | It occurs to me now that the man might just possibly have meant this in a humorous sort of way ; that is to say , he intended it as a bantering remark . |
| 10 | Patrick O'Brian , surely the most closely related of Marryat 's successors , understands very well that rare concomitant of the adventure story , the effective partnership of mind and body in action , and displays this in a continuing group of adult novels which give a notable unlaboured picture of the Nelson era . |
| 11 | Try to place this in a quiet corner of the room away from the door , especially if you have young children . |
| 12 | We shall show this in an uncomplicated way in a diagram which illustrates the classification of words : In terms of this diagram , nouns , for example , contrast directly with adjectives , but only indirectly with prepositions . |
| 13 | But his procedure was different in an important way from any we have examined so far ; rather than counting the variants of a postulated underlying syntactic variable , he examined variation in the surface exponence of four semantic categories : hot news , resultative , extended now and indefinite anterior , exemplified by 39 , 40 , 43 and 44 . |
| 14 | This concern was linked with Marx 's anthropological work , as made clear in a famous letter to the Russian socialist Vera Zasulich . |
| 15 | At the end of the following year , in December 1980 , the CGLI submitted its own proposals for the constitution of the validating body and , eventually , in July 1981 , the government 's position was made clear in a ministerial statement to parliament . |
| 16 | This does not mean that names are always replaceable in a straightforward fashion by descriptive phrases . |
| 17 | A WEEK 'S self-catering in a Standard room at Somerwest in August will cost a family of four £504 . |
| 18 | The blonde was good-looking in a cheeky sort of way . |
| 19 | For example , cancer of the hard palate is found worldwide but is fairly rare ; however , the prevalence is very high in a certain area of South America . |
| 20 | The narrow strip of tarmac , not enclosed by fences , winds free in a continuous search for easy passage . |
| 21 | THE Mangiamo cookbook , containing 300 pages of Italian recipes with a healthy Californian flavour , is available free in a special promotion of August Sebastiani wines . |
| 22 | I made my very first TV appearance at 12 in a six-part series on Alexander Graham Bell with Alec McCowen , Francesca Annis and Judy Geeson . |
| 23 | Strikes and protests were called off by the nationalists pending the outcome of the discussions , which ended on Jan. 12 in an apparent climb-down by the nationalists , all participants in the " public council " endorsing a draft declaration which upheld the Dec. 29 decisions on minority rights . |
| 24 | This yearning for former glories was already manifest in a particular kind of sentimentality and nostalgia . |
| 25 | Despite two late goals by MBS , the BNFL side hung on to win 4–3 in a thrilling encounter in the Midlands . |
| 26 | The Ford Foundation was interested in a specific agenda in funding philanthropically inclined research into urban crisis in the USA in the late 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 27 | If you are talking about more general studies or if you did a non-vocational course at college or university you should show how this demonstrates that you are capable of becoming interested in a wide range of subjects and could bring the same enthusiasm to your work . |
| 28 | She is particularly interested in a possible relationship between choice of variant and communicative function , hypothesizing that the plural morpheme is less likely to be realized as [ ? ] when ambiguity results ; compare for example 31 and 32 : |
| 29 | Its members will also assist Somervillians interested in a legal career with advice and offers of work experience and mini-pupillages . |
| 30 | We are only interested in a democratic solution to the crisis , ’ Mr Lacayo said . |