Example sentences of "[adj] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parody can sometimes get to the heart of the matter in a way that imitation can not , and George Birmingham 's King Tommy is genuinely Ruritanian in its quirky way . |
| 2 | Their poison has the same origin as that of the snakes — modified saliva — but the animals are much more primitive in their wounding mechanism . |
| 3 | another of our teams on the wrong end of the result this weekend … were Gloucester … they went and lost to London Scottish in their first league match of the season … the score eight-three |
| 4 | Providing they beat both Saracens and London Scottish in their remaining two games they can finish as high as fifth in the Premier Division . |
| 5 | By now almost wholly French in his artistic outlook , in August 1824 he was as amazed as his French contemporaries when Constable 's Hay Wain and Hampstead Heath were exhibited at the famous Salon Anglais . |
| 6 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 7 | ‘ The stock market has recognised this in its affirmative response to the rights issue and the share price now stands at 53p against the 38p that would have resulted if the market had simply absorbed the rights issue and stood still . ’ |
| 8 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) has at last faced up to this in its latest World Economic Outlook . |
| 9 | The Government has acknowledged this in its White Paper on Financial Services : |
| 10 | Why Decca missed this in her long partnership with Solti remains a mystery . |
| 11 | She would never have thought that she could feel like this in her whole life . |
| 12 | It was the final straw , being trapped like this in her own flat . |
| 13 | All young players must accept periods like this in their early days . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the Earth to Earth Society was marketing a framed coffin covered in pulp ; Dottridge Bros offered two versions of this in their 1902 catalogue , the ‘ Terra ’ and the ‘ Translation ’ . |
| 15 | The dreams tell us this in their miserable iteration . |
| 16 | Pringle and coworkers do this in their large descriptive study of possible associations between a range of variables related to the patient , doctor , practice , and process of care and the concentrations of glycated haemoglobin in diabetic patients in Nottingham ( p 630 ) . |
| 17 | A particularly straightforward procedure in principle and yet a very informative one is to add carefully a layer of hot salty water on top of one of cold fresh water ( or the counterpart of this in which two solutes are used instead of heat and one solute ) . |
| 18 | Commenting on Attorney General William Barr 's refusal in August to appoint a special prosecutor [ see p. 39044 ] , Shoob said that this in itself raised concerns " about the government 's impartiality in handling this case " . |
| 19 | When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life . |
| 20 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 21 | I have never felt as strong as this in my whole life . ’ |
| 22 | I can see this in my own case , where losing a job or a home has in certain instances reopened old wounds . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've got things like this in my own garage at home . |
| 24 | We shall refer to this in our final section . |
| 25 | The Women Artists Slide Library is also being asked to profile its work at the 181 Gallery in Hammersmith in December and there will be more news on this in our next issue . |
| 26 | Vincent took this in his masochistic stride . |
| 27 | He said this in his firm business voice , not his usually listless home voice , and she accepted his direction as readily as one of his mechanics would have done . |
| 28 | Edwin Harris , who wrote many books on Rochester states this in his Second Siege of Rochester Castle . |
| 29 | He repeated this in his second autobiographical volume How to make Enemies . |
| 30 | Joe Darby explains the strategy for achieving this in his Chief Executive 's review . |