Example sentences of "in [art] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 2 | ‘ I assume you 're using the word ‘ nice ’ in the true sense of ‘ neat ’ , as in the neatly ruthless deals I 'm sure he 's notorious for clinching , or the neat asset-stripping technique which I dare say he 's renowned for ? ’ |
| 3 | Throughout the book I have extolled the virtues of the post office , mainly because , even in the most rural areas you are likely to have a sub post office , where you will be able to deposit and withdraw money all week and on Saturday mornings as well . |
| 4 | In the most recent mills it was made of steel ; but more commonly it was a piece of springy willow wood collected from a convenient pollard . |
| 5 | … that after paying at least a dozen visits to Cambridge and engaging in the most unpleasant negotiations I have ever had in my life , we have managed to retain recognition as a body which is normally recognised for Chapter III powers and obtained an agreement which the University people hate like poison . |
| 6 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 7 | Given the setbacks encountered in the really big cases it is understandable that the authorities now wish to make some headway as regards the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. accusations which , although dwarfed by comparison with Carrian and B.M.F.L. , were nevertheless concerned with really serious offences : as witness the long sentences imposed on those who have been dealt with on kindred matters . |
| 8 | Mr Phillipson wrote : ‘ Hancock recalls that in the less traumatic moments he was struck by the rich red colour of some of the massive formations as they slipped by barely a metre from his wing-tips . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 10 | In the very best hotels it is those who have an instinct for the business who will stand out . |
| 11 | In the very last months they cry more than ever . |
| 12 | Manufacturing accounts for a relatively small proportion of employment in rural areas , and in the more remote regions it has been estimated that this can be as low as 10–20 per cent ( Gilg 1976 ) . |
| 13 | The familiarity of their London setting accounted , perhaps , both for their easy assimilation into the literary world and for their contemporary readers ' lack of genuine interest in the more esoteric themes they raise . |
| 14 | In a very few moments she was racing from her room and into the sitting-room . |
| 15 | It 's an allergic condition , usually pretty harmless , but in a very few cases it causes oedema of the larynx — that 's what we 've got here . " |
| 16 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |