Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catch some flies , small moths , mosquitoes or other fairly small insects and keep them alive in a jar . |
| 2 | So I mean perhaps they 'd be better off dead , just keeping them alive in a state of sickness or in coma or something of this sort — there was a great discussion about this and that erm you see not even life is the ultimate good in a sense , you see , at some point death is better . |
| 3 | And catch them alive in the burrows . |
| 4 | There is nothing subjective in the act of thinking . ’ |
| 5 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 6 | There was nothing odd in the stuff , as far as the Inspector could see . |
| 7 | Yet there is nothing inherent in the nature of work to produce such responses . |
| 8 | The portfolio matrix could be used to focus on different risk-return combinations and to develop a corporate mixed risk-return portfolio , but there is absolutely nothing inherent in the McKinsey-GE model which says that this is what a portfolio grid is meant to achieve . |
| 9 | They looked very strange , it is true , but they kept me dry in the rain . |
| 10 | Now of course that , it is the defendant 's case I anticipate , erm is er , although there 's nothing specific in the rule about it , is said to be er only a possibility for a plaintiff if the plaintiff when they sell , he or she served the notice to complete is in a position to be able to complete himself and here . |
| 11 | I formed the opinion that there was absolutely nothing undesirable in the case . |
| 12 | Did you tell them that in the farm . |
| 13 | And that wretched Richard , ’ she added impatiently , ‘ Has got me right in a corner by bringing that nice man here and letting him invite Dickie down to Devon . |
| 14 | See I do I get them right in the class |
| 15 | There is nothing discreditable in a bailiff appropriating to his lord 's use his own products , e.g. to brew from his own barley , to make cloth and linen from his own wool and flax , feed his horses from his own produce . |
| 16 | Over three days , speakers repeatedly conjured up images of incompetent social engineers , bent on disarming honest citizens and leaving them helpless in the face of criminals ; ‘ anti-gun fetishists ’ in the media , with their expense-account life-styles and homes far from the front line ; lawyers who turn criminals out on to the streets to kill and rape again ; and , above all , the federal government , which is determined to subvert the constitution by establishing a monopoly of arms . |
| 17 | However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have . |
| 18 | In the absence of an express confidentiality term in the contract of employment , it was said in Printers and Finishers Ltd. v Holloway [ 1965 ] that there would be nothing improper in the employee putting his memory of particular features of his previous employer 's plant at the disposal of his new employer . |
| 19 | Last night , on ’ Newsnight ’ , Mr. Brendan Bruce , the former director of communications for the Tories , said : ’ No-one sensible in the Tory Party actually believes the Labour Party would put up public spending by £37 billion ’ . |
| 20 | You 're right Harley , there is nothing altruistic in the motivations of either Novell or USL . |
| 21 | After all , there would be nothing wrong in a day out for both of them . |
| 22 | However , that did not invalidate the expert 's decision , and there was nothing wrong in the expert meeting both of the parties to discuss his certificate . |
| 23 | I can see nothing irrational in the Secretary of State devolving the task upon junior ministers . |
| 24 | She crouched as the great flock screamed past her , wings humming ; some of them tangled in the trees , a few panicked as they shattered themselves against the stone of the fortress , or flew frantically in the confined space of the room ; but most of them circled above her head , then streamed away to the south , lost against the fading luminescence of the sky . |
| 25 | Put the woodlice in a small plastic box , bottle or tube to carry them home , then set them free in the pot . |
| 26 | Charlotte told me this in a letter she sent from Scarborough , a town by the sea on the north-east coast . |
| 27 | A friend showed me this in the newspaper . |
| 28 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 29 | That might make me popular in the colleges ( laughs ) . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , now they 've become very erm , there 's nothing exciting in the lighting shops in Harlow now , at all . |