Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 2 | Kylie remembered : ‘ I had to speak in a Dutch accent which I was n't very good at . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll have to eat together , ’ I said in a doleful tone which I knew would upset my mother as much as the vision which my remark would conjure up . |
| 4 | And yet somehow the thing was still able to consume and digest the normal fats and proteins , converting them to energy , in a complex manner which they had never really been able to explain . |
| 5 | It should try to work out what sort of thing you were trying to say , and maybe be able to work out in , in a general way what you mean , but just need one extra piece of information to disambiguate what you 'd said . |
| 6 | The existential proposition here merely expresses in a general form what we know to be the case in a particular instance , i.e. that the concept man does indeed have an application . |
| 7 | ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’ |
| 8 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 9 | But for me there were still many problems to be overcome , and — to cut a long story short — I solved most of them by becoming a partner in a small company which we named Island Holidays . |
| 10 | Her lips parted in a small smile which she could not control . |
| 11 | The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window . |
| 12 | He looked a dangerous striker and got in a good header which I think you got to the right and got your hand to ? |
| 13 | On his death , Mrs. Fielding had her husband 's ashes put in a specially-made cask which she kept on her dressing table in her bedroom . |
| 14 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 15 | In a remarkable letter which he wrote in nineteen-eighteen , he said , ‘ I must , before I die , find some way to say the essential thing that is in me , that I have never said yet , a thing that is not love , or hate , or pity , or scorn , but the very breath of life , fierce and coming from far away , bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things . ’ |
| 16 | He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending . |
| 17 | Some of those taking ; part were already in costume : Jilly Fox was wearing what looked like an Iranian chadour , contrived from a sheet , Karen Gray was dressed up as a nurse , and Bob Saxby who taught pottery was encased in a Michelin-man spacesuit which he claimed was an Arctic explorer 's sleeping bag . |
| 18 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 19 | In the men 's event , the Wilson team overcame Garrett Paine 's US quartet in a dour struggle which they should have won comfortably . |
| 20 | We collect together most of the information erm in a single brochure which we call ‘ Services for Industry ’ . |
| 21 | I was amazed at the size of it , it felt vast , and I was put in a two-bedded room which I had to myself as the house was n't full . |
| 22 | I think in a two-minute interview what you can expect is no more than two or three questions , possibly four . |
| 23 | But how could I achieve in a few minutes what I had failed to accomplish after hours of trying ? |
| 24 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |