Example sentences of "[adv] in a [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 2 | Mr Salmond rejected claims that he had made the issue a question of confidence and said he was ‘ relaxed ’ at the prospect of a challenge , adding : ‘ I think that is a rather far fetched possibility , but obviously in a democratic party everyone has the right to stand for national convener . ’ |
| 3 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
| 4 | But it does so in a relativistic way which needs to be examined with care . |
| 5 | ‘ It says so in a little book I got from Our Lady 's Bookshop . |
| 6 | What was your priorities when you were doing that , what were your priorities as far as , was it to get it all down or was it just to get in down in a particular way what what do you see as the priorities when you were talking about doing it ? |
| 7 | The-other four Goshawk aircraft came down in an angled line which allowed each gun to rake the target from nose to tail in a continuous devastation of bullets . |
| 8 | ( When notes are close together in a low register they sound crude and clumsy , and fail to give a good bass to the harmony . |
| 9 | You could even have these put together in a special album which will add to your happy memories in the days and years to come . |
| 10 | Mark turned , just as the dogs took off together in a huge leap which struck him in the chest , knocking him backwards into the boot where he sat , legs dangling , with both arms wrapped around the excited dogs . |
| 11 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 12 | The remnants of feudalism , the Tsar , and the old landowning nobility , must first be swept away in a bourgeois revolution which would inaugurate the full flowering of capitalism . |
| 13 | Tonight in a special report we look at how the Forest has been abused in the past , and how it 's still going on today . |
| 14 | This will be developed further in a later section which describes the binomial and Black-Scholes option pricing models . |
| 15 | Sales of Guinness fell slightly in a national market which shrank by up to 5 per cent . |
| 16 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 17 | His portable laboratory is set up in a small tent which is unbearably hot , and could well do without the added heat from his bunsen burner . |
| 18 | The process begun under Edward I was continued in July 1333 when , at Halidon Hill , outside Berwick , the English showed that they had learned to coordinate the use of ‘ traditional ’ cavalry with the ‘ new ’ archer force , the combination on this occasion being that of archers and dismounted men-at-arms drawn up in a defensive position which showed what successes a measure of flexibility could bring to an army led by men willing to experiment . |
| 19 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 20 | Those coal heavers , weavers , sailors , labourers and others of the lower orders who took to the streets in 1768 were to a large extent caught up in a political moment which coincided with longer-running economic grievances . |
| 21 | Lloyd is caught up in a worldwide agreement which limits a foreign-based jockey to a 30-day stay . |
| 22 | We grew up in a heterosexual culture which banishes positive images of homosexuality . |
| 23 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 24 | Coming up in a little while we 'll be talking greyhounds , but for now we 'll go back to football and deal with the local classified results with all the local leagues . |
| 25 | Her eyes filled with tears , but she made no attempt to blink them away , too caught up in an internal struggle which she knew could determine her life forever after . |
| 26 | Now one of the things that Ronnie Reagan was disappointed to find was that in order really to address his budget deficit , he cut federal aid to the states but he did it er dressed it up in an ideological argument which said you know that the government is too big , government is too intrusive , government should get off the backs of the people , you know , er we should n't go to government to solve our problems , government is the problem , that 's one of the , one of Ronnie 's other memorable phrases . |
| 27 | The situation in London in 1974 was very different from that one year later in a northern authority which commented that ‘ getting a developer to build anything is , in our eyes , a planning gain' . |
| 28 | Probably in a good mood you got ta carry on |
| 29 | He requested her to parcel up most carefully in an oiled cloth his other gun and have it sent to him . |
| 30 | But early evidence of the implementation of audit and the battery of other quality initiatives in the NHS suggest that doctors , nurses , managers and other staff , not to mention consumers , still step delicately in a ritual dance which recognises established prerogatives and power . |