Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVERTON keeper Neville Southall predicted his side would end the season challenging for Europe , even after their seventh defeat in nine games plunged them into relegation trouble . |
| 2 | A disastrous run of one defeat in nine games meant we ended the season a pathetic third . |
| 3 | Let's just say that the serious lack of accountability in some schemes leaves them wide open to be abused for private and illegal gain . |
| 4 | She has never advocated violence , and yet there has been a lettered campaign in some quarters to discredit her . |
| 5 | Five days later the snow melted , and on the morning of 11 February the second massive flood in seven months overtook them ; it was all very well for the town directory to speak in glowing terms of the River Frome teeming with trout , eels , and all manner of fine fish — but to the inhabitants of Pig Street that wretched river too often spelt disaster and despoliation . |
| 6 | Sometimes the rancour in these stories frightened her . |
| 7 | Yet reticence in sexual matters makes it less than probable that these will be the first mentioned . |
| 8 | As the brochure on the procedure in these cases explains it is not always possible to conclude a claim as quickly as you or I would like . |
| 9 | Naturally I talked over every aspect of it with Elizabeth and the family ; and in the end I concluded that if- and only if-convincing evidence was brought to me that a substantial majority in both Houses wished me to take on the job I would do so . |
| 10 | This is the case of the Scandinavian countries — I am thinking of Finland and Iceland in particular — though the prevailing liberal ideology in those parts makes it embarrassing to admit to this form of intolerance . |
| 11 | Bagehot said that Ash 's presentation of Mesmer 's belief in spiritual influences showed he was less rigorously confined by positive science than he now claimed to be . |
| 12 | It is keen to exploit the so-called personal communications market — supposedly destined to grow from one million world users in 1994 to 100 million by 2000 — and having a finger in both pies means it wins either way . |
| 13 | The whole program is based on a system of menus and sub menus , so whatever you select from the main menu will in most cases lead you to a sub menu , which may in turn lead you to another sub menu and so on , until the necessary choices have been made . |
| 14 | He was the second man in two days to ask me that . |
| 15 | Furthermore , this identification of modernity with life in industrial societies contrasts them with all preindustrial societies ( both in a historical sense and in those countries of the Third World that have barely been touched by industrialism ) . |
| 16 | During the six years that the Century Guild existed its output was modest , though its participation in public exhibitions gave it a considerable influence . |
| 17 | What is then vividly revealed is that British industry 's inability to match the pace of competition in foreign markets forced it to rely proportionately more on the home market but , in turn , it failed to hold its position . |
| 18 | The element of distortion and the handling of the space in these paintings relates them intimately to Cubism , although most Cubist painting is close , too , in feeling to the more constructive and austere portraits , still lifes and landscapes . |
| 19 | The trend in successive cohorts suggests it is . |
| 20 | Why not knit a cottage garden in bright colours to remind you of summer all year around ? |
| 21 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 22 | Its significance in 1422 lay in the way it questioned whether birth was a sufficient warrant for high military office , or whether the responsibilities of leadership in war time should only be accorded ( and it was the king who accorded them ) to those whose experience and reputation in military affairs merited them . |
| 23 | If there was any post-coital tristesse about Mighty Mo Magill his lifetime in covert operations hit it well . |
| 24 | " Accommodation theory " demonstrates that speakers adjust their speech in various ways to make it more similar or dissimilar to that of their interlocutors ( see Giles and Smith 1979 for a review . ) |
| 25 | The resurgence of interest in cognitive processes makes it impossible to hold such a simple view any longer and nowadays most psychologists recognize that there are psychological processes , like verbal communication and the symbolic representation of future events , that can only reliably be demonstrated in other people . |
| 26 | Timothy 's interest in decorative schemes drew him to look carefully for evidence of the old painted ornament , and he found plenty . |