Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
| 2 | One day , I fear that a demonstration of the kind I faced in 1982 will go wrong and someone will get hurt . |
| 3 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 4 | All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me . |
| 5 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 6 | From here , that means a short cab ride , and I phone a mini-cab firm whose card I find in one of my pockets , the Ace Express Super Silver Service . |
| 7 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 8 | The most common suggestion for garam masala I find in authentic Indian cookery books usually suggests equal quantities of cinnamon , cardamom and clove , with or without the pepper , a perfect complement to the spices of the mixture that began the cooking . |
| 9 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 10 | You 're still the slim chick I knew in nineteen seventy four . |
| 11 | And at the beginning of the following term I wrote in huge letters on the front of my rough book ( regularly inspected by the housemistress ) , ‘ Exuberance is beauty ’ . |
| 12 | And it 's important for our staff to be aware of that , and to realize that we have got ta continue to give , those two clients I believe in particular , the best possible service we can provide . |
| 13 | the rise of capitalism in a country and the religion which predominates in that country . |
| 14 | The Polytechnic Touring Association which began in 1888 gave students of the London Polytechnic a chance to travel . |
| 15 | Bears , squirrels and badgers are some of the many animals which overwinter in this way . |
| 16 | Animals which live in open country , such as the African bush , tend to have their fovea elongated into a strip . |
| 17 | One of the problems that can develop through the feeding of wild animals is that of dependency , particularly in the case of those animals which live in urban areas where natural foraging opportunities are few and far between . |
| 18 | I have enclosed a simple card which explains in more detail how ORT works . |
| 19 | Comm. ) , ( but ) there is no obvious reason why the same approach should apply to the criminal law , particularly in view of the different policy considerations which apply in civil and criminal law . |
| 20 | Apart from the use of referenda , which are a regular feature of politics in the United States , Switzerland and some other countries , jury service , as an obligation which may in principle fall upon any citizen , is almost the sole vestige of direct citizen participation in law-making and administration which survives in modern democracies . |
| 21 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 22 | As the House will be aware , on 29 November , three child care officers formerly employed by Leicestershire county council were convicted on extremely serious charges of sexual assault and other acts of violence which occurred in three Leicestershire children 's homes between 1973 and 1986 . |
| 23 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 24 | Material is continually arriving deep within the mass of dead-looking rock , however , and the pressure of this imperceptibly forces up spines of solid lava which rise in jagged battlements along the crest of the dome . |
| 25 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that count , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which results in extra costs on the engine side are the customer 's liability . |
| 26 | This consists primarily of a 15-year mapping programme which began in 1990/91 . |
| 27 | The allegations state that he received money from the contract for the restoration of Milan 's Underground and for repairs to the dam in Valtellina which burst in 1987 with much loss of life . |
| 28 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 29 | But Clifford Barnett , the head of the anthropology department which voted in closed session last week to expel Mosher from his PhD candidature , denies that the department was subjected to any pressure . |
| 30 | Black communities around Pietermaritzburg have seen much of the fighting in a brutal turf war between the ANC and Inkatha supporters which flared in 1986 , deeply dividing black communities . |