Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] [noun pl] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An account executive working on the business of a merchant bank might become so interested in financial matters that he moves over to his client 's advertising department , but as a general rule , the chances of rising to the top are greater in an agency . |
| 2 | In 1848 an experienced mines inspector and engineer could write in A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries : ‘ Explosions of gas have unfortunately become so numerous in late years that it would be impossible in the absence of specific records to enumerate them . ’ |
| 3 | Presumably because I was too young , and because life was so full in other ways that I never had time or any real reason to question it . |
| 4 | The natural sciences have proved so enormously successful in modern times that they are now commonly regarded as the supremely useful and valid intellectual discipline , and as setting the standard to which all other kinds of enquiry must conform if they are to be taken seriously as dealing with truth and reality . |
| 5 | The operation , although nearly always refused by vets in Britain , has become so common in certain countries that it even has an official name . |