Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technical accomplishments of modern medicine mean that doctors can often save the life of someone who in previous ages would have died . |
| 2 | a celestial policeman ; 2. an absentee landlord ; 3. a magician ; 4. a being greater than anything we can possibly think of ; 5. an old man on a cloud ; 6. light which gives life ; 7. the conclusion of a mathematical theorem ; 8. the chairman of a rather boring harp-playing assembly ; 9. a presence who is loving and just ; 10. a crutch for people who ca n't cope ; 11. an all-powerful dictator ; 12. a character in a fairy-story ; 13. a power that is either evil or indifferent to suffering ; 14. a heavenly Santa Claus ; 15. a king who is just and holy ; 16. electricity which is invisible and powerful , useful but dangerous ; 17. a slot-machine whom you can approach with a coin and get out what you want ; 18. the ground without which nothing in this world could exist . |
| 3 | If the success of the election hinged on any one province , it was Kompong Cham — the home of Hun Sen , the prime minister of the Phnom Penh government and the area from which one in six of the members of Cambodia 's constituent assembly will be returned . |
| 4 | ‘ Which one in particular ? |
| 5 | Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’ |
| 6 | That is the price the Chancellor and the Prime Minister think is worth paying — the price of decline and despair for families , the price of the dissolution of industries upon which we in this country depend for our future . |
| 7 | Paintings which he in spected personally have their titles printed in bold capitals , distinguishing them from those known primarily through books and hearsay , whose titles ap pear in lower-case . |
| 8 | She says ; I feel I would be failing in my duty as a hostess if I did not tell you everything in this house stops for tea . |
| 9 | If you want I 'll cut you it in half otherwise . |
| 10 | Well yes it may be important and if if you ca n't to say but did you yourself in any event look at the voters register , the electoral role ? |
| 11 | Do n't they teach you anything in English schools ? |
| 12 | She cried , because tears are cheap ; and then she 'd stopped , and got by , because nobody gives you anything in this world . |
| 13 | Roberto blinks and smiles , then picks up the novel and my small dictionary and balances them one in each hand . |
| 14 | ‘ Then you tell me everything in brief , and quickly . |
| 15 | But one time er I 'd been er I were wounded and I 'd come out of er they bring you to casual clearly stations , thousands got into one I in this ward er tents and best way they could you know and nurses there and all . |
| 16 | Blanketing everything is something which in other places is known as a sea fret but which in Redcar is called a Cleveland cocktail sling together two parts ICI , one British Steel and another of general fug and serve it up stirred not shaken . |
| 17 | This immediate consciousness of dependence is something which in Kantian language might be called ‘ transcendental ’ . |
| 18 | Sure they won one nil in fourteen minutes they were up one nil and France could n't score |
| 19 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 20 | What I 'm really searching for is a bit more evidence from the C , all participants as to why the principle of expanding an exis existing settlement has been rejected , I well appreciate that those who lived in the settlement that was chosen would not like it , but that 's not the point I 'm getting at , is there nothing in this principle of building on what 's there ? |
| 21 | ‘ Was there something in that last bottle of wine ? ’ |
| 22 | Bad taste , do you , do you really rather disapprove anything that it is in any of them , do you think it inappropriate , not on , is there something in bad taste ? |
| 23 | very old , see I said , there one in antique shop exactly like that , but I said , but it were cracked and they wanted twenty six pound for it . |
| 24 | Oh must of emptied these fairly recently , it 's not too bad is there lots in that one ? |
| 25 | Is there anything in that universe that would be like a black hole to a beetle ? ’ |
| 26 | Is there anything in this for church house groups ? |
| 27 | ‘ Is there anything in this abbey that has even the vaguest reference to Jordan 's water or the Ark of Moses ? ’ |
| 28 | My name is Bill and I work for a firm called Peter 's Windows , we manufacture and fit high quality conservatories , patio doors , double glazing and se security windows etcetera , is there anything in this line you 'll be do you think ? |
| 29 | Was there anything in those files you talked about ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Now , is there anything in particular you 'd like to do or see ? ’ |