Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still I suppose you could say he suffered for his religion in the same way I suffer for my art . |
| 2 | Discussing the proposals of Holland and Benn designed to rectify the short-fall in investment in the British economy they make this point : |
| 3 | Also deduction of the Fund 's initial charge ( where applicable ) means that if an investor withdraws from his investment in the short term he may not get back the amount he originally invested . |
| 4 | I mean Ro R Roger advised the client 's agent in the normal way I mean |
| 5 | The solution for an elastic cylinder in place strain is need to be found from the boundary conditions , Now if is the circumferential tension in the thin band it is equal to b times the interfacial pressure . |
| 6 | They all hoped Zebedee would leave his calling card in the painted square they had picked for £1 . |
| 7 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 8 | THE lovers parked the car in the darkest place they could find , on the edge of a bank . |
| 9 | As class sizes will be limited , the earlier you get your entry in the more chance you have of being included in your preferred classes . |
| 10 | I was talking with a erm a well she 's not a colleague actually she 's another piano teacher , only about two days ago while walking dogs , she 's walking hers , I 'm walking mine , and , Oh I see from your recent advert in the local paper you 're accepting piano pupils . |
| 11 | Though he travels a good deal in his job as an engineering manager , he could now enjoy the prospect of climbing , walking and fishing in the beautiful scenery he loves . |
| 12 | Er , see when , when s , when I say worship it er , it sounds like er , er playing some rituals or something like this , but there 's no ritual in the Sikh faith it 's just remembering God . |
| 13 | In the case of Primo Nebiolo , the mere fact of being in Gateshead suddenly seemed to give the president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation a fluency in the English language he had not erstwhile possessed . |
| 14 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 15 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 16 | They barely made a dent in the vast area they were supposed to cover . |
| 17 | By the faint , clouded moonlight from the small window in the adjoining washroom he was able to orient himself ; he struggled upright , leaning awkwardly against the wall , hampered by his bound hands and lacerated feet , and began to walk . |
| 18 | You would not , for instance , had he had his way , have been able to go on running the provender committee in the disgraceful way you did . ’ |
| 19 | In the first column in the following table they compute the average unemployment rates over four sample periods . |
| 20 | In half a column in the Daily Telegraph he examined the plot and decorated his review with a reference to a Victorian poem but , although he called Mr Begley 's first novel ‘ extraordinary ’ ( which could mean almost anything : one hopes that both the best and the worst books in the world are ‘ extraordinary ’ ) , he made no comment on the worth of the later one . |
| 21 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 22 | As a poor boy in the Soviet Union he had , he pointed out , become chairman of the Supreme Council of Soviets , a job whose responsibilities compared even with those of running 20th Century Fox . |
| 23 | Look at the bare facts we 've not beaten the scum in the three season we 've been back up and god knows we 've had enough chances in that time . |
| 24 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 25 | It occurred to Thomas as he listened to her that Sara had not changed a whit in the whole time they had been married . |
| 26 | But mostly he was at home in the old church you know . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 28 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 29 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 30 | Learning from our meandering in the previous section we shall start straight away with Gauss 's law . |