Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 2 | Omar believed we would do better in this lowland country if we used camels rather than mules . |
| 3 | Make a more assured and selective use of a wider range of grammatical and lexical features , characteristic of different styles , that are appropriate for topic , purpose and audience , eg in impersonal writing choosing vocabulary that does not betray attitudes or feelings ; in poetic writing choosing vocabulary that conveys attitudes , responses or emotions . |
| 4 | Some , often but not necessarily in early adult life , behaved peculiarly and described visions ; they were said to have dementia praecox or , in more recent language , schizophrenia . |
| 5 | I would go further and accept that the armoury of common law defences , such as those which prevent recovery of money paid under a binding compromise or to avoid a threat of litigation , may be either inapposite or inadequate for the purpose ; because it is possible to envisage , especially in modern taxation law which tends to be excessively complex , circumstances in which some very substantial sum of money may be held to have been exacted ultra vires from a very large number of taxpayers . |
| 6 | The eventual pensions received by women who participated in these inter-war schemes would have reflected their low and unequal pay as well as conditions of service which typically required women to retire much earlier than men , especially in private sector employment . |
| 7 | In the majority white British culture , there are phases in people 's lives when shared accommodation does feature , especially in young adult life and in old age . |
| 8 | Sometimes there 's nothing at all , especially in good summer weather . |
| 9 | Assuming they do , then the following month the sandstorms begin , when it is very difficult to fight , especially in chemical warfare kit . |
| 10 | It looks as though there had been a Phoenician settlement on the island which introduced this strain ; and though in pottery a true Geometric style supervenes , the eastern tradition seems to linger on , especially in fine gold work , to link up with the orientalising phase proper . |
| 11 | The rest of the economy remains in deep trouble , with the government hesitant to introduce painful reform , especially in subsidised state industry . |
| 12 | The advantage is that the kite itself is free of the high frequency vibrations which occur naturally in all kite flying lines ; but a fast shutter speed takes care of this problem in most instances . |
| 13 | ‘ They asked me if there was anything worn under the kilt and I told them no , it was all in good working order , ’ remarked Lewis drily . |
| 14 | Do you think that perhaps in due course publishing will move into an area in which you would n't actually ever print anything , you would actually put it into a machine ? |
| 15 | Do you think that perhaps in due course publishing will move into an area in which you would n't ever actually print anything , you would actually put it into a machine . |
| 16 | So in that way Mother bade farewell to Low Birk Hatt . |
| 17 | So in 1989 petrol power gave way to a 1.8-litre diesel Escort , which has now been replaced by the latest version . |
| 18 | The mechanisation of agriculture and industry is cutting work opportunities , so in many cases living standards are declining . |
| 19 | I would also hold that he was not obliged to do so in discretionary life sentence cases . |
| 20 | So in this case space is infinite . |
| 21 | Gas bubbles in any liquid tend to rise to the surface , so in any basalt lava flow , it is only the top part which is likely to have a honeycomb texture . |
| 22 | So in three dimensions inversion turns an infinite plane into a finite sphere in a one-to-one mapping of every point . |
| 23 | So in ten years time you would have a maturity of X number of pounds |
| 24 | Except that she 's got to clock in in five minutes time . |
| 25 | On the way up to the col from Luz you come first to the small resort and spa of Barèges , one street wide and squeezed tightly in in true spa style between the mountains to the south and the river to the north . |
| 26 | Despite her criticism of their dancing they knew she cared for them and always stepped in in any family crisis : |
| 27 | Scattering emanates from these centres , created by local density fluctuations , which produce changes in in any volume element . |
| 28 | Mean basal secretory volume was less in old subjects overall ( 71 ( 7 ) ml ; p<0.01 ) , and in old subjects without atrophy ( 66 ( 8 ) ml ; p<0.02 ) than in young subjects ( 110 ( 14 ) ml ) . |
| 29 | Yet , apart from these and a couple of stagings of The Tempest , choreographers have tended to present Shakespeare only in one act form , at best condensing the great poetic dramas into intense and intimate character studies at worst , turning them into a slide show of cliched vignettes . |
| 30 | The school library is a major part of the information environment in the school and the school librarian , in her/his neutral position , can ensure that Prestel is used across the curriculum and not only in one subject area . |