Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis . |
| 2 | Series producer Madeline Wilstshire explains : ‘ We have more drama in this series but the reporters are not actors , they 're just ordinary teenagers who are interested enough in a subject to want to make a television programme about it . ’ |
| 3 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 4 | Standing in the queue were problems of the economy , of the development of the productive forces , which , with regard to agriculture , was conceivable only in a form of the growth of petty-bourgeois economy . |
| 5 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 6 | It was high up in a tree , its back part and hind legs caught in a fork of two branches . |
| 7 | Mandy was telling us , you know , about one of her friends she erm her husband was very high up in a company and he went to work one day and they called him in the office and says right , you ai n't got a job ! |
| 8 | It would , as Mr. Lloyd conceded , be exercisable also in a case where no misrepresentation inducing the transaction could be pointed to but where a registered proprietor had entered into a transaction under a misapprehension for which the other party to the transaction was not responsible , a misapprehension as to the value of the property , for example . |
| 9 | He felt that MacArthur was not interested now in a peace conference actually meeting but rather of putting forward the proposal in order for the Soviet Union to reject it . |
| 10 | First , the global standardization of taste is global only in a class sense . |
| 11 | I do n't think I 'd have been warm enough in a shellsuit . |
| 12 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 13 | Alum Pot is straight ahead in a plantation of trees and is reached on foot in a few minutes , arriving there simultaneously with Alum Pot Beck which enters the plantation and disappears into the depths . |
| 14 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 15 | As he grew up , he lost his appetite for the game and , natural enough in a teenager , he questioned his motives and direction , and was lost to the scheme . |
| 16 | If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 17 | Chocolate and chips are fine once in a while , but every day it 's a disaster , says Derek Cooper |
| 18 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 19 | That was lucky really in a way |
| 20 | New east-west fold mountains immediately began to be destroyed again , producing mountains of conglomerate such as the fantastic shapes of Montserrat , near Barcelona ( plate 8.1 ) which is remarkable even in a country of conglomerates like Spain . |
| 21 | In Cyrenaica , then , the social and economic pattern was agricultural , and to a degree which was thought remarkable even in a world not familiar with alternatives to agricultural economies ( p. 13 ) . |
| 22 | In extreme cases , unjustified delay can render a dismissal unfair even in a case where a similar penalty would have been legitimate had management not dragged its feet . |
| 23 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 24 | Even so , in 1974 and in subsequent general elections the system would have proved viable only in a minority of regions . |
| 25 | A gas that is present only in a trace — carbon dioxide — is , in practice , the stuff from which all flesh is made . |
| 26 | There was some scepticism as to whether performance would be good enough in a system built from the bottom up in objects . |
| 27 | ‘ Getting by 's not good enough in a game like this . |
| 28 | With an album due out in a couple of weeks , the mixture of old and new material was just right . |
| 29 | It does provide much of the mechanicals for the Brava pick-ups , now labelled Vauxhall not Bedford , and doubtless will contribute in no small measure to Vauxhall 's new Frontera 4 × 4 due out in a month or two . |
| 30 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |