Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 2 | All the grown-ups smiled in that boring way they have when little girls are being exceptionally sick-making . |
| 3 | Yet once they have collaborated in this verbal insincerity they reveal an extent of human viciousness no one could have expected . |
| 4 | I think surely we can not deny the facts that the police have received very good funding from this authority , and indeed in this current budget they continue to do so . |
| 5 | In this worthwhile presentation they have given the steam enthusiast a good variety of shots and locations which keep the interest for the full extent of the film . |
| 6 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 7 | But although such classifications may sometimes be useful in guiding empirical research they do not seem to me to take up directly the most important questions , which are those concerning the significance of social movements in the process of reproduction and transformation of total social systems . |
| 8 | In capitalist industrial society they include the relationship between employer and employee and the various rights of the two parties . |
| 9 | The rounded leafy plants do best in fertile , moist soil with some sun and shade ; in poor dry soil they become small and straggling . |
| 10 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 11 | They would be signs of an unprofessional subjectivism and impressionism ; in recent radical discourse they indicate an undesirable mystification . |