Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This room might exist in your house or flat or only in your imagination . |
| 2 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 3 | Lately this town there 's more layabouts in this town and some and anywhere in Lancashire you do n't , they 're not Lancashire people , oh they 're homeless and they live in , in boarding houses at the expense of er the tax payers |
| 4 | Through informal contacts in 1971 and 1972 and formally in 1972 agreement was reached in principle to amalgamate . |
| 5 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The curtains were drawn but they were thin and unlined and even in the subdued light he could see that the room was spectacularly untidy . |
| 8 | Manucci , who was employed in Dara Shukoh 's artillery , portrays his patron as a flawed hero , brave and generous but constantly in danger of being outwitted by his wily opponents : |
| 9 | Major demonstrations , not only outside the council offices where the charges were being debated and fixed but also in some cases involving violence within the council chambers themselves , occurred in particular over the period March 5-12 as councils took their final decisions . |
| 10 | Grossly updating our estimation of surviving Airspeed Oxfords , Jonathan Spinks has found a cache of no less than four substantially complete ( see photos ) airframes and six or so in poor condition at a site in Canada . |
| 11 | But these priorities have been predominantly short-term and fluctuating and often in open contradiction with the formal longer-term objectives of the railways . |
| 12 | In frightening contrast fitzAlan looked tough and completely immovable , and bigger than ever in the confined space of the alehouse . |
| 13 | There is much less flexing both fore and aft and laterally in the Seayak than in other plastic sea kayaks . |
| 14 | In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |
| 18 | He was tall and skinny and obviously in his early twenties , and was most noticeable for his permed and bleached hair , an unusual stylistic departure for a caddie . |
| 19 | A repertoire of ornament of a vernacular baroque character is applied with varying degrees of restraint , while the interiors , usually arranged with the hall and saloon across the centre and the staircase to one side , are enriched with fine joinery and plaster-work but little in the way of spatial incident . |
| 20 | The more moderate , responsible men and women began to leave in ones and twos and then in a landslide . |
| 21 | UK television advertising is also regarded as more sophisticated and predictable than elsewhere in Europe , making it an appealing source of revenue . |
| 22 | So one fifteenth of three hundred and sixty is going to be three hundred and sixty and then in front of that you 'll want one fifteenth of and this times thing is quite handy when we 're multiplying fractions together we 'll just get three sixty over fifteen . |
| 23 | HERE IN the most eastern tip of Lancashire , wedged between Westmorland and Yorkshire , where Leck Fell rises two thousand feet into the Pennine chain and no roads cross , the small village of Leck sits snugly amongst lush trees , as remote and beautiful as anywhere in England . |
| 24 | Some 60 letters written by Sir William Hillary to the Institution between 1824 and 1845 and now in the RNLI 's archives have recently been treated for preservation and placed in a presentation box — the cost being met from money raised by the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society . |
| 25 | They can often appear normal at birth but then start to either wander about aimlessly as if blind or even in more serious cases show convulsions . |
| 26 | The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair . |
| 27 | We had a flood of cases : buildings of all types and sizes , of all styles and ages , but with one thing in common — they were disused and decaying and evidently in need of a new owner or a new use , as their present owners were being decidedly neglectful . |
| 28 | Cranmer had no desire to make the Anglican Church national in doctrine and ritual but only in jurisdiction . |
| 29 | The makings of a quite substantial tomato salad mystique are scattered around waiting to be gathered up by some enterprising buyer who will get the produce flown in from Barcelona or Marseilles , Naples , Valencia or even possibly from Portugal , where the tomatoes are as good and plentiful as anywhere in Mediterranean lands . |
| 30 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |