Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only by defining it in some such manner as suggested will you be able to recognise that it is , or is not , correct . |
| 2 | Far from awaiting us in some dazzling future , as some might hope , the golden age of individual psychoanalytic therapy is probably already behind us . |
| 3 | Drain and refresh immediately by steeping them in cold water . |
| 4 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 5 | If only Star would stop that agitated pacing , would only turn and look at her instead of questioning her in that cold , inquisitorial voice . |
| 6 | Adopting a systematic approach to the analysis of the mismatches will help considerably in identifying them in future trials and deciding upon appropriate action . |
| 7 | The same was true of James Joule 's experiment in which water was warmed quantitatively by stirring it in special apparatus : a definite quantity of mechanical force in the clockwork produced a definite quantity of heat-but the context of this was argument about the nature of heat , and Joule seemed to have proved that it was motion of particles rather than a substance . |