Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at that properly in a minute . |
| 2 | The formal breakfast at eight o'clock in a high-ceilinged dining room with heavy mahogany sideboards and floor-to-ceiling windows was n't everyone else 's way of life . |
| 3 | His stride shortened ; his legs felt leaden ; his breathing , till now perceptible only in a slight flaring of the nostrils , became harsh and ragged , his mouth wide open , his teeth biting desperately at the intangible air . |
| 4 | ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis . |
| 5 | In that case it is no obstacle to freedom that actions are predictable ; indeed , free and rational action is possible only in a predictable world . |
| 6 | Looking , for instance , at grammatically equivalent substitutions , main is possible only in a , ajar only in b , disappear only in c , and hit only in d . |
| 7 | Orchomenos was the only state in Boiotia other than Thebes which had any natural claim to rule all Boiotia ; Tanagra 's brief attempt was possible only in an unusual period when Thebes after her medism was in temporary discredit . |
| 8 | We would bring all that together in a strategic authority , which would not be dictated to by Whitehall and the mandarins down here . |
| 9 | I mention this merely in an effort to chase any preconceptions , which may have been created by the opening paragraphs , firmly away . |
| 10 | Series producer Madeline Wilstshire explains : ‘ We have more drama in this series but the reporters are not actors , they 're just ordinary teenagers who are interested enough in a subject to want to make a television programme about it . ’ |
| 11 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |
| 12 | Earliest into the national newspaper market after 1945 was the Pearson group , previously interested only in a regional newspaper chain ( Westminster Press ) . |
| 13 | This implies that , if one is interested only in a limited number of eigenvalues , the power method is the obvious choice . |
| 14 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 15 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 16 | Three or four years ago we were involved in this only in a very minor way . |
| 17 | Standing in the queue were problems of the economy , of the development of the productive forces , which , with regard to agriculture , was conceivable only in a form of the growth of petty-bourgeois economy . |
| 18 | I have heard reports that it can be glimpsed in binoculars , but even with my × 20 I have been unable to find it — though it is clear enough in a 15-cm reflecting telescope , and I can just make it out with my 7.6-cm refractor . |
| 19 | Woodland has , therefore , been managed for a very long time and we shall examine this further in a moment . |
| 20 | The following account will suggest that many such pairs are etymological doublets , and we shall consider this further in an appendix to the chapter . |
| 21 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 22 | The Ulster Branch recognise the situation — it only happens like this once in a blue moon — but finding an answer is n't easy . |
| 23 | They usually help one another more in a dangerous situation . |
| 24 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 25 | In his early days with Norwich he took ‘ stick ’ from fellow players and the opposition , but reflected on this favourably in a way which says much of himself and of other successful black sportsmen . |
| 26 | It would , as Mr. Lloyd conceded , be exercisable also in a case where no misrepresentation inducing the transaction could be pointed to but where a registered proprietor had entered into a transaction under a misapprehension for which the other party to the transaction was not responsible , a misapprehension as to the value of the property , for example . |
| 27 | He felt that MacArthur was not interested now in a peace conference actually meeting but rather of putting forward the proposal in order for the Soviet Union to reject it . |
| 28 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 29 | where did you see this then in a magazine or something ? |
| 30 | Henry and Louis were to witness this again in a greater town than Laon . |