Example sentences of "[adv] in [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love you I love you while the lead guitar giggles and the drummer 's tongue lies wetly in his opened mouth . |
| 2 | If I can have a game of polo I feel five hundred times better in my mental outlook . |
| 3 | ’ If I have a game of polo I feel five hundred times better in my mental outlook . ’ |
| 4 | ’ ’ I charge you , therefore , for the present abjure all fighting but that is forced upon you , when no man can blame if you do valiantly in your own defence . |
| 5 | The three cottages lay innocently below in their little orchard of olives . |
| 6 | The printing history of The Fairy Queen is described below in our bibliographical addendum , so as not to interrupt the story here with a page of rather convoluted formulae . |
| 7 | Read the extract below in your usual way : The Industrial Revolution did more than free man from economic dependence on relatively static methods of production ; it increased the total amount of food and goods available to every individual . |
| 8 | In each of these forms , the Word is the Word insofar and only insofar as God really expresses and communicates himself through it ; and the special task of Christian dogmatics is to refer the present proclamation of Jesus Christ back to its original ground in God himself in order to clear away distortions and misrepresentations so that the Word itself can be heard afresh in its own integrity . |
| 9 | As already mentioned , after puberty a girl does not stay long in her natal home . |
| 10 | Such a purchaser would , in effect , buy a firm that he did not want to own for long in its present shape . |
| 11 | The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room . |
| 12 | Others gain an income from a team of supporters not necessarily in their new church . |
| 13 | But in spite of the fact that I am more attentive to my own affairs than to yours , the disproportion of awareness is not necessarily in my own favour . |
| 14 | Frank Jacques quoted the Harvey Memorial Lecture extensively and approvingly in his 1954–55 District Annual Report . |
| 15 | Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | Rather smaller and darker than Swift and Pallid Swift , differing especially in its dark throat and faster flight . |
| 17 | It is easy to find in the political writing of the eighteenth century , and especially in its vast pamphlet literature , frequent rejection of the idea of the balance of power . |
| 18 | In all societies , then , we can locate evidence of the real experiences and aspirations of different social subgroups by the level and way their culture is expressed , especially in its concrete form in the arts . |
| 19 | Primary involvement , however , defined as lymphoma developing in the oesophageal wall itself , seems to be exceptionally rare , especially in its isolated form : we have been able to identify only six cases in which patients presented with oesophageal tumour as the only manifestation of lymphoma ( five Hodgkin 's disease , one non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma ) . |
| 20 | Primary involvement , defined as lymphoma developing in the oesophageal wall itself , is rare , especially in its isolated form when it is the only focus of the disease . |
| 21 | Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion . |
| 22 | In most places of the world New Zealanders are known as Kiwis , yet very few New Zealanders have actually seen a kiwi , especially in its natural habitat of the forest floor . ’ |
| 23 | DeFries and David were very much alike , especially in their emotional complexion , both very cold — or maybe that 's the wrong word — but neither was very expressive emotionally . |
| 24 | Our interest is not simply in any one department of social life but rather in all these in a community , and especially in their mutual interdependence as parts of a whole . |
| 25 | No one should be subjected to this sort of ordeal , especially in their own home . |
| 26 | But in the later scenes with Carlos , and especially in his great aria after he has been mortally wounded , he recovered his true form . |
| 27 | Dennis Hopper fared no better with his masterpiece , The Last Movie , and the outcome , especially in his personal life , would hold some interesting developments for Nicholson . |
| 28 | Ackroyd quotes him ; but apart from the fact that Eliot , especially in his distressed state , was unlikely to have used those words of Vivien , there is no record of his having sent such a telegram . |
| 29 | It was especially in his original approach to vegetables and sauces that de Pomiane provoked the criticism of hidebound French professional chefs . |
| 30 | The average sentence lengths of the two passages are fifty-seven words for Conrad , and only twenty for Lawrence & ) ; in Conrad the ratio of independent clauses to dependent clauses is 1:2.8 , and in Lawrence 1:1 ( 46 ) Lawrence , then uses much simpler sentences than Conrad , especially in his third paragraph . |