Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John said : ‘ By reducing our holding in this block we are spreading our risk and freeing up funds for development elsewhere . |
| 2 | In order to assess the progressive development of international law in this direction it is important to determine what claims may be made by or against third parties , either as a particular third party or as a member of the international community , and the possible outcome of those claims . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob . |
| 4 | For anyone else trying to find work in middle age it 's worth remembering that the real Churchill did n't get his big break until he was 66 . |
| 5 | For his work in this field he was awarded the Order of the Hop medal at the International Hop Growers Congress in Tasmania in 1986 . |
| 6 | The publicity spoke of there being no lesson in the film : Bogart was quoted as saying that ‘ if there is one thing that has no place in theatrical show it is an attempt to preach ’ , but no member of the audience could miss the point of this film . |
| 7 | As a reference point in popular protest it 's pretty powerful , Vietnam . |
| 8 | From our site in Old College it is only a few minutes walk to Parliament House , where the highest criminal and civil courts in Scotland sit , and to the local Sheriff and district court . |
| 9 | When the package is released as a product in this way it is known as an Issue of the software . |
| 10 | To understand its meaning in this case it is necessary to consider Table 4.5 . |
| 11 | ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’ |
| 12 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 13 | On one occasion in this period he was unusually self-revealing in a conversation with Virginia Woolf ; she sensed an agonized and lonely man , filled with " self-torture , doubt , conceit , desire for warmth and intimacy " . |
| 14 | I 'm not sure you could take a tabloid in this direction I 'm about to propose that would also appeal to some popular customers , but it 's like , last night everyone was reminiscing about Type ninety and the high points and one of the things that came out in conversation was that there was enormous amount of sex going on which I suppose there is at all conferences , you know , but this one seemed to be , you know , the randiest conference in recent memory . |
| 15 | By the tear by the time each of them came to give evidence in this case it was clear that each had brought forward in their own minds the time when daytime carers would be needed . |
| 16 | In the Midlands it is the tree one sees most often : and for a brief spell in early sum-mer it is the most beautiful of all the Midland trees , with its continuous miles of white may blossom glimmering as far as the eye can see . |
| 17 | Using the tax function introduced above , the multiplier for a change in government expenditure becomes and for a change in autonomous taxation it is |
| 18 | He thought I was cross , so he got flustered and started telling me how much he loved me , and that was n't what I wanted to hear either , though of course in one way it 's what I always want to hear . |
| 19 | It is also the complement to the extraordinary cult of the Great Patriotic War , whose presence in Soviet society it is impossible to escape : in the Ural Military District , where no German soldier set foot , there are 675 monuments to war dead . |
| 20 | So there is some pattern in this spelling it 's awkward it 's not as trouble is English is mixed up with bits of all sort of other languages over hundreds of thousands of years . |
| 21 | It is the outcome of a series of contracts between the founding shareholders : in so far as the state has a role in corporate creation it is not materially different from its role in enforcing contracts in general . |
| 22 | His most recent biographer has observed that ‘ because Aymer de Valence held the English earldom of Pembroke and spent his entire career in English service it is easy to forget that in origin he was almost entirely French and that he retained very close links with France throughout his life ’ . |
| 23 | If there is any victory in this film it 's not mine . |
| 24 | To consider whether Freud overestimated the importance of sex in human psychology it is necessary to consider exactly what Freud said about sex in human psychology . |
| 25 | Fifteen years or so after these events of my early life in secondary school it is hard to remember now how important all these things were . |
| 26 | By ensuring rejection in this way he was also ensuring that he would not be enslaved by anyone else 's methods of work . |
| 27 | If Gorbachev enjoyed success in any sphere it was perhaps above all foreign policy . |
| 28 | In such an organization in Swedish society it is not possible to run an idea-handling system successfully . |
| 29 | In a similar way in suprasegmental phonology it is claimed that utterances may be divided up into tone-units , and that one can identify on phonetic or phonological grounds the places where one tone-unit ends and another tone-unit begins . |
| 30 | Later , however , I did tell him that the meeting had been a disaster and that if he thought it had mollified the press in any way he was greatly mistaken . |