Example sentences of "[indef pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now , you may be a little embarrassed to discuss how you work with people other than in this classroom , although , as the course goes on , you 'll find more and more people doing Hamlet in other classes , and you might find , especially when you 're in the upper sixth , when someone in the lower sixth comes to you and says , what does this mean that you can talk about it with them , okay .
2 Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered someone in the stylish thriller Shattered .
3 Most likely there will be someone in the close family or a reliable friend .
4 For someone in the early stages of mastering Coke throat-burn like myself , this is impressive .
5 ‘ Put me through to the police office , please , ’ he said to someone in the outer office .
6 There could be someone in the outside world who is prepared to take over and put money into the club .
7 ‘ And someone in the Interior Ministry might blow the whistle on you ? ’
8 Ideally someone in the ferreting party will be given the task of removing each rabbit as soon as it is caught up .
9 The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups .
10 There was always something for someone in the criminal world .
11 Fritzy , bleerk with Ministry , breaks his hand hitting someone in the same brawl .
12 Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) .
13 Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) .
14 Though Craig and Jo have a number of sexy scenes together in Home and Away , she says the advantage of her real-life relationship with someone in the same industry is that her partner fully understands that romantic clinches with an international heart-throb are just part of the job .
15 There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance .
16 As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) .
17 ‘ We would expect to see him in a couple of warm-up fights , certainly someone in the top 10 , before he fights Mike Tyson again , if that is to happen , ’ said Morris .
18 ‘ Frank has to prove himself by really beating someone in the top ten .
19 Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach .
20 Someone in the High Police — probably Fouché himself , we know he 's obsessed with intrigue — sees it as an opportunity to introduce one of his agents into Vienna .
21 The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant .
22 Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors .
23 Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption .
24 Read , by someone in the Clerical Grade ?
25 More of them were the sons or grandsons of someone in the Christian ministry .
26 And they believe someone in the local community is hiding the killer .
27 Still nobody in the chemical industry put two and two together .
28 Nobody in the present cast is in the race , ’ wrote Gordon Gow , ‘ with the single exception of Walter Matthau who deadpans beautifully as the miser Vandergelder and even gets away with his preposterous volte-face in the telescoped conclusion . ’
29 The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves .
30 Nobody wanted to push the struggle any further ; nobody in the 1740s imagined that a fight to the death was at hand .
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