Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] [noun sg] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |
2 | There 's nothing wrong in that belief provided you do it properly . |
3 | I have long been interested in military technology so I was determined to attend the presentation . |
4 | Co-operative R&D ventures are interesting in this respect because they are a way of organizing the process of innovation which promises to minimize static inefficiencies without sacrificing dynamic efficiency . |
5 | Collective amnesia is far more prevalent in this culture than we would pretend . |
6 | In any case , father says that it would unusable in rough weather when they most need it . |
7 | Most of the other characters in the film were upright to their now expected formulae ; Joan Sims , Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Connor were members of the staff room — led by the formidable-as-ever Hattie Jacques , as the maths mistress who wore her gown and mortar board as much in this film as she had worn her matron 's uniform in the previous one . |
8 | So we see that all the problems of correlation are just as real in recent history as they are in the stratigraphical record , once we have lost the advantage of the date at the top of the newspaper or letter . |
9 | The coming of sound was probably crucial in this respect as it obviously placed a new emphasis on the contemporary American voice and on contemporary settings , which were in any case cheaper than conventional sets . |
10 | I seem to be more nervous in that way than I once was . |
11 | This is hard enough in our own lives but it is doubly hard in public work where it calls on people devoted to different ideals to work together in mutual acceptance , and that means not just tolerating one another but respecting and understanding what the other is talking about . |
12 | Decisions on these matters are as equally vital as industrial location but things are not so clear-cut in this sphere because it is subject to political controversy about the best means of achieving political goals . |
13 | It is not , however , as clear-cut in this country as it is on the continent . |
14 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
15 | She is very frightened of falling ill in that flat as she has no one to look after her ’ . |
16 | It is a bypass an and it , it 's good in that respect because it will do erm a lot indeed for people who live on Road , for example , people who live on Road and I know that Mrs knows that area particularly well and might agree with what Mr says that it , it does n't actually get into at all , therefore it 's er |
17 | Spearmen are particularly good in this role since they can bring an extra rank of spears to bear on any foes who charge them and this means that casualties suffered by the front ranks are less of a disaster . |
18 | So that all her figures are going to be all in one column so you can check them easily , you can add them up easily , you can find the total . |
19 | More probably sixty or seventy in this area if you 've got a good house . |
20 | Britain is particularly vulnerable in this matter because she does not have a written constitution . |
21 | But just as Geertz 's textually absent wife must have been present in reality , contributing to Geertz encounter with the Balinese , so women are also present in Balinese society though they may be absent from cockfighting . |
22 | This last convention is invaluable in early training because it helps to stabilise balance during the transfer from one foot to the other and is also valuable in such ballets as Birthday Offering as it echoes the period and style of Glazounov 's music . |
23 | Mr Mayor er I do n't want to be long in this debate because I 'm sure we 've probably all made up our minds exactly what we 're going to vote on because long evenings it stretches and turns |
24 | Secondly of course there are opportunities and limitations to your , the resources that you have and I 've mentioned resources before , they can be economic , military , your education system erm you know at the moment the government 's expanding higher education , going up , well we 've , we 've touched already I think thirty percent now in higher education one of the reasons for that is not just to , for self-fulfilment for those who are erm involved in higher education as I 'm sure you 're all self-fulfilling yourself here today , it 's because of what is perceived to be a national need for a highly educated workforce . |
25 | Followers of Gandhi explicitly maintain that he was essentially a practical man with no concern for metaphysics or philosophical speculation , yet it is clear that whenever he attempted to explain what he meant by Truth he was involved in metaphysical speculation whether he or his followers realized it or not . |
26 | Teachers have found their pupils well able to cope with the frustrations and floundering inherent in mathematical challenge provided it is in a supportive atmosphere or environment , where the process of struggle is viewed as successful in itself . |
27 | it 's not as , it 's not as , it 's not as if they 're right in that corner as you come in from , from er Farnsfield , a a a as Mike said there 's a twenty foot fe hedge there , which is going to be kept . |
28 | This purely pictorial device is something we should never have imagined possible in fifth-century sculpture if we did not have it before us . |
29 | Disabled people tend to be under-represented in mainstream provision whether it be YTP , JTP , ACE or Enterprise Training . |
30 | Algebraic quantities remaining essentially unchanged under a change in coordinates are important in coordinatised geometry since they correspond to intrinsic geometric properties . |