Example sentences of "[adj] in the [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we 've made perfectly clear in the last discussion we 've just had , no final decisions on the implementation of any variations will be taken until Council meets on the twenty fifth of February . |
| 2 | If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall . |
| 3 | At present I am only interested in the extra amount it costs to take the car out on the road . |
| 4 | More interested in the real issues you see ? |
| 5 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 6 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 7 | But it started no religious fashions in post-war British fiction , which is rootedly secular , its heroes as unbelieving of a world beyond the grave as they are insecure in the only world they know . |
| 8 | This situation is a reminder that no two patients are the same , and that the learner must be adaptable in the nursing care she gives . |
| 9 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 10 | Although some material with particular mathematical structure will be mentioned , it is sometimes restrictive in the overall experience it provides for very young children by the very nature of its structure . |
| 11 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 12 | Nor does it protect that ideal in the further ways I described , by identifying as special those cases in which there is no explicit past decision to follow . |
| 13 | The little girl too was much improved , no longer neglected , looking very pretty in the new shoes he had bought for her . |
| 14 | She had walked fast , comfortable in the old corset she had firmly told Lyddy was quite sufficient for visiting the Rectory children , and as she passed the church , the clock struck three sonorously into the still afternoon air . |
| 15 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 16 | While it is acknowledged by pluralists that groups and associations will not all be equal in the political weight they can bring to bear on governments , no group will dominate all the time , and most groups will be able to have their way some of the time . |
| 17 | We are married in the only way we can be married , believe me . |
| 18 | Peter Tickner , the college 's director of publicity and marketing , said : ‘ We are always seeking ways of getting students involved in the real world they hope to join when they leave college ’ . |
| 19 | Although they are not involved in the formal festivities it is known the Duke of York and the Queen wanted them nearby so they could enjoy seeing the children . |
| 20 | I had hope to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time we 've had . |
| 21 | This nation of quicksilver individualists has to be stoically unwavering in the economic self-discipline it has belatedly imposed on itself . |
| 22 | Her relief was evident in the small cry she made . |
| 23 | A short distance away were the Santerres : Sir John shouting orders and beside him his wife , riding side-saddle , her desire to leave apparent in the agitated remarks she made to her husband . |
| 24 | He did n't actually say the words , but they were implicit in the final look he gave her before disappearing down the companionway . |
| 25 | Biographical time , the most complex of the three , the most various in the chronotopal forms it takes , and the most influential on later developments of the novel , places character at its centre , organizing space and time around it , variously tracing time as a spiritual or intellectual journey through a symbolic landscape , unfolding character through a series of acts and deeds , or tracing character through the different components of domestic and public life — family life , conduct in war , memorable sayings . |
| 26 | He sometimes wondered if he would be more successful in the embarrassing errands he was called upon to undertake if he had an Irish accent , or some quaint turn of speech . |
| 27 | For a scheme to be successful in the long term it is vital that there should be an organizational structure to support it . |
| 28 | Against Celtic in the Scottish Cup we fought like Trojans . |
| 29 | No doubt this ability to mask his thoughts and feelings was vital in the cut-throat world he inhabited , but she found it unnerving . |
| 30 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |