Example sentences of "[adv] in a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 2 | ‘ I happened to be in the area and Lucasta Redburn 's not a common name , especially in a town the size of Plumford . ’ |
| 3 | So in a way the basic error underlying classical foundationalism is an error in the theory of meaning . |
| 4 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 5 | So in a sense the reptile dominance is still with us , transmuted by time and evolution . |
| 6 | It 's thought , in fact , that they represent areas where ‘ midocean ’ ridges once formed below the continents , in the late stages of continental rifting , but before an ocean proper had opened ( cf. chapter one ) , so in a sense the kind of volcanic activity that is typical of oceanic areas in fact took place on dry land . |
| 7 | This causes an immediate reduction in anxiety so in a sense the person is rewarded for running away . |
| 8 | I 've got one friend who has written down in a diary every person he 's ever re arrested , I do n't do that , I just , I , I ca n't be bothered to write it all down . |
| 9 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 10 | Thus in a beehive the worker bees , depending on their age , will either feed the young , stand guard and repel strangers , forage for food or ventilate the hive by beating their wings . |
| 11 | Now normally in an adult the rate of synthesis and breakdown of proteins is equal . |
| 12 | One of those trees had blown over in a storm a few years later ; the other survived as a diseased and sterile relic . |
| 13 | We ca n't organise the tour to stop off in a hotel every night yet . ’ |
| 14 | THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ . |
| 15 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 16 | Once in a while an ‘ audio extra ’ creates itself . |
| 17 | Every once in a while an album captures the public 's imagination in a big way . |
| 18 | Once in a while the Budget comes up with something that appeals to most people . |
| 19 | Rawnsley is cheeky about Kinnock , Major and poor Ashdown , while David McKie writes , in a magisterial preface , ‘ This is still in a sense a watershed election . ’ |
| 20 | It is important to realise though , that antiquarian as Tolkien 's motives often were , and ‘ pre-scientific ’ as the opinions of Galadriel and Solomon seem , what Tolkien was writing about is still in a way a live issue . |
| 21 | Most of the Cubists were united in declaring that theirs was an art of realism , and in so far as Cubism was concerned with reinterpreting the external world in a detached , objective way it was also in a sense a classical art . |
| 22 | They provided my family and I with currency exchange at competitive rates , advice on aeroplane repairs , free landing and hangarage , free overnight accommodation — and even organised on-the-spot Customs clearance when a friend came to pick us up in a twin the following morning . |
| 23 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 24 | I wanner go up in a pile a smoke an' flames an' eye shadder an' levver shoes an' dancin' an' all that I 'll go like them girls in the magazines Sharon an' you ai n't goin' ter stop me . |
| 25 | Sometimes he would lay out in a row the seven or eight letters from the seven or eight men who he would most like to meet and talk to when he got to heaven . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend may like to know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State today set out in a speech the importance of improving and strengthening competition in a range of postal services . |
| 27 | She was now in a state every time she looked at Alain . |
| 28 | All I heard was that you 'd come back in a taxi the worse for wear . |
| 29 | Even in a car the wipers do not clear the windscreen in torrential rain . |
| 30 | Lisa hesitated for a moment , then in a flash the solution came to her . |