Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
| 2 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 3 | In the immediate post-war years there was an attempt to absolve the bureaucracy of responsibility for externally aggressive and internally repressive policies , by pointing out the ways in which bureaucrats had tried to hold back military excesses . |
| 4 | They were rejoicing in the splendid Irish Guinness they drank and bemoaned the sad state of beer back in Britain . |
| 5 | Even in the stale electric light he could visualise the scene like an old , blurred snapshot . |
| 6 | I liked too to see the toddlers playing happily in the small grassy graveyard which adjoined it , their blue and white checked overalls gay against the sober grey of the simple tombstones . |
| 7 | We squashed side by side in the small double bed which I shared with Grandma when she came to stay . |
| 8 | There was a se er a little seat situated in the great long ribs there was across , and then there was the side that . |
| 9 | In the great high hall there is an enormous and glamorous portrait of Webb on a black charger , by Wooton . |
| 10 | Students are selected to take part in the four regional finals which involve preparing the menu in cook-offs , and from each regional final a student team is selected for the grand final . |
| 11 | The first concerned the large army of lay or local preachers : for every minister in the four leading denominations there were seven lay preachers . |
| 12 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 13 | These changes in technique with boat shape can be shown in the forward paddling style which is the basis of the first two articles . |
| 14 | But her hands sought each other in the nervous wringing motion which he had seen before . |
| 15 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |
| 16 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 17 | Clarence Hiles in the Ulster Cricketer , reiterates the esteem in which Sean was held by describing him as the doyen of Irish cricket writers ‘ who tackled all the main issues , in the caring thoughtful manner which made him so popular with both players and officials alike . ’ |
| 18 | Clarence Hiles in the Ulster Cricketer , reiterates the esteem in which Sean was held by describing him as the doyen of Irish cricket writers ‘ who tackled all the main issues , in the caring thoughtful manner which made him so popular with both players and officials alike . ’ |
| 19 | The upper house of the federal assembly rejected by 18 votes to 17 a motion of no confidence in the Yugoslav-born American millionaire who took office in July , promising to heal ethnic rifts . |
| 20 | She infers from this : ‘ thus , in the appropriate real-life situation he learns concrete activities , not abstract generalisations ’ ( ibid. p. 170 ) . |
| 21 | In the wide ranging debates which accompanied the Prime Minister 's Review of the NHS , there was widespread agreement both on the strengths and weaknesses of the British health care system . |
| 22 | In the mainstream Christian tradition it is the human suffering of God ( of God , not some limited , changeable , process-god ) that redeems our agonised world . |
| 23 | In the infrequent acute infections there may be high mortality . |
| 24 | When such ‘ dispositive ’ or ‘ objective ’ regimes were accepted as being in the general public interest they were said to be binding erga omnes . |
| 25 | Those in the agricultural contracting business who had attended said that ATB courses had given them the confidence and skill to undertake these jobs . |
| 26 | In the dark little passage she hesitated outside the door of the front room . |
| 27 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 28 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
| 29 | In the early postwar decades it seemed that governments had some clear options . |
| 30 | But in the early postwar years its import surplus was so large that despite expanded gold exports it was a net drawer on the sterling pool , until it left the pool at the end of 1947 . |