Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may seem a little absurd since the buyer in possession may well not be a mercantile agent . |
| 2 | At this point I was a little drowsy and the weakness in my joints had increased . |
| 3 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
| 4 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 5 | Not only that but a drought in Maharashtra in 1987 and 1988 , probably the most severe of the century in the subcontinent , has caused barely a ripple of news interest in the world . |
| 6 | Not only that but a change in methods of working , in its ethos and what were seen as its privileges , such as index-linked pensions , was to follow . |
| 7 | It is in fact an underground river so extensive that the trip in a flat-bottomed boat lasts twenty-five minutes . |
| 8 | His count , apparently , was sufficiently high but the motility in this , and subsequent samples , was disappointingly low . |
| 9 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 10 | The prose which preoccupied Milton during the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods was to be seen as separate and certainly intrinsically less interesting than the poetry in which Parker portrays Milton participating in some universalised European humanism . |
| 11 | As she watched him leave , without so much as a glance in her direction , such a feeling of desolation had swept over Isabel that she had almost cried out . |
| 12 | Savouring the sweet taste of his victory , he did not even acknowledge the Controller 's presence by so much as a glance in his direction . |
| 13 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 14 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 15 | At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation . |
| 16 | And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played . |
| 17 | She was smaller than Jenna with none of Jenna 's slender , willowy height , but she was so healthy-looking that the fact in itself gave her an added attraction . |
| 18 | With a stifled sob Perdita stumbled upstairs , slamming the door so hard that every ornament in the house shook . |
| 19 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 20 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 21 | However , it is extremely unlikely that the increase in the budget will equal the value of the grant : for it to do so would suggest that the recipient would spend everything on this good . |
| 22 | For many years , courts in the United States failed to understand the Latin American approach ; the failure was so fundamental that a plaintiff in a Latin American republic had no means of serving process on a defendant in the United States . |
| 23 | Our home was much smaller than the house in Štanjel , which by comparison seemed a palace . |
| 24 | Securing a day care place is often extremely important if a child in need is to remain within the family . |
| 25 | Not much worse than a tumble in the hunting field . ’ |
| 26 | With a smile so radiant that the light in heaven itself sparkled , she leapt into action . |
| 27 | The shops are so small that the person in the shop sees every corner , though there are no cameras . |
| 28 | Clause 79 provides for discount where there is only one or no resident in the property . |
| 29 | The quality of the wood is very reasonable ; as with many other guitars the grain at the edges is much wider than the grain in the middle , but it 's a good overall colour and free of blemishes . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend makes an important point , and one which is especially relevant when the divergence in the performance of the economies of Europe is still so great . |