Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beamed lounge with its log fire is elegantly furnished in a country-house style . |
| 2 | Dead trees turn out to be commonplace — hundreds of them standing knee deep in the wide , slow meanders of the Murray River or more loosely scattered in a macabre parkland where what passes for good grazing has been toasted a mauvy brown by the long summer sun . |
| 3 | To quote the same news report : ‘ Supporters who had been fierce rivals seconds before when Don Gillies fired in an 80th minute equaliser for Bristol , suddenly joined in a combined celebration . |
| 4 | On the other hand , a child who has difficulty in establishing social contact with others may find the unpredictability of an ordinary classroom overpowering and be better placed in a special class or unit . |
| 5 | In his study of the development of literate practices in medieval England , From Memory to Written Record 1066–1307 ( 1979 ) , Michael Clanchy has suggested that the problem is better formulated in a different way . |
| 6 | But then what else could she have expected as she was only clad in a thin night-gown . |
| 7 | On the outside , the LSE II has all-wood decoration : contrasting rings of rosewood , walnut , maple and mahogany all gathered in a single band for the soundhole rosette and purflings of walnut , maple and rosewood running around the top edge . |
| 8 | Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county . |
| 9 | For the rest of the decade the working classes were only depicted in a small number of undistinguished films which celebrated or exploited the skills of particular groups of workers . |
| 10 | I 've got a plain TeX version of Leeds ' league fixtures for this season all nicely done in a ruled table . |
| 11 | It was as if two distant times had suddenly met in a single second and two different women in a single gesture . |
| 12 | The familiar is suddenly seen in a new way ; the student 's core discipline is illuminated under a different cognitive perspective . |
| 13 | It 's all told in a bouncy rhyme , with outrageously funny pictures . |
| 14 | If the ‘ Hooligans ’ were regarded as an un-English phenomenon , they were also understood as an entirely unprecedented development and respectable England felt itself to have been suddenly engulfed in a new rush of crime . |
| 15 | We will be giving away FIVE of our legendary FlyPast Goodie-Bags containing new books , a video , FlyPast stocking-fillers , all wrapped in a crowning glory — the memorably FlyPast shopping bag ( all-in-all retail value at least £50 each Goodie-Bag ) . |
| 16 | Vorsprung durch Technik , which roughly translates to ‘ created using the best technology ’ , meant huge banks of videos , a colossal stage and a stunning light show , all wrapped in a huge sound system . |
| 17 | I am like the child spell-bound by the accumulated powers of the night , — darkness , the sound of silence , loneliness , infinite possibility , all mingled in a vast horror . |
| 18 | If the money so raised in a modern equivalent of this lottery is to be wasted on similar luxuries , it would be better if we saved our money or spent it on necessities . |
| 19 | She had been inadvertently locked in a disused cellar and the only sound she had heard while cringing in a darkened corner was the incessant scratching as the rats scurried across the concrete floor around her . |
| 20 | Hence they have only contributed in a limited way to post-war housing , but they have been a major feature of a commitment to planned decentralization , even though , as Aldridge ( 1979 ) concludes , by the end it was a programme without a policy . |
| 21 | However , power is not merely exercised in a simple manner by the state or by one class over others via punishment and other mechanisms , but is a ubiquitous and many-sided phenomenon ; there exists a ‘ multi-plicity of power relations ’ in society which are the constant focus of negotiation and struggle . |
| 22 | And it was only entered in a flat race ! |
| 23 | This short manuscript , which was only rediscovered in a private library at the turn of the century , spells out the sort of behaviour that was expected of a young Mughal gentleman in Delhi about 1650 . |
| 24 | The business that is not being purposefully led in a clear direction which is understood by its people is not going to survive , and all of history shows that that is the case . |
| 25 | If conventionalism were so single-mindedly practised in a particular jurisdiction and so often announced and confirmed by public institutions that people were thereby entitled to rely on that style of adjudication , of course it would be unfair for some judge suddenly to abandon it . |
| 26 | I 'm waiting at Charing Cross station and I 'm wrongly dressed in a black hat and coat , whereas I should have come in jeans and a heavy Shetland jumper . |
| 27 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 28 | He looked up fast , extremely pleased in a philanthropic way but still hanging back for himself . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , Hertz is justly famous for the confirmation he achieved , whereas my frequent confirmations are rightly ignored in a scientific context . |
| 30 | What is common to all , however , is that an emphasis is placed on peaceful interaction among the members of the society , and this emphasis is cosmologically constructed and morally embedded in a cosmological universe of meaning . |