Example sentences of "in [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard his voice downstairs , talking in the rather affected boom he put on for strangers . |
| 2 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |
| 3 | Increasingly in the later eighteenth century it was felt , at least in intellectual and opinion-forming circles , that monarchy was on trial , that kings must now provide not merely good government but progressive government . |
| 4 | The prime minister 's smile spread even further in the slightly crooked way it had when he thought he had an opponent hoist with his own petard . |
| 5 | Adjuring Theda , in the prettiest way , to wait for her here , Miss Merchiston then escorted Mr Quatt to the front door , presumably bidding him a fond farewell in the sickeningly sugary tone she had chosen to adopt towards him . |
| 6 | In the enormously long statement which followed the Communists were branded as ‘ Vipers in the bosom ’ . |
| 7 | In point of fact , when radical theorists invoke ‘ politics ’ they mean Marxist politics , in the paradoxically timeless fashion I have just referred to . |
| 8 | A significant minority of one parent families is also concentrated in the privately rented sector which includes some of the oldest housing stock with the poorest amenities . |
| 9 | Instead of allocating resources in the most efficient way there is a list of priorities . |
| 10 | In the most serious incident he battered a Russian student unconscious . |
| 11 | GEORGE GRAHAM last night vowed to silence the boo-boys who bait his players in the most spectacular way he can — by winning the Premier League . |
| 12 | And if national sentiment in the other , France , was initially a response to the threat from England , just as it was in Scotland , there was no doubt of France 's position by the end of the fifteenth century ; the dazzling army and glittering artillery train which Charles VIII led down through the length of Italy in 1494 — for no good reason other than that a young king , with a well-stuffed treasury , would naturally use his wealth to win military renown — symbolized in the most spectacular manner what this kingdom , so recently weakened by war and internal dissension , had now become . |
| 13 | The boy fought wildly for a few seconds but then his right arm was bent back behind him until he called out in the most desperate agony he had ever known . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ We have to employ resources in the most effective way we can to cover the whole of the demand as it occurs . ’ |
| 15 | The resources of the AIB and its equivalent organisations throughout the world are necessarily limited for reasons of economy , and the person in charge has to deploy his forces in the most effective manner he can devise while at the same time always keeping enough reserves in hand in case of a major catastrophe . |
| 16 | A quarter of the Japanese population , some 30 million people , live in the most exposed area which also contains not only the vast bulk of the business community but also an alarming quantity of chemical plants . |
| 17 | An example is provided by one Parkinson , a Victorian clean-up campaigner , whose moral objection to " public dancing " led him to allege that a ballet at the Royal Aquarium had involved a Japanese female catching a butterfly " in the most indecent place you could possibly imagine . " |
| 18 | Erm everything is done in the most accurate way we can . |
| 19 | She had ground her way through part-time jobs and four years of medicine and two years of internship without complaining , without ever questioning her dream to help her fellow man in the most noble way she could imagine . |
| 20 | In the most common form they can be seen as ‘ enclaves treated as being outside the customs territory of the host state , where goods might be imported , stored , processed and re-exported without becoming subject to customs duties ’ ( Morison , 1987 , p. 103 ) . |
| 21 | The only means he has of doing that is by accepting new clause S. He will have to come up with very convincing arguments to persuade any Hon. Member that he can not accept it , but it is framed in the most uncontentious way anyone could imagine . |
| 22 | In the most dreadful weather he would stand and wait in a wet grove of ash and hazel for a shot at a woodcock . |
| 23 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |
| 24 | Cobalt called in the most enthusiastic tone she had ever heard from him . |
| 25 | But in the somewhat artificial world you are creating , six different motives you may well need . |
| 26 | But she had re-entered the world of music , she comforted herself with this ; in the least expected way she was back in the life from which Mike and his family and marriage had threatened to cut her off for ever . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm Virginia Chester , ’ she managed at last , in the quietly intense tone which would doubtless have triggered a red alert among family and friends alike . |
| 28 | In Italy a few famous and ancient republics — Venice , Genoa , Lucca — continued to exist ; and in some of them republican government , even in the highly oligarchical form which had prevailed in these small States for centuries , continued to arouse genuine loyalty . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , in the highly competitive situation which developed , building societies were able to increase their share of this market and Birmingham Midshires ' share of building society net advances rose during 1989 to 1.7% compared with 1.6% the previous year . |
| 30 | A small proportion of the ladies of the upper classes entered convents ; the remainder were married off , where possible , shortly after puberty ; in the very highest society they had commonly been betrothed , sometimes more than once , in babyhood . |