Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] in a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a lifetime of line-ups by the sound of things , I say in a rather low voice . |
| 2 | I shout in a very loud voice that the Republic of Iraq will pay well for atomic scientists . |
| 3 | But your , your point about not being very er positive the interviews that I do I , I do in a very relaxed manner . |
| 4 | I think in a very general way that men perhaps should be encouraged to realize that women also want to speak up for themselves . |
| 5 | To coin a phrase by John , I live in a very small house said Confucius , but my windows look out on a very large world . |
| 6 | I work in a very male dominated field and the amount |
| 7 | I work in a very intuitive way rather than in a calculated manner . |
| 8 | Initial identification of variables has not generally been discussed as a problem , presumably because linguistic elements of English which vary in a socially patterned manner are often very salient and sometimes rather general throughout the English-speaking world . |
| 9 | The purpose here essentially is to outline what we know as a prelude to tackling the themes and patterns which emerge in a more analytical way in subsequent chapters . |
| 10 | Shot through with sermonising , piety , and concern for good government , they are ostensibly valuable sources on the law- giving activities of these kings , who appear in a very favourable light . |
| 11 | you 're relax you speak in a totally different way . |
| 12 | For those who view in a broadly positive light the reforming thrust of the 1931–3 governments , the fate of the Republic is to be explained by the underlying polarization within Spanish society , the inevitable conflicts which democracy therefore released , the obduracy of the conservative and the privileged , and the unwillingness of the main party of the right , the CEDA , to accept the Republic and the readjustment of wealth necessary to make democracy work . |
| 13 | You live in a very black and white world . |
| 14 | ‘ You live in a very remote place , ’ he said obliquely . |
| 15 | In short , we would wish to order and organize what we do in a morally respectable and defensible way . |
| 16 | We live in a tremendously reactionary era . |
| 17 | But I would hope we live in a more enlightened age . |
| 18 | We live in a very unequal society |
| 19 | We live in a very competitive age . ’ |
| 20 | All adults need to be able to cope with diversity and to expect variety as we live in a highly varied world . |
| 21 | We live in a highly mobile society where the norm is to live in small nuclear family groups , probably many miles away from the rest of the family and maybe having very little physical contact or communication with other members of the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 22 | Editors might argue that because we live in a highly competitive world in which authors , readers , and advertisers can all go elsewhere with ease we are already sufficiently accountable . |
| 23 | ‘ We work in a very haphazard way , ’ muses Jim , the mixing desk whizz who used to be in , um , Altered Images . |
| 24 | Immediately on his return from Gosol , while Gertrude Stein was still in Italy , he repainted the face , using the conventions of Iberian sculpture , although , since he was anxious to achieve a likeness , they appear in a slightly modified form . |
| 25 | Goody suggests that written language has two main functions : the first is the storage function which permits communication over time and space , and the second is that which ‘ shifts language from the oral to the visual domain' and permits words and sentences to be examined out of their original contexts , ‘ where they appear in a very different and highly ‘ abstract ’ context' ( 1977 : 78 ) . |
| 26 | And my suspicion is they put in a selectively low bid on that particular job . |
| 27 | However , for the attitudinist , they function in a perfectly intelligible way in a discourse which explores relations of consistency and inconsistency between various possible and actual attitudes . |
| 28 | The purpose of this is usually to allow students the opportunity to use language they know in a less controlled situation . |
| 29 | Most women who arrive at the prison have been subjected to brutal torture and a prolonged stay in a secret prison , They arrive in a very weak condition from which many are unable to recover because of the inadequate food and health facilities , Two doctors visit the prison , but they are very negligent , in part , as one Prisoner explained , because their pay is always in arrears . |
| 30 | But they live in a physically impoverished environment which provides far fewer amenities than the average long-stay ward — the cost is often less than a third that of a hospital bed . |