Example sentences of "[adv] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no daylight at all penetrating to the interior of the foundry , it looked more hellish than ever , its furnaces glowing fiercely in the smoky gloom . |
| 2 | The announcement was greeted sceptically in the National Assembly and by the press , which claimed that the surplus was illusory as the government trade figures were distorted by smuggling , variable exchange rates , barter deals and restrictions on imports . |
| 3 | This bugles-and-banners stridency , drowning out the elegant salon music of pre-war Europe 's Indian summer , culminated inexorably in the Great War and the subsequent rise of Fascist dictatorships . |
| 4 | General Lee had entered Maryland with 50,000 men , but the Brigade that was skirmishing its way towards Harper 's Ferry had left nothing behind but blackened camp-fires and crushed grasses , while the advance line of MacArthur 's Guard moved warily upstream in the late evening in pursuit . |
| 5 | The Tyne was heavily polluted , from about Prudhoe down to the sea , but after rain , salmon swam upstream in the clean water on top of the flood . |
| 6 | The infectivity of these particles was expected since they incorporate both the antibody-envelope fusion protein and unmodified envelope protein which is also expressed abundantly in the retroviral packaging cell line . |
| 7 | regardless in the other direction . |
| 8 | He stood straighter in the water , his broad chest glistening wetly in the multicoloured light . |
| 9 | fixations might do better in the long run by holding out until you 've got enough cash to buy the real thing . |
| 10 | They argue , on pragmatic grounds , that judges must sometimes act as if people had legal rights , because acting that way will serve society better in the long run . |
| 11 | Is the community so anxious that its judges not behave as pragmatists that this " noble lie " will help him serve its true interests better in the long run ? |
| 12 | The resale potential of other Anatolian items is less clear , but it seems probable that the finer quality Dobags and the more tribal items , whether village or nomadic , will fare better in the long term than " furnishing " or " decorative " rugs . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman 's contribution stood better in the traditional approach of the House in the past two decades to issues relating to consumer affairs . |
| 14 | So a female who can persuade two males that they each have a stake in the brood will do better in the evolutionary struggle . |
| 15 | Indeed the lasting effect of this period is seen better in the political pressure groups — the Gay and Women 's Liberation movements — which it spawned than in the actual pop music of the time . |
| 16 | Prince Charlie can go a lot better in the tartan game than most for he can , officially , wear no fewer than 11 different tartans . |
| 17 | Evidence is most abundant for specialists involved in ceramics and metal-working , because it survives better in the archaeological record . |
| 18 | Harper had told the court he twice briefly lit tufts of hay in order to see better in the darkened barn . |
| 19 | Harper , no relation to the girls , of Homecroft Drive , Uckington , admitted he had twice briefly lit tufts of hay to see better in the darkened barn . |
| 20 | Lastly in the southern suburb several infant burials were found alongside the timber predecessor of the stone barn ( p. 84 ) . |
| 21 | Lydia woke suddenly in the tangible blackness that was moonless country night . |
| 22 | A cricket chirruped suddenly in the tall grass by his ear . |
| 23 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 24 | Not only does the house contain one of the most interesting ‘ collections of collections ’ , but it is surrounded by the first pleasure garden to be run entirely organically in the National Trust . |
| 25 | In the USA , for example , where most of the research is done , without central funding , at individual libraries and even by MSc and PhD degree students , many valuable projects have been carried out ( eg in the comparative testing of different teaching techniques ) . |
| 26 | Although such numbers are obviously justified by the particular circumstances of Lewis and Harris , eg in the developing world they would be regarded as lavish for a much larger population . |
| 27 | Standing thoughtfully in the tiny kitchen , she suddenly turned and went out again . |
| 28 | 1,100ft below in the Ryvoan Pass you can see the Ryvoan bothy . |
| 29 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 30 | Way below in the foxgloved undergrowth a dry twig snapped , sharply . |