Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in complete contrast to Holden who , although he criticises other people 's behaviour , does not describe them as individuals ; consequently in ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ , there is no serious development of any character except the central figure , whereas in ‘ Villette ’ , several characters are developed . |
| 2 | He had already spent months like this in one sort of mental prison and here he was again in another . |
| 3 | Political sociologists generally acknowledge that political science has a long , honourable and scholarly tradition of studying the apparatus of government and the state but worry about its tendency to consider this in relative isolation from its wider social context . |
| 4 | Over time we absorb them as our own and the culture shock retreats as we internalize the values and beliefs ( I discuss this in some detail in Chapter 6 ) . |
| 5 | One common local belief about Belfast English is that upper-middle-class people tend to front-raise /a/ ( as in bat ) towards the conservative RP value : [ ae ] ( but we found little sign of this in any part of our research ) . |
| 6 | So he had thankfully devoured his second breakfast , simply pleased that his father was being so attentive to him and not connecting this in any way with his own outburst of the night before . |
| 7 | Could I relate this in any way to the picture on my living-room wall ? |
| 8 | We discuss this in more detail in our concluding chapter . |
| 9 | We have discussed this in more detail in Chapter Three where we saw how the parameters of this debate as set out in these campaigns were seized upon by the Tory Party with little or no response from the Labour Party who seemed unable to cope with the authoritarian drift . |
| 10 | Bill Wyman was no different in that respect to any other man of his age . |
| 11 | And just to remind you what I was saying , if you 've just switched on , what I was just confirming with Colin er earlier , is that erm it 's slightly different in this competition to what we 've been accustomed to in the football league er this and last season , in as far as it 's not goals scored that 's important when you have the same number of points , it is goal difference . |
| 12 | Local authorities are no different in this respect from other large concerns , whether public or private , who must decide whether to provide all the components of their activities within their own organisations or to obtain some from outside suppliers . |
| 13 | Local government is different in this respect from central government where ministers derive their constitutional authority from the Crown and their political power from control of the majority of the House of Commons . |
| 14 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 15 | In fact , because only half an inch was involved it was impossible to see from the outside of my right shoe that it was different in any way from my left . |
| 16 | Aristotle and his Athenian contemporaries were well aware that some barbarians were very different in physical appearance from themselves . |
| 17 | The majority in other occult areas are no different in outward appearance from the normal person in the street . |
| 18 | Rejected by the priesthood , he found himself unfitted in some way for normal life . |
| 19 | No doubt it is open to the objection that it presupposes the very point in issue , namely the law which is to be applied , but such a solution seems just as sensible in this context as the rule that the law governing the validity of a contract is determined by the law which would govern the contract if one assumed it to be valid . |
| 20 | It was getting more claustrophobic in that house by the day . |
| 21 | If anything went wrong in any part of the world he always said " That 's because you got rid of the little man " . |
| 22 | A quietly cultivated , top-of-the-head English don , incurably in the grip of the Oxford Disease — that tragic malady which deludes its victims into believing they can never be wrong in any matter of knowledge or opinion . |
| 23 | When things went wrong in this kind of game , they went very wrong . |
| 24 | Lord Meston submits that the judge was wrong in this interpretation of the effect of article 3 of the Convention which must be considered in the context of article 5 . |
| 25 | Over the span of the years their young faces ( most of them were in their very early twenties ) , alert and clean-shaven in sharp contrast to the beards of the poilus and the fierce , straggly mustachios of their officers , seem to us like the faces of the future . |
| 26 | Each Rolex watch is a celebration of skilled craftsmanship , a creation combining the foremost in technical knowledge with a design that is unparalleled for style and strength . |
| 27 | ‘ Be aware ’ in morals is a warning , not only against sheer insensibility — to be aware and responsive in some degree from other viewpoints is in any case a practical necessity of living in society — but against the distortions and disproportions of awareness , including those demanded by one 's society . |
| 28 | The cupola turned out to be a kind of gigantic cauldron erected high in one corner of the building where she had earlier noticed what looked like volcanic lava trickling downwards . |
| 29 | Dietary change is a central component of this process , and there is a mass of evidence to support the role of a diet high in saturated fat in atherogenesis . |
| 30 | When the level of carbon dioxide breathed out by the bees gets high in some part of the nest , groups of several hundred workers start vigorously fanning with their wings , so circulating the air around the combs and levelling out any imbalances . |