Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman 's dress sense is much less important to more educated men than to those with basic education , while married men are less interested in a woman 's mouth than any other group . |
| 2 | Ezra Pound 's long love affair with England , and his angry and wounded turning against her in 1917 or 1918 , can not of course bulk so large in an American 's sense of him as in an Englishman 's . |
| 3 | During their trial separation , Robyn became deeply involved in a Women 's Group at Cambridge who met regularly but informally to discuss women 's writing and feminist literary theory . |
| 4 | Few people will be able to complete the route in one go , but luckily it is accessible by public transport at a number of staging points , so it can be split into chunks more manageable in a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 5 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 6 | A man who is essentially passive in an activist 's role , a man willing to let the tides of history dictate his actions . ’ |