Example sentences of "[pron] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I in actual fact went to the er , Remembrance Day Parade and to see those kids do a silent drill , it 's unbelievable . |
| 2 | ‘ We will not cut off someone in genuine need , ’ he said , adding that the average cost of water worked out at 56p per day . |
| 3 | The overall impression resulting from these findings is that emergency services specifically designed for potential attempters might be of benefit to some , but the impulsive nature of the act , and the fact that the attempt often appears to be carried out with a particular purpose not related to help-seeking , but aimed at someone in close proximity , reduces the chances of preventing suicide attempts by this method alone . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone in overall charge of training who should have had some formal training in that field themselves ’ . |
| 5 | When a matter of serious public concern arises which leads to a great deal of media interest , someone in central office says , ’ We must show that something is being done . ’ |
| 6 | When public funds are required to support someone in private care the needs of that person should be assessed in the same way as for admission to statutory care and admission should depend on the results of that assessment . |
| 7 | Table 5.5 Elderly households with someone in paid work by age of oldest member Percentage of households with at least one member in paid work |
| 8 | Primaflora appeared wholly unruffled , but every now and then someone in royal livery would appear in the yard and go away again . |
| 9 | She guessed someone in Special Branch or the intelligence services had objected to her enquiries and that Spittals or the commander had simply capitulated . |
| 10 | It costs upwards of £300 a week to keep someone in residential care . |
| 11 | Taxation is an occasion when someone in judicial office will see your file and this will be a reflection on your firm . |
| 12 | Then , suddenly , we found ourselves in brilliant sunshine at the southern outskirts of the city , at the foot of the pre-Alps , where the River Adige emerges into the plain . |
| 13 | In a review essay written two years before ‘ Pornography and Obscenity ’ , Lawrence attacks the way we have ( allegedly ) come to think of ourselves in modern civilization . |
| 14 | But she was in the right and so she held her body erect , her tiny , heart-shaped face raised to his in haughty indifference however close to angry tears she might be . |
| 15 | She could hear Penry 's heart pounding against hers , as her kisses matched his in utter frenzy . |
| 16 | Through a half-open door she saw a glimmer of white and stiffened , nauseated , as she saw Melanie over Penry 's shoulder , her face held up to his in impassioned invitation . |
| 17 | She was naked , completely naked , and she could hear his harshly muttered words of desire ; they excited her beyond belief , her body twisting against his in mindless fever , all flesh and blood and pulse . |
| 18 | In the end , virtually nobody in Californian politics believes the Speaker will dare run for governor . |
| 19 | Sixteen years later , it was claimed that ‘ nobody in biomedical research wanted the War on Cancer ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ One good thing about this action , ’ Terhune claimed , ‘ at least nobody in Dead Rat could possibly be classed as an ‘ innocent bystander ’ . ’ |
| 21 | I doubt if that is so I think to some extent we may be in what we are saying and doing , feeding the current which says that nobody in national politics could conceivably be honest or decent or competent in any way whatsoever , that to be a Member of the House of Commons or to be a Member of the Government is somehow to have the mark of put upon them . |
| 22 | They can be seen in the importance to conservatives of the notion of authority , a notion which in liberal thought is presented less positively and often as a potential threat to liberty . |
| 23 | THERE IS A CREEK in North America which in early summer is overhung with arching fronds of flowers ; you have to duck in and out of them as you paddle the canoe . |
| 24 | They bear more blooms than H.T.s : some are very floriferous indeed , and bear large clusters which in stagnant air conditions , can increase the risk of diseases like mildew and those pests that do n't like being blown about . |
| 25 | They fall into two primary classes which legal theory tries to keep rigidly separated but which in economic reality merge into each other . |
| 26 | Before leaving for Bruges , he invites the monk , John : where " " pleye " " is clearly intended by the merchant in what the modern reader can identify as a particularly childish sense — " to play , have fun " — but which in Middle English , not unlike Modern English , also carries an additional sense of sexual play , and can also , appropriately , be used in the sense of playing tricks ( a semantic range similar to that of Old French dobler : cf. |
| 27 | So , we are talking about countries which in total cover more than one quarter of the earth 's surface with a population of 400 million people |
| 28 | So , we are talking about countries which in total cover more than one quarter of the earth 's surface with a population of 400 million people , stretching from well north of the arctic circle to the Mediterranean . |
| 29 | They are also the very wishes which in total welfare states lead to what we may justly term the externalization of paranoia : for in these totalitarian societies the delusions of the paranoiac become actual , tangible realities . |
| 30 | Each caste was subdivided into jatis or subcastes , which in total number many thousands . |