Example sentences of "[conj] in [det] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it must be said , in traditional terms , that , together with his human nature , he also had , in one person , a divine nature ; or in some other way he must be held to be unique . |
| 2 | Although in this last case we should note that it is much harder to talk of the sentence being ‘ wrong ’ ; there are circumstances when people validly violate semantic norms , as we shall see . |
| 3 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |
| 4 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 5 | Grant that in this new year we may know your presence , see your love at work , and live in the light of the vent which gives us joy forever — the coming of your Son , Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 6 | It would appear that in this moral stance they were backed by public opinion . |
| 7 | But the most important thing about Lord Robertson was that in this particular case he was even more prejudiced than Lord Grant , although in the light of all that had recently occurred , with far less excuse . |
| 8 | Uniting boredom , provinciality , the Gadarene stampede , and paper people , Peter Verkhovensky says : ‘ I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored , so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it . ’ |
| 9 | Roman 's interruption held a note of such ferocious anger that in any other circumstances it would have stopped her in her tracks . |
| 10 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |
| 11 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 12 | Apollinaire concludes : ‘ I believe that in these few words I have conveyed the true meaning of Cubism : a new and lofty artistic movement , but not a rigid school inhibiting talent . ’ |
| 13 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |
| 14 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
| 15 | Lewis , who was no fool , soon saw that in some incomprehensible way he had put his uncle 's back up . |
| 16 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 17 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 18 | Well Monsieur Mitterrand has already made it clear that in some important respects I think particularly of defence , erm that , that 's he not going to rush into any changes . |
| 19 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 20 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 21 | They were past Jedburgh by noon , and Ramsay , who now was in country he knew fairly intimately , pointed out that in another ten miles they would be out of Teviotdale , with Teviot joining Tweed at Roxburgh and Kelso . |
| 22 | I would rather stay at a good bed & breakfast than in several five-star hotels I could name . |
| 23 | I encountered a lot of very drunk people in Prague , more than in any other city I have visited except perhaps Belfast . |
| 24 | ‘ I think there are more twisted , envious and irresponsible people in the London newspaper world than in any comparable area I can think of . |
| 25 | But then , as if in that same instant he had solved the puzzle , he spoke . |
| 26 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 27 | Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it . |
| 28 | And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life . |
| 29 | Moreover , what we can know , such as our duties and obligations to each other and to God , is just what we need to know ; and in many other cases we have beliefs sufficiently well-founded for the purposes of our everyday life . |
| 30 | At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves . |