Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 It is false that only a person in authority is an authority .
2 No one knows where HIV started , but we do know that it is spreading fast and nearly every country in the world has people with HIV or AIDS .
3 In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins .
4 The approach to teaching and learning on this course is developmental and therefore the students in a particular year group work with the same team of tutors who cover all aspects of learning and of educational provision for young children — including the development of language and literacy .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’
7 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 .
8 She died childless when still a minor in 1651 and he never remarried .
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