Example sentences of "in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I might , thought Lydia , but she said : ‘ I did n't poison Betty either ’ , in a childishly defensive way which put her in a worse mood . |
| 2 | There is an abrasiveness about the Parrott approach , anything but charming in a conventionally cooing way , which is most refreshing . |
| 3 | The French soldiers behaved like the crowd in a conventionally produced play , first with exaggerated expressions of surprise , and thereafter gesticulating and muttering amongst themselves . |
| 4 | This office was expensive in a subtly ostentatious way , minimalist but designed to impress the discerning . |
| 5 | So a people with a common culture , history , language should live in a separately defined state . |
| 6 | In a notoriously tough profession he had the most deservedly celebrated career . |
| 7 | Edward IV 's own solution to this problem is unclear-the first difficulty in a notoriously controversial period . |
| 8 | It may not always mean a great deal ( though sometimes a title of this sort can be read as a genuine sign of worth ) , but it plays an essential part in reassuring people in a notoriously insecure and uncertain business . |
| 9 | Edward IV 's own solution to this problem is unclear-the first difficulty in a notoriously controversial period . |
| 10 | Julie , who taught at a local school in a notoriously rough , tough area of the city , shrugged her shoulders . |
| 11 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 12 | Thus Richard Dyer has argued of gay machismo that , by taking the traditional signs of masculinity and ‘ eroticising them in a blatantly homosexual context , much mischief is done to the security with which ‘ men' ’ are defined in society , and by which their power is secured' ( ‘ Getting Over the Rainbow ’ , 61 ) . |
| 13 | I looked round to find Karen standing in the centre of a group of businessmen who were eyeing her up and down in a blatantly sexual way . |
| 14 | Financial and legal pressures have forced councils to hand over debt recovery to private agents known as sheriffs ' officers — Scottish bailiffs — in a surprisingly clinical fashion . |
| 15 | In a surprisingly bold move , Sir Leon is threatening court action by June against governments in ten countries ( only Germany and Belgium escape ) on the grounds that their state energy monopolies distort cross-border competition in contravention of the EC 's founding Treaty of Rome . |
| 16 | Bond enabled Brixton to retrieve a 7-0 deficit in the opening set against Britannia Music on Sunday , and a total of 24 points were won on her service in a surprisingly easy 15-13 , 15-10 , 15-4 win . |
| 17 | He spoke in a surprisingly deep voice . |
| 18 | You may remember that , when Olympic diver Greg Louganis struck his head on the diving board , in a surprisingly short time he returned to the board to win a third Gold Medal . |
| 19 | He held out his arm in a surprisingly old-fashioned gesture . |
| 20 | For a wide range of input and output patterns this system responds to removal of neurons in a surprisingly robust fashion , showing little degradation of function until a large number of neurons have been removed . |
| 21 | We went first to the short-termers ' section , which consisted of several barracks in a surprisingly spacious compound . |
| 22 | As daughters earning good wages , they tended in their later years to become the sole breadwinners in households containing elderly mothers and , in a surprisingly large number of cases , handicapped or ailing sisters . |
| 23 | She now knew where Giovanna lived , in a surprisingly large house opposite the café . |
| 24 | Anyway , Julius seemed in a surprisingly reasonable mood this morning . |
| 25 | ‘ But we 've only just got here , ’ said Julius , in a surprisingly reasonable tone of voice . |
| 26 | Jenna wanted to roam off by herself and do a little window-gazing , but Marguerite took her arm in a surprisingly strong grip . |
| 27 | ‘ I have to leave , ’ he said in a surprisingly gentle voice . |
| 28 | As long ago as 1938 , Edith Weigert-Vowinkel , in a surprisingly little-known , but remarkable article , recognized that what she terms ‘ early planter culture ’ was characterized by mother-goddess worship and by manic-depressive tendencies . |
| 29 | In general they did not seek harsh retributory sentences once order had been restored and in a surprisingly large number of cases actually went some way towards meeting the wishes of the crowd by doing something to encourage a lowering of prices and initiating or participating in relief measures . |
| 30 | It is a lightweight steel structure on piled foundations and , elevationally , is treated differently to the existing block , in a consciously modern style . |