Example sentences of "[adv] in [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long hall was caparisoned with cloths of Paris , costly arras , and ablaze with torches burning fiercely in their countless sconces along the walls . |
| 2 | A pair of keen black eyes burned fiercely in their sunken sockets , and as she met their sardonic gaze she drew back and would have fled , had not the servant been close behind her . |
| 3 | The Nationalists fared better in their foreign dealings . |
| 4 | A surface-facing mouth signifies the type of feeding that the Arrowana needs , taking all types of unsuspecting prey from below in its native waters . |
| 5 | Because the molluscs are such a large and varied group , with such an extensive fossil record , we shall consider them below in their various classes . |
| 6 | State officials are dependent upon capitalist economic development and growth if they are going to be able to pursue their interests and sustain themselves in office , so they are constrained to act in the interests of capital , although not necessarily in its optimal interests ( Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | The individual sounds of other species may not be so readily recognized purely from instinct , though it seems highly likely that the unborn infant , while still in the mother 's womb , especially in its latter days , would be able to hear such external sounds and be aware of its mother 's response . |
| 8 | The charismatic movement did in places cause division and provoke suspicion , especially in its early days , but it is my settled conviction , and my experience , that this need not be so , and that the Spirit of unity would have it otherwise . |
| 9 | It saw , especially in its early years , a great advance in freedom of expression on political and other questions in the Austrian provinces and the emergence of an embryonic public opinion there . |
| 10 | The new Britain may have looked like a waste land by 1945 , or at least a bomb site , especially in its inner cities . |
| 11 | The persistent characteristic of the Spanish professional class , especially in its lower ranges , is the necessity of double employment . |
| 12 | That contemporary homophobia , even or especially in its crudest forms , is not a residual superstition , can be seen in that initiating attack on Peter Tatchell . |
| 13 | Children often feel they are close to animals , and relate to them very well , feeling like them , especially in their bodily functions . |
| 14 | Sometimes these are such dedicated fighting machines , especially in their huge jaws ( in the case of ants , but " gunturrets " for chemical warfare in the case of termites ) , that they are incapable of feeding themselves and have to be fed by non-soldier workers . |
| 15 | We are saying at the liturgy we come into God 's presence , we speak with him , offer him our thanks and praise , open our hearts to him especially in our darkest moments and he speaks to us of his love and grace . |
| 16 | Following inadvertent groundings on the mud , which happened occasionally , especially in my early days of command , I would pick up my cap to find an insert in the badge reading " Bayly Dredging Co . " |
| 17 | A girl in a mackintosh and low-heeled pumps , pale stockings , and a short glossy bob was running across the dirt floor of the yard ; the hulks of cars were heaped behind her , the record of fatal crashes scored legibly in their twisted driveshafts , passenger doors stove in , and disembowelled interiors where plugs and levers hung from strings like fallen teeth on the ends of nerves . |
| 18 | But the director was all for it , too , and as Kenneth pointed out , we did n't wait between talking naturally in our private conversations . |
| 19 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 20 | He was bold enough in his public demonstrations of hatred for the RUC and Brit soldiers , prepared to sneer and insult openly , and had certainly been ‘ beaten by the bastards ’ more than once . |
| 21 | This is hard enough in our own lives but it is doubly hard in public work where it calls on people devoted to different ideals to work together in mutual acceptance , and that means not just tolerating one another but respecting and understanding what the other is talking about . |
| 22 | Alone in their deserted rooms the models are both victimised and glorious . |
| 23 | Whether or not he could hear much of what she said , she did not know , but her heart was saddened that he should be here alone in his last hours . |
| 24 | But he now hopes to assemble original crew members , perhaps in their original positions with other RNLI lads playing other roles in the rescue effected by the Sir James Knott . |
| 25 | On the question of registration of electors , clearly it is very important that if we now have less than nine weeks from this evening for those possibly four hundred thousand people to seek registration then the it is essential that the minister and the department er engage in a serious advertising campaign to ensure that people can exercise the rights that are due to them and I would like the minister perhaps in his later remarks , to expand on what , if any , measure the government intends to take to publicise the fact of E C voting rights to those four hundred thousand or so er European citizens of voting age resident in this country . |
| 26 | However , they differ greatly in their social scenarios . |
| 27 | Across England and Wales , schools differ greatly in their linguistic profiles . |
| 28 | When the quality took to watering at Margate they travelled overland in their gilded carriages , but their servants and baggage were the mainstay of the passenger-carrying sailing hoys plying the Thames in increasing numbers . |
| 29 | Methodism may not have been " puritan " in the challenging sense of the seventeenth century , but it was so in its behavioural attitudes . |
| 30 | The sixth-century bishop of Le Mans , Badegisel , who had been maior of the palace , did so in his own interests , seizing the property of others , including that of his relatives . |