Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
| 2 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 3 | If the word " real " in the sense of " actual " or " actually existent " has any discernible function at all , then it is only to indicate in a roundabout way that a certain proposition , or propositions , are actally true ; and " true " , as we have just seen , is itself eliminable as a propositional predicate . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available . |
| 5 | On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . |
| 6 | So , even though I was young and inexperienced , I felt that I could appreciate some of the feelings of men like Captain Robins , and now this strange and kindly doctor , ‘ happily ’ married to a woman rich enough to live in a big house facing Wimbledon Common while he preferred a far-off island ; each partner more in love with a way of life than with one another . |
| 7 | We might say that the corporation was liable , meaning only to summarize in a convenient way the responsibilities we ascribed to each of the shareholders . |
| 8 | Every practising barrister knows before which judges he would prefer not to appear in a political case because he believes , and his colleagues at the bar believe , that certain judges are much more likely than others to be biased against certain groups , like demonstrators or students , or certain kinds of action , like occupations of property by trade unionists or the homeless . |
| 9 | While members were asked not to behave in a representative manner , the source of their nomination ( councils , fellow doctors , nurses and trade unionists ) made it very difficult for them not to consider ramifications on their constituencies . |
| 10 | What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way . |
| 11 | They have not therefore always reached their conclusion on analytical grounds ; often these conclusions are expressive of a pragmatic desire not to intervene in a particular case . |
| 12 | Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses . |
| 13 | The essence of both offences would be the intrinsic quality of the driving and its deviation from the proper standard , not the consequences which happen to result or happen not to result in a particular case . |
| 14 | Waugh might have agreed even with the complaint about surface faults , which he was shortly to concede in a new preface and expunge by revision . |
| 15 | Secondly there are restraints upon the business in which the person receiving the business secrets may engage ( ie not to compete in a certain way for a particular time because of the risk of use or disclosure of business secrets ) . |
| 16 | When you are made aware of this you can consciously choose not to react in a stressed way and you will therefore be able to maintain a calmness even when life becomes hectic . |
| 17 | Adult dogs do take longer to settle in a new environment than puppies in any case , but you may find a dog whose history is well known . |
| 18 | ‘ No more games , ’ he said roughly , as he finally had to draw his mouth away to drag in a quick snatch of breath . |
| 19 | The first great public indication of the shift in Barth 's thinking came in 1927 , when he published the first volume of a projected Christian Dogmatics , which was intended eventually to handle in a systematic way all the main Christian doctrines . |
| 20 | She waited for a moment and then walked off to stand in a different part of the ship . |
| 21 | He was taken to hospital where doctors gave him charcoal to absorb the drug and sent him home to rest in a darkened room . |
| 22 | To support Wilfrid was also to engage in a protracted dispute which must have been a long-term embarrassment both to the Northumbrian king and the archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 23 | You should be aware of the peculiarities of the local weather before you make your mind up to live in a particular place . |
| 24 | Going back to work in a different job helped for a while , however . |
| 25 | Will it not turn out to reside in a strange mixture of particle-like and wave-like behaviour ? |
| 26 | Trying to find somewhere to live in a strange country may also be a concern . |
| 27 | Otherwise , an American or British firm suffering from high domestic interest rates ought simply to borrow in a different currency , say yen . |
| 28 | In this area , at least , the would-be functionalist is offered the kind of rich and intricate structure that may match the detailed organization of linguistic structure , and so can be claimed plausibly to stand in a causal relation to it . |
| 29 | Luke , 23 , left the bungalow in Camberley , Surrey , nine months ago to live in a rented house five miles away . |
| 30 | As Bishop Holloway pointed out in our pages yesterday , the contemporary family seems increasingly to exist in a moral vacuum , with too many children left in control of their own leisure time while their elders are either absent or indifferent to their activities . |