Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aunts had sat half-veiled in the evening , talking in Arabic and French and sometimes in English for me , but I had n't listened . |
| 2 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 3 | These shared or duplicated responsibilities are unavoidable and often in fact are desirable because the process is one of mutual monitoring which usually improves reliability . |
| 4 | It is used for entry into a holding pattern from sector 2 and also in approach patterns . |
| 5 | If you need a full featured word processor — and while you might like the idea of drawing and charting do you really need them within your word processor — and have the hardware to support it , I think it is a strong competitor to Word for Windows 2 and currently in advance of any others . |
| 6 | This is not to be dogmatic about answers , but to encourage pupils to reflect on them , developing increasing knowledge and understanding of how religion is expressed , and learning how to make evaluation which is both personal and yet in touch with public enquiry . |
| 7 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 8 | Central government intervention into public health , sanitation and housing was cautious and piecemeal in comparison with Chadwick 's conception of a centralized supervisory network . |
| 9 | A bargain makes me feel threatened and seriously in need of urgent hospital treatment : depressed and unsure of myself . |
| 10 | Induction thus provides a powerful means of co-ordinating the behaviour of adjacent groups of cells both early and late in development . |
| 11 | The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another . |
| 12 | Whether it will be better or worse no-one can tell at the moment , but the hands on the reins of administration will be more varied , more democratic and more in tune with the times — at least that 's the theory for this huge volte in the face of what has gone before . |
| 13 | They 're all gauche and giggly in bed , by turns prudish and gushing , fidgety and frenetic one minute , in rigor mortis the next . |
| 14 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 15 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 16 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 17 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 18 | We will say more about user involvement in Section 2.8 and further in Section 6.4 . |
| 19 | I would like to express my thanks and appreciation for all the cards , letters and offers of help sent to wish David well when he was ill and then in sympathy when he died . |
| 20 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
| 21 | In a free-spending secret life , Brian Courtenay , former businessman , local councillor , Tory committee chairman and master of his masonic lodge , had got through £200,000 to £300,000 — leaving the woman who wed him as a virgin 38 years earlier , almost penniless and deep in debt . |
| 22 | As David watches events that can never take place again , such as the Woodbrook dance , and observes the cloaked distress of the family at their growing impecuniousness , he falls deeper and deeper in love with Phoebe , his Venus rising up through adolescence into womanhood . |
| 23 | She was ageless and even in age would , I knew , be careless . |
| 24 | The handwriting will be much too smooth and even in appearance , showing none of the alterations of thickness , pressure and overall individuality of an ordinary letter . |
| 25 | The days of the popularity of black and white etchings waned at the turn of this century : the demand was filled by photographic views , first in black and white and then in colour . |
| 26 | Justin Silvertown , UK economist at Daiwa said : ‘ The 1% rate cut is highly welcome and broadly in line with expectations . |
| 27 | The 900 group , originally the domain of Kawasaki with the Z900 and then the GPZ900R , introduced in 1984 and still in production , seems set to become the premier sports class . |
| 28 | He thought that this was ‘ kinder , more humane and more in keeping with informed medical opinion . ’ |
| 29 | It would not be feasible to continue with the military government being assailed by left and right in south Korea . |
| 30 | A more serious objection to Anderson 's account is that it assumes consistentalignment between left and right in politics , and ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ traditional ’ in intellectual life . |