Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the confused jottings in the larger notebook he found this : |
| 2 | While small influences in the short term may add up to large influences in the longer term we must conclude that , within an election campaign , television could influence but not dictate the public agenda . |
| 3 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
| 4 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 5 | We are so accustomed to focussing on language , that there is a strong tendency in teaching with video to focus on the words in the same way we do with audio . |
| 6 | Make amends in the only way we could . |
| 7 | I stride over and take her by the shoulders in the same way I held Darius . |
| 8 | To express four proteins in the quadruple vector we selected the genes that were either expressed at a high level in insect cells ( eg , VP2 , VP6 , VP7 , NS1 ) by single expression vector systems or can be assembled into a morphological structure in a native configuration ( 10 , 16 , 17 , 19 ) . |
| 9 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 10 | As you work on the pronunciation of the vowels and consonants in the new language you will of course need to concentrate on those that are unfamiliar and difficult . |
| 11 | ‘ Even if I just get one of my feet in the wrong position it really messes me about and it 's easy for that foot to just flick off the peg . ’ |
| 12 | It was a musical farce with a classic swap of identity plot with people confessing to their partners their infidelities in the mistaken belief they were confiding in someone else , a daft Midsummer Musical comedy with Gerry Mulgrew as a manic , fast-talking Marlowesque ( Philip Marlowesque I mean ) magical dog who had Puckish powers to cause confusion in his neck of the woods — a hideous fictional Glasgow ghetto housing scheme called Low Cassil . |
| 13 | To many observers in the outside world it would appear that the religion is in little danger . |
| 14 | Enid 's fingers made pleats in the lilac skirt she was wearing . |
| 15 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 16 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 17 | After three days in the Grand Canyon I was only just starting to appreciate the size and scale of the place . |
| 18 | By manipulating the number of days in the intercalary month they could prolong a term of office or hasten an election , with the result that by the time of Julius Caesar the civil year was about three months out of phase with the astronomical year , so that the winter months fell in the autumn and the spring equinox came in the winter . |
| 19 | From small beginnings in the eighteenth century it prospered in the depression after 1814 . |
| 20 | The word translated ‘ God ’ is plural in form , and though in the vast majority of its occurrences in the Old Testament it means ‘ God ’ , it can equally well mean ‘ gods ’ , or ‘ divine or supernatural beings ’ , including river demons and evil spirits of the night . |
| 21 | However , if you look at things in the right way it is all quite logical and straightforward . |
| 22 | They simply deny things in the real world they do n't want to recognize . |
| 23 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 24 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Barker had intended to sell the goods in the antique shop he runs with his wife . |
| 26 | If you want to create a C-shape but all your pressed material curves in the opposite direction you may have to let the flowers and foliage dictate the design . |
| 27 | I shall then describe conditions in the central gaol I visited , ending with some comments about the possibilities and prospects for change . |
| 28 | He 's cost us , cost us a million pounds in the first year he was a councillor . |
| 29 | The transistor bridge drive introduced in Section 2.3 uses more semiconductor devices per phase than the unipolar drive , but by placing additional windings in the hybrid motor it is possible to simplify the drive ; this technique is described in Section 2.4 . |
| 30 | Bella married a butcher who displayed her photographs in his shop while she charmed the customers in the same way she had charmed the stars . |