Example sentences of "in a [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a jungle whose oppressive steam-heat made sweat run inside her steel breastplate , she cut the throats of three befeathered priests . |
| 2 | As the clues trickle out and the town 's secrets are slowly unmasked , Lynch luxuriates over the images onscreen , focusing on tiny details a motorcycle reflected in the pupil of Laura 's eye in an old home video ; a cryptic letter ‘ R ’ dug out from underneath her fingernail in a morgue whose fluorescent lights flicker nervously that makes the show such a visual delight . |
| 3 | Novices often like to hold the rope above them as a handrail , but in a slip their instinctive reaction will be to pull on the rope , giving a dangerous jerk on the leader . |
| 4 | His cast is wonderful , avoiding fussiness in a work whose circus-like twists and turns can so easily become a brawl . |
| 5 | Too clever by half , they could encapsulate in a song-title what most bands could never express in a career — ‘ We Live As We Dream , Alone ’ , ‘ Capital ( It Fails Us Now ) ’ and ‘ To Hell With Poverty ’ with its neat rejoinder ‘ … let's get drunk on cheap wine ’ . |
| 6 | Too clever by half , they could encapsulate in a song-title what most bands could never express in a career — ‘ We Live As We Dream , Alone ’ , ‘ Capital ( It Fails Us Now ) ’ and ‘ To Hell With Poverty ’ with its neat rejoinder ‘ … let's get drunk on cheap wine ’ . |
| 7 | Fort Marcy , who had won the race in 1967 , was third favourite in a field whose eight runners bore witness to a truly international contest . |
| 8 | A world set in a universe whose furthest reaches could be explored by any rambler with a pair of nailed boots , a packet of sandwiches , and a one-inch map . |
| 9 | The report comes out strongly against the imposition of trade sanctions against countries on environmental grounds : in an implicit reference to the recent US action against tuna imports from Mexico [ see ED 55 ] , the report says , " a country may not restrict imports of a product solely because it originates in a country whose environmental policies are different . " |
| 10 | The fire at the Buddha Monthon toy factory on May 10th which killed more than 200 workers was the worst factory fire in history , and will provoke gloomy introspection in a country whose unofficial slogan is mai pen rai — never mind . |
| 11 | There was also a struggle for premises : we were meeting in a home which limited growth and every door we tried to open remained tightly shut . |
| 12 | Figure 7.2 shows a cube of edge length l with its edges parallel to the axes Ox , Oy , and Oz in a medium whose stress-energy tensor is . |
| 13 | As an American plant , ‘ prickly pear ’ also connects with his own childhood in a society whose religious values seemed atrophied . |
| 14 | The decision was , I do not doubt , a thoroughly beneficial decision which has given a sensible ambit to powers which Parliament had conferred in a way which good sense would suggest had left them far too restricted . |
| 15 | By the last decades of the seventeenth century a much heavier emphasis than ever before was being placed on the need for honesty , for the diplomat to behave in a way which inspired confidence in those with whom he dealt . |
| 16 | Writing of what he knew at first-hand , Marryat could be allusive in a way which later writers could not emulate . |
| 17 | It was still necessary for planning to pay sensible attention to the need to provide essential public services economically , but modern industrial undertakings had to be prepared to conduct their businesses in a way which minimised ugliness and to accept any reasonable cost involved in making their buildings , plant and operations acceptable to public opinion . |
| 18 | The one reduces theology to the Christian 's ‘ way of looking at things ’ , makes evangelism just an open-ended dialogue and articulates faith in a way which previous generations would have seen as a denial of the faith , in need of an answer itself . |
| 19 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 20 | Therefore a man like Ramsey brought the argument about Christian unity up against the fundamental question of Catholicity versus Protestantism in a way which few others could . |
| 21 | Kuijken ( ) , as ever , puts musical values first , and in this he reminds me very much of a firstgeneration ‘ authentic ’ recording made by the Collegium Aureum under Schmidt-Garden ( not yet available on CD ) , which similarly involved one textually in a way which few versions can match , even if one is left with the impression that many of the musical solutions may have registered almost as comfortably on modern instruments . |
| 22 | American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age . |
| 23 | Radchenko is clearly the dangerman in a team whose away exploits have earned them previous European qualification . |
| 24 | Mark Robins bamboozled two defenders to whip in a cross which make-shift striker Rob Newman headed past England keeper Chris Woods . |
| 25 | Deaf people are in a situation which many minority cultures share . |
| 26 | Winning in a manner which combined style and sportsmanship — and presented the game to a youthful audience in a positive light — was a more onerous task . |
| 27 | These body-builder types , particularly , can preen and pout in a manner which some ladies might find rather suggestive , only to have their hopes dashed when the guy starts telling anecdotes about his boyfriend 's expertise in the sack . |
| 28 | Riveted and astonished , I can report that in a palace whose previous tenants have included Ivan the Terrible and Stalin , parliamentary democracy is flourishing . |
| 29 | The clinical ecology movement , founded in the 1950s by the American allergist , Dr Theron Randolf , is based on the belief that certain people are unusually susceptible to the adverse effects of their environment ; this results in a disease which clinical ecologists call ‘ environmental illness ’ but which has several names , including ‘ total allergy syndrome , ’ ‘ twentieth century disease , ’ and ‘ food and chemical sensitivities . ’ |
| 30 | He was also charged with a second offence of running a business in a condition which exposed food to the risk of contamination . |