Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Securing a day care place is often extremely important if a child in need is to remain within the family . |
| 5 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 6 | The Road Traffic Act 1988 , s. 149 provides that volenti is not available where a passenger in a car sues the driver in circumstances where insurance is compulsory . |
| 7 | Even within one region economic and social change was not uniform but a fugue in which old voices do not cease to sound when new voices enter . |
| 8 | Dashing through the rain behind her came not Bheki but a man in his thirties or forties , slight , dapper , with a moustache . |
| 9 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 10 | Medication Imipramine ( a tricyclic antidepressant , Tofranil ) is the only drug that has been shown to be significantly more effective than a placebo in reducing wetting frequency . |
| 11 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |
| 12 | Coming from a country where the use of the appropriate word is more important than a gesture in daily life , both choreographers have resolved that words must be replaced by gestures within the choreographic design . |
| 13 | The person doing it does have scientific training , and the MD is more difficult than a PhD in that the supervisor does not take part in the examination . |
| 14 | On a glorious day like this , who could wish for anything more delightful than a walk in the park and a chance to share the secrets of Rainbow 's heart ? |
| 15 | It is arguable that this is a practical necessity given limited time and resources , but it is also arguable that a discontinuity in teaching methods and learning experiences is likely to result . |
| 16 | It 's even better money than you could earn in high season , so it is , but of course your father is n't Sir Thomas Bloody Breakspear and as rich as a pig in shit , so you need the money , while his Holiness here does n't . |
| 17 | Ruth was as agile as a dolphin in the water and she was away from him before he had a chance to stop her . |
| 18 | It 's as lazy as a cat in hot weather , with the lyric amounting to a mere two verses before the vocals just sit down to let the languid groove take over . |
| 19 | Standing beside the water tank , on top of the caravan 's portable step , Pa looks as tall as a Zulu in his red stole ( brown , for me ) with the black umbrella held over his head at full stretch by Ma who is standing behind in the mud and wet with a white towel draped over her arm and her hair flat and all dark with water . |
| 20 | ‘ I shall be as tall as a house in a minute , ’ she said . |
| 21 | For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness . |
| 22 | Always an example of devotion to duty , and as unflinching as a hero in a book . |
| 23 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 24 | ‘ Just hanging there from one of the beams , swaying as free as a leaf in the wind . |
| 25 | Conversation at table is as superfluous as a sermon in church ; all is still but for the ping of the latest microwave masterpiece . |
| 26 | His voice quiet but as winding as a blow in the solar plexus , he invited , ‘ Tell me more about your mother , Luce . ’ |
| 27 | They carted him like a scarecrow , his heels scoring the gravel , but he was as stubborn as a pig in a cart , he would never squeal without a hard prod ; Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper . |
| 28 | This room is as cold as a cabin in the frozen woods , but it is not so cold as the heart of the person to whom I gave my love , my hope , my talent . |
| 29 | And later , falling finally into sleep with her heart as cold as a snowball in her chest , she thought : at least there is Wednesday . |
| 30 | ‘ Lieutenant Webster , ’ the Duke 's voice was as cold as a sword in winter , ‘ four horses instantly to the Prince of Orange 's carriage . |