Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beamed lounge with its log fire is elegantly furnished in a country-house style . |
| 2 | Many could successfully survive in a harsh environment , and their bodies enabled them to evolve into larger and more diverse creatures . |
| 3 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 4 | Dead trees turn out to be commonplace — hundreds of them standing knee deep in the wide , slow meanders of the Murray River or more loosely scattered in a macabre parkland where what passes for good grazing has been toasted a mauvy brown by the long summer sun . |
| 5 | To quote the same news report : ‘ Supporters who had been fierce rivals seconds before when Don Gillies fired in an 80th minute equaliser for Bristol , suddenly joined in a combined celebration . |
| 6 | On the other hand , a child who has difficulty in establishing social contact with others may find the unpredictability of an ordinary classroom overpowering and be better placed in a special class or unit . |
| 7 | In his study of the development of literate practices in medieval England , From Memory to Written Record 1066–1307 ( 1979 ) , Michael Clanchy has suggested that the problem is better formulated in a different way . |
| 8 | But then what else could she have expected as she was only clad in a thin night-gown . |
| 9 | Another way to get the flavour of Japan , but requiring a little more courage than merely eating in a local café , is to stay in a Japanese-style hotel . |
| 10 | On the outside , the LSE II has all-wood decoration : contrasting rings of rosewood , walnut , maple and mahogany all gathered in a single band for the soundhole rosette and purflings of walnut , maple and rosewood running around the top edge . |
| 11 | The Piaroa view the arrogant and dominating character , which the Shavante would highly esteem in a mature male , as odious . |
| 12 | The other , instinctively realizing the danger , swiftly retreats in a reflex movement of social and theological withdrawal , but all that it does from then on is marked by a deepening social and intellectual insecurity . |
| 13 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 14 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 15 | Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county . |
| 16 | For the rest of the decade the working classes were only depicted in a small number of undistinguished films which celebrated or exploited the skills of particular groups of workers . |
| 17 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 18 | If the word " real " in the sense of " actual " or " actually existent " has any discernible function at all , then it is only to indicate in a roundabout way that a certain proposition , or propositions , are actally true ; and " true " , as we have just seen , is itself eliminable as a propositional predicate . |
| 19 | Without warning the grass suddenly exploded in a great shower and a livid white head emerged . |
| 20 | ( This exchange system enabled some universities to establish very large collections of theses , but it was very costly , since it depended on the production of multiple copies of theses , and the practise was only operating in a small number of American universities by the start of Worl War II . |
| 21 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 22 | The Educational Institute of Scotland has organised industrial action because it argues that the new school is still basically Bellarmine in a different building . |
| 23 | Obviously put in a little camera in the |
| 24 | Any such attempt will necessarily result in a segmented Community with some countries further progressing towards integration while others become satellite economies . |
| 25 | I 've got a plain TeX version of Leeds ' league fixtures for this season all nicely done in a ruled table . |
| 26 | This environment will apparently appear in a future version of SCO Unix , however , it was unclear at press time whether that software would be SVR4 . |
| 27 | Argument will only grow in a large organization if it is actually encouraged , and if the example is given from the top with courteous listening and praise for differences of view . |
| 28 | It was as if two distant times had suddenly met in a single second and two different women in a single gesture . |
| 29 | The familiar is suddenly seen in a new way ; the student 's core discipline is illuminated under a different cognitive perspective . |
| 30 | Of course , the truth about how he has done it will probably only emerge in a ghosted autobiography that will cost some newspaper a king 's ransom . |