Example sentences of "[adj] in [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parody can sometimes get to the heart of the matter in a way that imitation can not , and George Birmingham 's King Tommy is genuinely Ruritanian in its quirky way . |
| 2 | Their poison has the same origin as that of the snakes — modified saliva — but the animals are much more primitive in their wounding mechanism . |
| 3 | By now almost wholly French in his artistic outlook , in August 1824 he was as amazed as his French contemporaries when Constable 's Hay Wain and Hampstead Heath were exhibited at the famous Salon Anglais . |
| 4 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 5 | ‘ The stock market has recognised this in its affirmative response to the rights issue and the share price now stands at 53p against the 38p that would have resulted if the market had simply absorbed the rights issue and stood still . ’ |
| 6 | The Government has acknowledged this in its White Paper on Financial Services : |
| 7 | Why Decca missed this in her long partnership with Solti remains a mystery . |
| 8 | She would never have thought that she could feel like this in her whole life . |
| 9 | All young players must accept periods like this in their early days . |
| 10 | The dreams tell us this in their miserable iteration . |
| 11 | Commenting on Attorney General William Barr 's refusal in August to appoint a special prosecutor [ see p. 39044 ] , Shoob said that this in itself raised concerns " about the government 's impartiality in handling this case " . |
| 12 | When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life . |
| 13 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 14 | I have never felt as strong as this in my whole life . ’ |
| 15 | We shall refer to this in our final section . |
| 16 | Vincent took this in his masochistic stride . |
| 17 | He said this in his firm business voice , not his usually listless home voice , and she accepted his direction as readily as one of his mechanics would have done . |
| 18 | Joe Darby explains the strategy for achieving this in his Chief Executive 's review . |
| 19 | John Entwistle of the Who has one like this in his front room and Elton John is known to be a collector . |
| 20 | It 's in a paper I did n't put on the reading list because most of it is not relevant , it 's called Is Democracy Special ? and this in his collective papers . |
| 21 | In his Life Together Bonhoeffer told how he tried this in his experimental community before World War II . |
| 22 | Crystal ( 1979 ) demonstrates this in his valuable analysis of a piece of personal reminiscence by a 9 year old . |
| 23 | So you get this in your hot water cylinder , we can get it in boilers , erm you get it in hot water pipes and it happens a lot in in hard water areas , Scale will dissolve in the acid in the bubbles of Twelve point seven . |
| 24 | You can not do this in your present tank , as the Discus will suffer . |
| 25 | You 'd never be able to mount a display like this in your back garden . |
| 26 | Thus , the following pair of sentences The man was eager to please and The man was easy to please are alike in their surface structure but are different in their deep structure . |
| 27 | However , road pricing is rapidly claiming widespread support — from organisations as different in their political perspectives as the Institute of Directors and the new Institute for Public Policy Research . |
| 28 | They may prefer to believe themselves to be special and different in their primary addictions rather than part of a wider group of sufferers from addictive disease . |
| 29 | Not only can marked variation in embryonic development be observed even within litters but , during such a dynamic phase of morphogenetic change , embryos only a few hours apart in age may be significantly different in their developmental state . |
| 30 | For example , the Chinese character for happiness ( Fu ) is pronounced exactly like the character for bat ; the characters for " stag " and " emolument " ( or profit from employment ) , although totally different in their written form , sound the same when spoken aloud . |