Example sentences of "in [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
2 | So when I was confronted by the station warrant officer ( SWO ) in my very best turnout I was somewhat aggrieved at his tirade about my flouting regulations when a strange apparition approached , an airman acting as the station Postman . |
3 | In their notoriously fashion-based hometown they 've stuck out from the crowd by not following rules and soldering disparate musics together when everyone else was trying to fit into narrow categories . |
4 | In their most recent study they compared these distant from the tumour with those from histologically normal samples taken within a 1 cm radius of the tumour and founr that regardless of the colonic segment being considered , the proliferative activity in tumour adjacent tissues was generally dampened with respect to that of the more distant specimens . |
5 | In their more usual homes they like to live in huge colonies around cracks in the ocean floor where hot mineral rich larva or oil and gas leak from the sea bed . |
6 | Although politicians tended to steer clear of acknowledging this aspect of policy too publicly , in their more candid moments they admitted that this cure for inflation went hand in glove with a rise in unemployment above NAIRU . |
7 | Indeed , in their frequently incestuous marriages , and in their usually selfish domination they seriously compromised the fundamental prohibitions against incest and parricide on which all human societies depend . |
8 | When she turned up at Buckingham University in her newly ennobled capacity she showed nothing had changed . |
9 | Even in its most calm state it still resonates to brain waves that vibrate at eight cycles per second . |
10 | It needed to be bigger , for it was widely used as a plough ox on the very heavy , stiff clays of the Sussex Weald and in its more distant past it played a valuable role in the Sussex iron industry by hauling hefty loads of timber and metal . |
11 | In its more specific uses it has much to contribute by way of correction to generalizing uses of culture' . |
12 | But in its more common uses it refers to an indirectness of relation between experience and its composition . |
13 | He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack . |
14 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
15 | If he were to look at his life rationally — as in his most philosophical moments he liked to think he did — then there was no questioning the profile . |
16 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
17 | But then , in his very next speech he insists on shaking the hands of all of the conspirators . |
18 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
19 | In your otherwise excellent article you referred to Bob 's evasion of ‘ the sad dank dustbin of memory ’ . |