Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 2 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
| 3 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 4 | They were eventually to settle more or less permanently in a pleasant apartment in the Kastanienallee — ‘ Chestnut Avenue ’ . |
| 5 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 6 | When two 2nd Order rivers join ( not a 1st and a 2nd ) the much larger river is 3rd Order , and so on in a hierarchy of sizes . |
| 7 | But where such mutuality is non-existent ; where through some personal need ( based in earlier life and relationships ) the woman finds her greatest satisfactions in motherhood rather than in marriage ; where male inadequacy sees neglect in anything but total attention ; or where circumstances exist in which addition to the family unduly diminishes the expression of sexual love between two partners : personal and sexual dissonance is likely to arise , which will lead to further marital rifts , which will themselves militate against sexual happiness … and so on in a vicious spiral . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ . |
| 9 | One of the salient features about this process is a phenomenon that might be described as endogenous economies of scale : more business is attracted to contracts with low bid-ask spreads ( i.e. high liquidity ) , and that attracts more market makers and more arbitrage and speculative activity on the exchange , and this increased competition drives down bid-ask spreads and so on in a virtuous circle . |
| 10 | And that can detect erm tumours , body defects and so forth in a , in a non-destructive way if I could put it that way . |
| 11 | The number of times you have to take the medicines varies : frequently in an acute condition and less frequently in a chronic one . |
| 12 | Pickerage was in bed in two shakes — again unlike him — and apparently deep in a book under the sheets . |
| 13 | And in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way , so the children in a sense remained children longer in the mixed ability situation , and again this was something that the teachers found very pleasing in that the pupils were remaining involved in the school much more and much longer in a mixed ability situation . |
| 14 | We 'll live happily and innocently together in a little white house I have in the south of France . |
| 15 | Shrubs , which had been dying from lack of water since the supply had been cut off , were suddenly green and straight again in a brief moment of health before the rising waters overwhelmed them . |
| 16 | And what I find interesting is that it 's the sheer vitality of the English sound — it 's not just the Liverpool sound , it 's the English sound — the vitality , the sensuality , the letting one 's hair down quality , that is exactly what the Continentals admired in Dunstable , and strangely enough in a way what Elgar 's got — this incredible sort of desire not to be over formal and to break down certain formal barriers which seems to be so characteristic of English music . |
| 17 | Well keep them in the house , and maybe once in a while , sort of once every two months , just put a couple of drops in maybe Saturday night or Sunday night . |
| 18 | When he pleaded the case for continued co-operation with the Russians , at first privately in a letter to Truman and then openly in a public speech , the President , dismissed him . |
| 19 | The fact that the teacher finds that the child has spelt a word correctly in one context and then perhaps in a sentence or two later may misspell the word , makes the teacher think that this is a question of carelessness , where we know , in fact , that is a feature of dylexia — that you may be able to get a spelling correct in one context and yet you will misspell it , as it were , a few moments later . |
| 20 | With this 100 per cent jib she 's powerful and relatively upright in a breeze |
| 21 | Canada 's selection policy came as a surprise to many observers , with changes made in the side that defeated Fiji in preparation for Romania and yet again in a winning team for the final pool game against France . |
| 22 | After an hour or so of this the group swam slowly and steadily away in a north-easterly direction along the Boston deeps , and they were watched following this course until the light failed . |
| 23 | And actually really in a last resort in many cases they come to you . |
| 24 | At every transaction he writes copiously and painstakingly slowly in a book . |
| 25 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |
| 26 | I know in our case , and therefore probably in a lot that it is n't always possible , they 'll always find a way in , but if there was some perhaps advice to people it might bring down this number of complaints , that you could perhaps do before the wasp season begins , I do n't know whether that 's a possibility or not . |
| 27 | The concept of the spectacle is an effective term which now has a wide currency , but perhaps only in a sense which approximates its use by the Situationists . |
| 28 | De Man makes the texts of Nietzsche , Rousseau , Rilke and Proust speak sometimes in citation , but more often in a mode akin to free indirect speech . |
| 29 | The same themes , the same subjects and poses are reinterpreted over and over again , often in some completely original way , but sometimes also in a manner reminiscent of a previous phase ; any novelty is eventually assimilated to what had preceded it ; nothing is ever discarded . |
| 30 | Assimilation of voice is also found , but again only in a limited way . |