Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 2 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 3 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 4 | While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line . |
| 5 | For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets . |
| 6 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 7 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |
| 8 | We often feel like one of the black sheep of the independent sector — accepting a licence fee puts you in the not-serious programme makers ' league . |
| 9 | MIPS claims all RISC chips offer roughly the same performance and that its R4400 96 SPECint89 score puts it in the same league as HP , distinguished by its significantly lower price and wide availability . |
| 10 | The war boar is a dangerous beast whose charge puts him in the same category as a fully armoured , lance-armed knight . |
| 11 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 12 | Its position beside Musgrave Street police station puts it in the same difficult position as many old buildings beside security installations . |
| 13 | Frodo uses it in the Old Forest : |
| 14 | Parliament changes nothing in the physical world by passing laws . |
| 15 | This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all . |
| 16 | Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind . |
| 17 | Shedding their skin puts them in the same position as Jane Austen 's heroes , prematurely aged by the treacherous sun of the West Indies . ’ |
| 18 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 19 | ‘ And I am sure that a mighty host awaits him in the Next World . ’ |
| 20 | Of course , the fact that you have written a computer program that will do what an animal does is no proof that the animal does it in the same way . |
| 21 | Until recently , such wavelengths have been ignored because neutral hydrogen absorbs it in the same way fog absorbs visible light . |
| 22 | I seem to remember several cases in which the court considered to what extent the solicitor involves himself in the financial arrangements for a conveyancing transaction . |