Example sentences of "[adv] in a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was trying to pick her up , of course , but any Wren new to the flotilla must expect to be fair game , she acknowledged , especially in a base so isolated , where women were outnumbered by fifty to one . |
| 2 | But he could be the victim of tactical voting , especially in a constituency where there were many complaints about the poll tax . |
| 3 | Notes on a topic by themselves are only of minor value unless they are backed up by wider statements , especially in a subject where there are controversies and differences of opinion . |
| 4 | ‘ Especially in a dress as sexy as that ! ’ |
| 5 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 6 | It takes a lot of doing you know , to grow some good flowers , some good fruit , some good vegetables , especially in a year when water 's been so short . |
| 7 | That problem — almost the reverse one — is why individual organisms exist at all , especially in a form so large and coherently purposeful as to mislead biologists into turning the truth upside down . |
| 8 | Shortly afterwards we returned to English prep schools , where I quickly had my French beaten out of me in French grammar classes , and where Lorne responded by continuing to be unable to talk or , rather , to speak in any known language , for he would hold forth volubly in a tongue uniquely his own . |
| 9 | The system worked well enough in a society where ‘ poor ’ meant eighty per cent of the population and harshness was common . |
| 10 | But what would happen to Twoflower , all alone in a city where even the cockroaches had an unerring instinct for gold ? |
| 11 | It seemed a dark mysterious sort of profession , perhaps in a way not quite manly , or not manly in the way she was used to . |
| 12 | And survey manager is above supervisor so in a way then |
| 13 | Those who now come to read Russian at Nottingham do so in a world much changed from that when I entered the Department twenty years ago . |
| 14 | It is the schools , and their teachers , who have had to shoulder this burden , increasingly so in a climate where opportunities are diminished and our pupils rightly feel let down , frustrated and alienated from a society that appears insensitive to their plight . |
| 15 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 16 | Canvassing on his behalf appears to have indicated , however , that many MPs would remain loyal to the Prime Minister in a first ballot , switching only in a second when , of course , there might be additional candidates . |
| 17 | In order to protect the privacy of those whose lives are recorded , the material may be kept confidential for some years , or may be available only in a form where individuals can not be identified . |
| 18 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 19 | It is particularly fitting that Underwood should have chosen to step down in a year when the president of the Rugby Football Union is Peter Yarranton , himself a former England player and RAF pilot , who will be at today 's game . |
| 20 | Shall we have a sit down in a minute then ? |
| 21 | And er we had a wooden shed it blew down in a gale so my Nana , she bought us a shed |
| 22 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 23 | Then they all sat down in a fashion so orderly that the files they formed were almost identical and equidistant . |
| 24 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 25 | Dr Neil sat her down in a chair opposite to his , and drew out the permanently set-up board on which she had frequently seen him working out problems . |
| 26 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 27 | They moved together in a dance as old as time until finally Travis slid between her parted thighs , hands going to her hips to hold her tightly against him and feel his desire . |
| 28 | The legates were first received by Archbishop Jaenberht at Canterbury , from whence they journeyed to the court of Offa , who received them most favourably , and Offa , together with Cynewulf , king of the West Saxons , came together in a council where papal letters directing attention to the need for reform in the Anglo-Saxon Church were consulted and promises of reform made . |
| 29 | Initial attempts at moving together in a team often cause frustration and irritation . |
| 30 | In recent years , photographs of newcomers to the profession have been put together in a volume expressly produced for that purpose , by Spotlight . |