Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If normal good sleepers are woken from Stage I sleep or Stage 2 sleep , and asked whether they were awake or asleep , they tend to report definitely feeling asleep only In Stage 2 sleep , " 2 although this is not necessarily true for poor sleepers , who may deny they were asleep even when the EEG traces show clear signs of Stage 2 sleep . |
| 2 | He also interprets St Paul 's teaching to the Colossians ( 3:3 ) in these terms : His evocation of a silent darkness at the heart of which the soul is alive only in faith and expectant longing , combines the same sense of both end and beginning that Rolle creates at the end of his shorter Passion meditation when the process of penance linked with the stages of the Crucifixion concludes in the darkness of the entombment — a darkness which in the pattern of Incarnation is the prelude to dawn and Resurrection . |
| 3 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 4 | Technology from the semiconductor industry has allowed an experiment in fundamental physics previously possible only in theory . |
| 5 | In Verbivore Brooke-Rose makes use of techniques that are possible only in prose narrative : the mixing of documentary-like realism with ‘ events ’ which are unthinkable from a visual or aural point of view , and the circular embedding of narrative fragments . |
| 6 | Her mind was self-referring and exclusive as theirs were not — impersonal only in relation to the teasing-out of the intellectually taxing problem . |
| 7 | The tedium and discomfort of life which prevailed between moments of action and danger , and the feeling that they would never be strong enough in morale or matériel to take the offensive themselves , were dispelled when Montgomery took command of the Eighth Army later in the summer . |
| 8 | Something odd enough in shape not to be a normal part of living-room furniture . |
| 9 | Indeed , several authorities have striven to prove that the Pembroke and the White Park are different only in colour and that the Pembroke was a direct descendant of those tenth-century red-eared whites . |
| 10 | In this , the case of Pound is no different from other writers , or it is different only in degree . |
| 11 | 4 That he was n't interested enough in politics . |
| 12 | The capacity of the mature human individual to run through whole sets of possible scenarios as imagined responses to a problem situation or as a means to achieve a goal so far existent only in thought , is the secret of human ascendancy . |
| 13 | A desire to get to London can be irrational only in relation to other desires . |
| 14 | This was having something in common with your lover , she thought , remembering the way it had been with Mike , who was interested only in banking and golf and what he called making a home for one 's family . |
| 15 | With success inevitably came enemies , and Korn/Ferry , disliked by its competitors and seen as interested only in quantity , not quality , was banned from the headhunters ' club , the Association of Executive Recruitment Consultants . |
| 16 | In choosing protégés the PROFITBOSS is interested only in performance and potential , not patronage and politics . |
| 17 | We are interested only in quality . |
| 18 | Danger , as an experience which especially enlivens awareness and is unpleasant only in relation to consequences , is especially rich in possibilities of becoming enjoyable . |
| 19 | Part of the show will draw inspiration from Glasgow 's most famous architect , Charles Rennie Mackintosh , who favoured simple lines and plain colours , with black and white and muted tones of grey and brown much in evidence . |
| 20 | The resulting baking had a strong garlic flavour , more acceptable perhaps in bread , but cakes , Yuk ! |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 22 | The Irish National Liberation Army is interested more in violence itself than in nationalist aims |
| 23 | Picasso 's work is crude and direct both in colour and execution . |
| 24 | But the publication of these magazines was of course very demanding both in time and money and several faded away in the following decade , to be revived from time to time in spasmodic bouts of enthusiasm . |
| 25 | Anchorlite Slate is the result of 10 years research and development to produce a replacement for natural slate that is virtually indistinguishable both in weight and visual appeal . |
| 26 | The gnarled shapes were unmistakable even in semi-darkness . |
| 27 | Use was widespread in northern Europe in the Middle Ages , and the seeds and leaves are especially popular today in Norwegian and Swedish recipes . |
| 28 | He was all muscle and sinew , with no spare flesh as far as she could tell , the aura of strength very marked even in repose as he lay relaxed , his hands clasped behind his head , his face shuttered and dreaming as he listened to the music . |
| 29 | Other propositions may not be testable even in principle but may remain for the time as a necessary component of an overall paradigm . |
| 30 | The process of training and qualification does not automatically guarantee the surveyor job security and the buyer of professional services is no longer interested either in tradition for its own sake or in the mystique in which many professions have corseted themselves . |