Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] in [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | She was wearing a pink cotton dress which evidently belonged , not to her , but to the fattest resident , a mountain of a woman who was also asleep , whom Stephen had never seen other than asleep in all his visits . |
2 | If he was suing for less than 20s in 1830 he left a deposit of 5s ; 7s 6d for one between 20s and 40s ; 10s between 40s and 60s , and 12s 6d for 60s . |
3 | If you died with assets worth more than 140,000 in 1991/2 you paid tax at the full rate . |
4 | NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed . |
5 | He is ‘ other ’ than our sinful selves , holy and righteous in all his ways . |
6 | If a skewbald or piebald horse is introduced into a group of other solid coloured or monochromed horses — chestnuts , bays , greys , browns , whites , and blacks — the solid coloured horses are likely to go quite silly , as if they have never seen anything so terrible and exciting in all their lives before ! |
7 | He was blind and very deaf , but he remained cheerful and interested in all our doings . |
8 | She was so neat and quick in all her movements , and Matey had made her careful . |
9 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
10 | ‘ People on low incomes will be getting some help to pay the fuel bills and all in all it 's a Budget that 's not as bad as we expected , ’ Mr Bull said . |
11 | The author is 28 , film options have already been sold , Penguin is pushing it , and all in all it 's terrific , a sophisticated literary novel that could straddle the markets . |
12 | The people in the business had lost confidence in themselves and all in all it was a dismal picture . |
13 | Money is harder to come by , and all in all it 's a depressing time . |
14 | ‘ The teachers do n't teach , the priests do n't bother , and they 're releasing all the lunatics into the community so they do n't get looked after and they 'll either pass out from exposure or starvation or kill people because they 're mad , and then they 'll be slung into prison to add to the overcrowding , and all in all it does n't make a lot of sense . |
15 | In contrast , the News of the World itself covered eighteen cases in 1951 , thirty-five in 1961 and fifty-eight in 1971 which were not reported in the other four . |
16 | Proud of his own appearance and punctilious in all his social and religious observances , he was praised by the Spanish ambassador of the time as being |
17 | Alice , black hair flowing around her beautiful face : other images arose clear and bright in all their colours . |
18 | We shall see that in the nineteenth century this limited and special capacity was extended with some modifications to all married women ( see pp. 50–4 ) ; but that in 1935 it was swept away , and married women were given the same capacity to own property and make contracts as a man . |
19 | It is said that in marine water the eggs float but that in freshwater they tend to sink . |
20 | They were sometimes homesick — she for Yorkshire , he for Russia , but all in all they were happy — and hopeful … . |
21 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
22 | ‘ But all in all I suppose it was n't as bad as I thought it was going to be , ’ he said . |
23 | R.B. How far do you think the two issues … well there are many issues here , but two in particular it seems to me … the whole question of feminism is particularly important to the Catholic community ? |
24 | And then while I was there she was eating a bit of chocolate cake , I mean she 's right in the kitchen , she come back in and said oh my god , I said what , she said I 've never seen anybody pinch a bit of chocolate cake , on a plate as fast in all my life , Ben did n't want it so she whipped his an' all like . |
25 | Some ten per cent of theses in the present study are regarded as unproductive in that their authors failed to publish related papers ; the original theses were never consulted , and the theses have never been cited . |