Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His stride shortened ; his legs felt leaden ; his breathing , till now perceptible only in a slight flaring of the nostrils , became harsh and ragged , his mouth wide open , his teeth biting desperately at the intangible air . |
| 2 | ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis . |
| 3 | In that case it is no obstacle to freedom that actions are predictable ; indeed , free and rational action is possible only in a predictable world . |
| 4 | Looking , for instance , at grammatically equivalent substitutions , main is possible only in a , ajar only in b , disappear only in c , and hit only in d . |
| 5 | Series producer Madeline Wilstshire explains : ‘ We have more drama in this series but the reporters are not actors , they 're just ordinary teenagers who are interested enough in a subject to want to make a television programme about it . ’ |
| 6 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |
| 7 | Earliest into the national newspaper market after 1945 was the Pearson group , previously interested only in a regional newspaper chain ( Westminster Press ) . |
| 8 | This implies that , if one is interested only in a limited number of eigenvalues , the power method is the obvious choice . |
| 9 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 10 | Standing in the queue were problems of the economy , of the development of the productive forces , which , with regard to agriculture , was conceivable only in a form of the growth of petty-bourgeois economy . |
| 11 | I have heard reports that it can be glimpsed in binoculars , but even with my × 20 I have been unable to find it — though it is clear enough in a 15-cm reflecting telescope , and I can just make it out with my 7.6-cm refractor . |
| 12 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 13 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 14 | It would , as Mr. Lloyd conceded , be exercisable also in a case where no misrepresentation inducing the transaction could be pointed to but where a registered proprietor had entered into a transaction under a misapprehension for which the other party to the transaction was not responsible , a misapprehension as to the value of the property , for example . |
| 15 | He felt that MacArthur was not interested now in a peace conference actually meeting but rather of putting forward the proposal in order for the Soviet Union to reject it . |
| 16 | The evening arrived ; the soup was served , and the bowls were empty again in a few seconds . |
| 17 | First , the global standardization of taste is global only in a class sense . |
| 18 | L. John Chapman ( 1987 , p.9 ) says rather primary ‘ there are many that are proficient only in a non-standard version of English ’ . |
| 19 | I do n't think I 'd have been warm enough in a shellsuit . |
| 20 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 21 | It will be obvious that I am using liberal here in a very broad sense . |
| 22 | Alum Pot is straight ahead in a plantation of trees and is reached on foot in a few minutes , arriving there simultaneously with Alum Pot Beck which enters the plantation and disappears into the depths . |
| 23 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 24 | As he grew up , he lost his appetite for the game and , natural enough in a teenager , he questioned his motives and direction , and was lost to the scheme . |
| 25 | If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 26 | they found a room large enough in a dark part of Nightside and after clearing out the bugs , milkcrates , music stands and rusty oil drums , used it as a workshop . |
| 27 | Chocolate and chips are fine once in a while , but every day it 's a disaster , says Derek Cooper |
| 28 | That was lucky really in a way |
| 29 | In Cyrenaica , then , the social and economic pattern was agricultural , and to a degree which was thought remarkable even in a world not familiar with alternatives to agricultural economies ( p. 13 ) . |
| 30 | New east-west fold mountains immediately began to be destroyed again , producing mountains of conglomerate such as the fantastic shapes of Montserrat , near Barcelona ( plate 8.1 ) which is remarkable even in a country of conglomerates like Spain . |