Example sentences of "[adv] in a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport . |
| 2 | Sometimes an older child made a deliberate choice to do so , having already got to know them well , but others could find themselves suddenly in a new home with no say at all . |
| 3 | An eerie shiver as she woke the next morning , suddenly in a cold landscape for which she had no bearings . |
| 4 | The valley ended quite suddenly in a massive amphitheatre of surrounding mountains rising to 7,000 ft , and as it had been a cold spring there was still a lot of snow . |
| 5 | The wheel , of 16 feet diameter , and most of the machinery is still intact although apparently in a poor state of repair . |
| 6 | The inquest opened at 2.45pm in a small court in Dukes Street . |
| 7 | There was no evidence , however , that older material was necessarily in a greater state of disrepair than more modern publications . |
| 8 | But addiction to chemicals is clearly real , and there seems no reason to believe that compulsive chemical-taking is necessarily in a different class from other acquired compulsive habits . |
| 9 | Cook it very gently in a covered pot for about z /z hours . |
| 10 | Well , especially in a long road like this . |
| 11 | Perhaps this has receded a little into the background in modern life , especially in a literate society with easy recourse to television , books and newspapers . |
| 12 | ‘ I do think visitors to this country like to know they 're in Scotland , especially in a large hotel like the Sheraton where you could be anywhere . ’ |
| 13 | Being in unhorsey vet in Yorkshire was a penance at times , especially in a racing stable like this which was an equine shrine . |
| 14 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 15 | 3.3 The Licensed Products shall be marked legibly in a permanent manner with one or more of the Trade Marks and a statement that they include the Work under licence from . |
| 16 | they found a room large enough in a dark part of Nightside and after clearing out the bugs , milkcrates , music stands and rusty oil drums , used it as a workshop . |
| 17 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 18 | She was dressed simply enough in a brown gown with a lacy ruff round the neck but she would have outshone any queen . |
| 19 | Cusack scored on his debut , but it was n't enough in a 4–2 defeat at Swansea , and Quakers remained in an all too familiar third from bottom . |
| 20 | However , it was all in a good cause as the sponsored walk organised by accounts supervisor Andrena Cowan , raised £1,300 towards the cost of an Ultra Sound Scanner . |
| 21 | Discovered alone in a remote cottage with a young female whose brother had once described her as ‘ a don , alas , but a dish when she takes the trouble , ’ had he quite deliberately misled the newcomer ? |
| 22 | By the end of it , some members may have forgotten the reasons for the whole idea , so let us recap briefly : there are economies of scale , certainly , though the addition of 6,500 members to 100,000 does not in itself produce any great saving in CIB operating costs ( we used to recruit nearly three times that number of new members from the banks alone in a good year in the 1980s ) ; there is potential recruitment , from more than 60,000 building society employees ; but , above all , the merger demonstrates to the public that two major parts of the much maligned financial services sector are keen to improve their standards , and gives commercial rivals an exceptional opportunity to enjoy the benefits of co-operation in educational endeavour . |
| 23 | I had only pretended I did n't know , preferring to see things as I would like them to be , rather than as they were , imprisoning myself in a ramshackle edifice of lies because I could n't bear to knock it down and start again , shivering and alone in a great expanse of sand . |
| 24 | This was her place now , alone in a darkened room with no one to care what became of her . |
| 25 | The pike is perhaps in a similar difficulty as a human who is trying to hit a moving tennis ball when someone throws a second ball across his visual field ; it makes it more difficult to hit the ball . |
| 26 | This in turn implies increased autonomy for assessing practitioners resulting perhaps in a new level of autonomy and new systems of accountability . |
| 27 | As for the comments on the guaranteeing role of banks and letters of credit in paragraph 2 above , this documentary collection system relies on further support in order to avoid recourse to the courts [ perhaps in a foreign law in a foreign country ] to rectify default on a documented payment obligations . |
| 28 | While the basic aim of a service should be to provide people with ordinary homes of their own , there are many former long-term hospital patients who would not wish to live alone after many years of living in close proximity to other patients ; such people may feel more comfortable living in a three- or four-person flat or house , or perhaps in a sheltered group of flatlets where communal dining rooms and recreational facilities echo the arrangements in ordinary sheltered accommodation for elderly people . |
| 29 | She fumbled feverishly in a fancy box on the table for a paper handkerchief . |
| 30 | He laughed again , obviously in a good humour for the night . |