Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although by now she had had twenty years in which to accustom herself to Bernard 's outbursts in private , and , in a curious way this display of his male aggression was also a powerful magnetic force for her , she was nonetheless acutely embarrassed by any public display of his temper . |
| 2 | Stuart , who plans to see an acupuncturist tomorrow in an attempt to cure the problem , may compete for the North in a representative match this weekend before endeavouring to raise her spirits for the Olympic trials meeting . |
| 3 | [ Arthur Jacobs ' book Arthur Sullivan : A Victorian Composer , from Solar Press , appears in a new edition this month , at £35.00 — Ed . ] |
| 4 | In a picturesque setting this Regency Museum holds interest for everyone . |
| 5 | It expresses one 's readiness to have a certain attitude to the person named by ‘ you ’ if he acts in a certain way , and in a broad sense this readiness is itself an attitude . |
| 6 | MY husband got PMT in a bad way this morning … |
| 7 | In a bad mood this morning ? |
| 8 | She 's been in a funny mood this morning . |
| 9 | In a nuclear reactor this force is controlled to generate heat instead . |
| 10 | Injecting drugs with a shared needle and syringe. ( 20 people can get infected in a single evening this way . ) |
| 11 | In a microprogrammed computer this simulator program could be written in microcode to improve performance ; of course , the standard microcode in the new computer is really only a simulator for the new instruction set . |
| 12 | It is a miracle indeed that in a hostile Universe this planet should provide conditions where such fragility can persist . |
| 13 | In a few specimens this papillae may be partially divided giving the appearance of being two papillae . |
| 14 | For those bogwarts who 're still stuck , I 've thrown in a few tips this month . |
| 15 | He was , nevertheless , in a genial mood this morning . |
| 16 | In a Christian context this appeal is to Christ ; in a pre-Christian context they could be a pagan 's appeal , to a forerunner of Christ , to a Saviour whose nature he did not know . |
| 17 | In a written answer this week , the Secretary of State for Scotland has confirmed that , in advance of the local inquiry , he and the Scottish Office have entered into a commercial contract with the designated builders of the project . |
| 18 | She spotted an identical model to the one she gave back in a cost-cutting gesture this week when she visited a bicycle tyre factory in Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | The coward in me hopes that Pendero gets beaten in an honest race this afternoon . |
| 20 | One thing that , that we did spend , I mean , I do n't know the Festival seems to come in an awful rush this time I suppose cos , cos |
| 21 | Whereas in a Chinese context the meaning of the gesture would seem perfectly transparent , in an English context this behaviour would be totally bewildering because it is not part of the English conventions of politesse . |
| 22 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 23 | In an extreme form this analysis would suggest that the senior civil servants constitute an effective and permanent ruling class forced to make adjustments to their policies from time to time because of the intervention of ministers . |