Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come home late the previous evening from a tedious conference to find Sylvie in a strangely seductive mood , a champagne bottle at the ready , her favourite music pulsing through the house . |
| 2 | After lunching with the architect Mr. Webster , the family heard the Messiah in the Parish Church , ‘ the recitative ‘ Comfort ye ’ executed by Braham in a very superior state . ’ |
| 3 | Magee College is set on a hillside overlooking the River Foyle in a mainly residential quarter to the north of the old walled city of Londonderry , the second city of Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | Magee College is set on a hillside overlooking the River Foyle in a mainly residential quarter to the north of the old walled city of Londonderry , the second city of Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | in particular by Harold Lasswell in its application to the United States and by J.H. Meisel in a more general sense . |
| 6 | ‘ Both her parents died a couple of years back , ’ said Mrs Molesworth in an aside to Betty . |
| 7 | Bruno 's promoter , Micky Duff , urging Lewis to cash in on his first defence with a summer clash at Wembley stadium , said : ‘ That kind of money puts Frank in a very solid position . |
| 8 | For though Henry I had left England in a very confused state because he had only a daughter to inherit his title , Henry II 's problem was quite the reverse . |
| 9 | An Ian McEwan novel adapted by Harold Pinter and shot by Paul Schrader in a very Orientalised Venice , mannered Anglo angst meets muscular American attitude on the edge of the Western World . |
| 10 | CHARLES DARWIN in an uncharacteristically generous donation to scientists of later generations , left an unsolved problem . |
| 11 | What lovely skill that was by Thomson in a very tight situation although in the end he 's given it away . |
| 12 | The infra-structure was encouraged with the development of railways , ports and roads : the preoccupation with railway construction reflected military concern and , as Bruce Cumings has remarked , helped to put Korea in a far more favourable situation vis-à-vis other developing countries in 1945 . |
| 13 | We toured Scotland in a bitterly cold spring . |
| 14 | The remaining two discs in my ‘ Aspects ’ batch are both based on the musical theatre : ‘ Broadway Favourites ! ( ) , features the Winnipeg SO under Erich Kunzel in a very well played selection of numbers from My Fair Lady , Lady Be Good , Annie Get Your Gun , The Fantasticks , Man of La Mancha , Guys and Dolls , Cats and a suite of waltzes based on the music of Richard Rodgers . |
| 15 | ‘ Leavis demands moral earnestness : I prefer morality , ’ he once told Kingsley Amis in a characteristically Johnsonian antithesis , adding that he would sooner live among people who did not cheat at cards than among the sort who are earnest about not cheating . |
| 16 | Tommy had been fitted out by Count Albert Casimir in a very handsome crimson silk suit with a jacket laced hussar fashion , with gold . |
| 17 | This can be done successfully , but requires a tank large enough to provide open habitat for the other fish ( as well as the rocks for the Mbuna ) and that the Mbuna do not outnumber the others — Mbuna are far more boisterous and a small number of Aulonacaras in a predominantly Mbuna tank tend to be scared all the time , even though rarely actually attacked . |
| 18 | Nicky McCormack ( 2 ) , Jonathan Giles , Len McDonnell and Dessie Monaghan got the scores for Brugha in a very scrappy game . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you thought what the Metropolitan will say ? ’ said Georgiades in an aside as he hurried past . |
| 20 | The cause of Artegall 's inability to subdue Ireland in a completely satisfactory way is the result of actions proceeding from the civilised centre , not from those of the Faerie Queene 's opponents . |
| 21 | Mr Morrison said yesterday the group was in Ireland in a purely personal capacity , but would be reporting its findings to public and private officials on its return to the United States . |
| 22 | But Wark warned that Alex Ferguson must release the exciting talents of Ryan Giggs in a more advanced attacking role . |
| 23 | ‘ Who 's your coach ? ’ asked Phil in a rather persistent manner . |
| 24 | The relation between literature in general and individual texts is seen by Barthes in a rather different way from that implied by poetics . |
| 25 | All of which could put the thought of buying an ordinary used BMW in a very different light . |
| 26 | For they will be playing on a course designed by the great Jack Nicklaus in a stunningly beautiful setting . |
| 27 | After Munich in a very short year we were at war , and by all accounts it was a very different manner of acceptance of war than we are told of the 1914 war . |
| 28 | And here he was not many hours later sitting with Marcus Felstead in a relatively quiet comer of the clubhouse , twisting the guts out of him , though Marcus did not know it yet . |
| 29 | There therefore grew up a tendency to ignore the whys and wherefores and to regard the tensile and other strengths as innate properties with which the material happened to have been endowed by Providence in a rather arbitrary way . |
| 30 | There are strong indications — not least from Fischer in an aside to the Belgrade audience at the end of the match — that his comeback will continue . |