Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is false that only a person in authority is an authority . |
| 2 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 3 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 4 | This story , of Mary , in love with a lowly clerk ( tall , dark , handsome and actually an aristocrat in disguise ) owed a great deal to the sagas of class confusion and frustrated passions to be found in contemporary fiction magazines and the ‘ penny dreadful novelette ’ , both in its packaging and plot . |
| 5 | She died childless when still a minor in 1651 and he never remarried . |