Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In low level solo passes the B–25s returned and with accompanying pyrotechnics relived the attack on Tokyo . |
| 2 | DOCTORS battled in vain last night to save a British soldier shot when he walked into an IRA ambush as he patrolled North Belfast . |
| 3 | The Duke of Kent , the opera 's patron , and Sir Michael Tippett , composer and president of Kent Opera , both fought to save the company , the first in regional professional opera to tour the country . |
| 4 | We now have an agreement from all those concerned — the colleges , consultants , juniors and the health service — and we must find practical arrangements in each working unit to complete the task . |
| 5 | Locally , for example , Thirsk ( 1973 , p. 262 ) notes that ‘ The nature of the farming economy in each agricultural region gave a certain bias to its bylaws ; communities inhabiting the same kinds of countryside upheld some regulations with great fidelity , while others did not ’ . |
| 6 | Analysis of survival by microbiological diagnosis was done with total events since the small number of definite diagnoses in each patient category precluded the use of the Kaplan-Meier approach . |
| 7 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 8 | of people in that wider community told a Harris poll that they believed that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax , 57 per cent . |
| 9 | In general , then , a bank 's highest yielding assets tend to be illiquid — for example , a large proportion of advances to customers , though profitable , are illiquid ; similarly , equities are illiquid in that any attempt to sell a large amount of stock would depress stock prices and cause capital losses . |
| 10 | Whilst he was Dean of Westminster he would devote three or four evenings a week to teaching the older boys of Westminster School : one of them remembered how he also would take the younger ones with him for walks ‘ and in that wayfaring leisure had a singular dexterity to fill those narrow vessels with a funnel … . |
| 11 | He will know that there is a temptation in that lesser assembly to emulate the topics and methods of procedure of the greater assembly of which he and I are Members . |
| 12 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 13 | In 1850 each MP received a pamphlet of ideas on the subject from Andrew Combe , brother of George . |
| 14 | It exploded just as Mr Major called in 20 more Tory rebels in another desperate bid to save the Maastricht Bill , and lift the question mark still hanging over his own political future . |
| 15 | I 'll think what I can do about that ; I do n't want to go back to Security or through Six … when you come down to it how do we know some of the Old Guard in those places are n't involved in this bloody attempt to run the country from the shadows ? |
| 16 | The cocoa farmers in this middle belt felt the same grievances against the CPP government that earlier the southerners felt towards the British : they were carrying others on their backs . |
| 17 | In this tranquil setting stands the distinctive form of Holme Castle , an impressive Victorian stone house built in 1820 . |
| 18 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
| 19 | Banks will lend to all but their smaller customers in this wholesale market adding an additional margin over Libor , which of course represents the bulk of their marginal funding cost . |
| 20 | On most issues , pupils in this primary class know the ‘ right ’ answers , but in other rooms there are reminders that the reality can be different . |
| 21 | The early retinoic acid-induced ectopic expression of the r4 Hox code in a broad anterior region of the hindbrain does not permanently result in this entire region adopting an r4 identity , as has been proposed . |
| 22 | In this latter attempt to turn the coercive action of metaphor back on itself lies the seed of the type of metaphor developed in Such . |
| 23 | The powerful pictures in this new IMAX have a force that no other medium can convey . |
| 24 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 25 | A unique opportunity to acquire a well appointed apartment in a prime position in this delightful village overlooking the green , with excellent access to Oxford and the M.40 alike . |
| 26 | Fresh and distinctive , the short stories in this remarkable collection portray a view of society that is infused with wry fun and a sharp but sympathetic wisdom , as Maeve Kelly captures the hopes , passions and despairs of women struggling with the constraints of everyday life . |
| 27 | But the full-moon eclipse on the 9th in this same area suggests an unexpected turn of events . |
| 28 | But in this very satisfaction lies the difficulty that for twenty years or more a good deal of self-esteem and affirmation has depended upon the parenting role . |
| 29 | If Bill Baudelaire 's mother knew her onions , in this undistinguished-looking bay lay the dormant seed of greatness . |
| 30 | We would consequently have to register some losses : we should be deprived of the 490 pages of Kurt von Fritz , The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity ( 1954 ) , which would be a pity because , against all probabilities , there is much incidental wisdom and knowledge in this preposterous attempt to compare the surely non-existent mixed constitution of Rome with the doubtfully existent mixed constitution of the United States . |