Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 2 | As a letter to me at Merstham dated I May 1939 indicated , Eliot was polite about the article in question : |
| 3 | He had been somewhat apprehensive about the encounter in view of the way their last meeting had ended , but fortunately she seemed to have put her irritation behind her . |
| 4 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 5 | Only if all new investment in the firm has to be financed from retained earnings is it possible for an increase in dividends to reduce net investment and thereby reduce the ability of the firm to deliver real income in the future . |
| 6 | I was asked to be discreet as the lady in question , a possible grand-daughter living on the island , was of affluent mien and might not like to be reminded of her origins . |
| 7 | This anomaly became even more striking as the increase in merchant prosperity was accompanied by deterioration in the economic position of the ruling class . |
| 8 | In considering a government summary table , it must first be recognized that the raw data were probably collected with no specific use in mind and therefore , almost inevitably , too much detail is given or the format is unsuitable for the purpose in hand . |
| 9 | The need to build an adequate base is not only relevant to the pioneer missionary situation , but also to many run-down , inner city locations — only here the problems are even greater because of a history of decline , premises which are impossible to maintain in good order and totally unsuitable for the task in hand , and demands made upon inadequate resources by the needy people in the community and overstretched social services trying to meet their needs . |
| 10 | He was eventually to undertake six campaigns in Lombardy to subdue and punish rebellious cities , grown rich through the boom in manufacturing and commerce , and increasingly independent of the old feudal authority . |
| 11 | Would she want to tell those people outside anything different about the situation in South Africa now ? |
| 12 | However elaborate ( indeed , contrived ) this theorizing may be , it is still not wholly adequate for the task in hand . |
| 13 | And they are now getting to the point where they are are popular as the folders in terms of |
| 14 | It was also , she supposed , foolish for a woman in times like these to walk about alone at night . |
| 15 | True , PR at times prevents complete clear-outs of government ; but the parties that stay in office , despite swings among voters , are usually small , as in Germany ( Italy is a special case ; its large Communist party was not acceptable as an alternative in government to the Christian Democrats ) . |
| 16 | Defending the indefensible As the crisis in Romania deepens the role of the armed forces is crucial . |
| 17 | Each man would wear an individual set of breathing apparatus and as each group got clear of the gas in Bank mine the equipment would be taken back into Knockshinnoch by rescuers and used by another group of three men . |
| 18 | Even the soldiers , when they are drunk , keep clear of the area in case they stumble and start the bell tolling . ’ |
| 19 | I think that we must wait and see what his detailed policies will be , but everything that I have seen and heard suggests that he is certainly very understanding of the situation in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | You get the feeling you 've just walked into an alternative universe where L7 , free of the Women In Rock tag , reign supreme . |
| 21 | And had his voice been able to cut through metal as it cut through the early morning air , then they would all of them have been free of the Cages in moments . |
| 22 | NUMBER ones from around the world : Bruce Springsteen , who with that manly stubble and grubby string vest has always had something of the macho Mediterranean stud about him , is currently top of the pops in Spain and Italy with Human Touch . |
| 23 | ‘ At Manchester United I have been top of the table in April and still lost it . |
| 24 | Since O. ostertagi is the most prevalent of the species in cattle it is considered in detail . |
| 25 | Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation . |
| 26 | High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode — |
| 27 | ‘ This historic loco is just the attraction and boost we need in a recession , and I 'm confident it 'll be just as popular with the public in Devon as it proved to be on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in Cornwall . ’ |
| 28 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 29 | It was from this hippodrome that the four horses now on the façade of S. Mark 's Cathedral in Venice were originally taken ; they were set high above the track in Istanbul . |
| 30 | Waters are clear under the ice in winter but turbid from organic and mineral particles when the ice has melted . |