Example sentences of "[adj] in [pos pn] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in its turn provoked similar claims from several of the Italian princes , so that " before long Munster swarmed with Excellencies " . |
| 2 | This in its turn requires that the countries concerned make exploration attractive to the oil companies . |
| 3 | This in its turn adjoined the stables and the barn . |
| 4 | And Tan 's music surely reflects this in its yearning to reveal an inner voice , its east/west sound world , and its sense of theatre . |
| 5 | and the boy would next morning would pass on the outside of the gate offering a reward of five pounds to anyone who would in other words five pounds for Oliver Twist I never in for this in my life said the in the white , white coat as he locked the gate and he went to the next morning . |
| 6 | Then five minutes afterwards they come and put this in your mouth suck this |
| 7 | Mr Allen said the union leaders would leave no stone unturned in their efforts to save the Leyland-DAF plants at Glasgow , Birmingham , Leyland , Chorley and Thame . |
| 8 | Mr Allen said the union leaders would leave no stone unturned in their efforts to save the Leyland-DAF plants at Glasgow , Birmingham , Leyland , Chorley and Thame . |
| 9 | County Board officials are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to ensure that everything possible is done to facilitate the preparations for the big game . |
| 10 | The Court held , however , that the phrase ‘ in accordance with law ’ means that the law ‘ must be sufficiently clear in its terms to give citizens an adequate indication as to the circumstances in which and the conditions on which public authorities are empowered to resort to this secret and potentially dangerous interference with the right to respect for private life and correspondence . |
| 11 | Already prone in his diaries to use the superlative it was indeed somewhat of a problem in trying to entice people to see the beauties of the Lake District , not to use repeatedly such expressions as ‘ the grandest view of all ’ , ‘ one of the finest assemblages in England ’ , over and over again . |
| 12 | Some of these , such as Charles Worsley who controlled the north-west of the country , paid special attention to their moral duties and were untiring in their efforts to close down brothels , gaming-houses , and unlicensed ale-houses , and to prevent a whole range of popular recreations , including horse-racing , cock-fighting , and bear-baiting . |
| 13 | But the characters played by Leslie Banks in The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , or Robert Donat in The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) , are archetypically English in their capacity to muddle through , triumphing over the dark forces ranged against them by their flexibility of mind . |
| 14 | She merely revealed herself for what she was : a cloistered innocent , lacking the fashionable touch , too earnest by half in her endeavours to persuade a jaded world that she knew best . |
| 15 | How easy to talk to he 'd been , generous in his desire to tell her what she wanted to know . |
| 16 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , and Dr Michael Stroud , 32 , hope to reach the Pole on January 12 in their attempt to cross the Antarctic on foot . |
| 17 | There was nothing merely theoretical in his duty to preserve these rights . |
| 18 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 19 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 20 | ‘ Sky are already interested in our plan to turn pool away from the snooker image and into a slick , fast presentation . |
| 21 | The works of his so-called ‘ pink ’ and ‘ blue ’ periods were being bought by important collectors , and the fact that an established dealer like Vollard was interested in his work gave him additional prestige . |
| 22 | The novels of writers who are almost forgotten but who were popular in their day have also been particularly useful . |
| 23 | Ridiculously , a song that had been popular in her childhood flooded her mind . |
| 24 | Bush was careful in his proposals to avoid trespassing on traditional local and state responsibilities for education , assigning , for instance , a panel of administration officials and governors to develop the national tests . |
| 25 | Yeah See er John 's a bit too , well he 's a bit oldish or old in his ways to have the responsibility of youngsters . |
| 26 | It is not acceptable in our society to start smelling each other closely or to feel each other , except in approved salutations . |
| 27 | In the same way , human beings differ from one another in their ability to handle stress and the level at which they can cope comfortably . |
| 28 | Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence . |
| 29 | The females move down from the cliffs , across the shingle to the breakers , scrambling over one another in their anxiety to get to the water . |
| 30 | I 'm usually too absorbed in my work to spend much time looking at the other students . ’ |