Example sentences of "[adj] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wonder if we 're handling this in the right way , ’ he said cautiously . |
| 2 | In more secluded areas where we consider a car to be essential , we include this in the overall holiday price . |
| 3 | To convert this into a form which will allow us to express this in the correct site fraction form we can add and subtract on the r.h.s. of equation ( 8.19 ) to give |
| 4 | all this in the private sector would 've |
| 5 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 6 | The inner city is now chic , and this in the Low Street in North Shields . |
| 7 | Faith as I see it — by a Layman ’ ; and although there was first a certain amount of debate about what the nature and title of the broadcasts should be , Lewis began to do this in the late summer of 1941 , taking the train from Oxford to London every Wednesday evening , and broadcasting from 7.45 to 8.00 p.m . |
| 8 | The feeble achievements of the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ) and the Group of 77 confirm this in the political sphere . |
| 9 | Harold Fox has shown this in the vast upland parish of Hartland , where many farms are the remains of former hamlets , while other hamlets have disappeared completely . |
| 10 | Why do we have this fighting this in the front room |
| 11 | The eminent French sociologist Raymond Aron ( 1968 ) explained this in the following way : |
| 12 | We classify this in the following way . |
| 13 | We can understand this in the following way : What we think of as " empty " space can not be completely empty because that would mean that all the fields , such as the gravitational and electromagnetic fields , would have to be exactly zero . |
| 14 | One can picture this in the following way . |
| 15 | Durkheim put this in the following way : |
| 16 | Alternatively , the nominalization can follow a ‘ weak ’ subject such as This in the following example ( from Johns , 1991 ) : |
| 17 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 18 | We see this in the increasing influence of the new Ecology Movement , in the power of the Gaia theory , in the efforts of established religions to come to terms with their part in dealing with these issues ; and much more humbly , but much more universally , we see it in the increased attention that so many of us are now paying to the ways we celebrate the beauty and diversity of life on Earth . |
| 19 | " Drop this in the soiled linen , will you . " |
| 20 | We might imagine that access to housing would be equal for men and women , since they most often share this in the marital home . |
| 21 | The management and workers of those domestic firms which join the TCC may well benefit from this in the long run , as well as the foreign-controlled sector . |
| 22 | The figures for males and females are also consistent with our findings for ( a ) and ( Ε ) : females lead in the move away from traditional vernacular forms , and this in the long term tends to reduce allophony and simplify alternations . |
| 23 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 24 | Sonnet 13 begins : Recast this in the second-person singular and we have : ‘ O that thou werst thyself , but love thou art/No longer thine than thou thyself here livest . ’ |
| 25 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 26 | It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work . |
| 27 | It often surprises me still ( though I suppose it should n't ) how ideas bear fruit which come like this in the early morning , when we sit quietly and catch the unspoken whispers inside our hearts and minds . |
| 28 | There is a snatch of this in the Roman Mass for Easter Day which talks in terms of ‘ O felix culpa ’ — ‘ O blessed sin which wrought man 's redemption ’ . |
| 29 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 30 | You 'll also find this in The Ideal Home Design Sourcebook by Barbara Chandler . |