Example sentences of "[adj] in [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parody can sometimes get to the heart of the matter in a way that imitation can not , and George Birmingham 's King Tommy is genuinely Ruritanian in its quirky way . |
| 2 | Their poison has the same origin as that of the snakes — modified saliva — but the animals are much more primitive in their wounding mechanism . |
| 3 | By now almost wholly French in his artistic outlook , in August 1824 he was as amazed as his French contemporaries when Constable 's Hay Wain and Hampstead Heath were exhibited at the famous Salon Anglais . |
| 4 | Thus , the following pair of sentences The man was eager to please and The man was easy to please are alike in their surface structure but are different in their deep structure . |
| 5 | However , road pricing is rapidly claiming widespread support — from organisations as different in their political perspectives as the Institute of Directors and the new Institute for Public Policy Research . |
| 6 | They may prefer to believe themselves to be special and different in their primary addictions rather than part of a wider group of sufferers from addictive disease . |
| 7 | Not only can marked variation in embryonic development be observed even within litters but , during such a dynamic phase of morphogenetic change , embryos only a few hours apart in age may be significantly different in their developmental state . |
| 8 | For example , the Chinese character for happiness ( Fu ) is pronounced exactly like the character for bat ; the characters for " stag " and " emolument " ( or profit from employment ) , although totally different in their written form , sound the same when spoken aloud . |
| 9 | For Linnaeus the varieties of men were like breeds of dog , different in their appearance , different in their manifest behaviour , but indifferently equal in their moral quality . |
| 10 | Are the people different in their social characteristics and if so why ? |
| 11 | Examples of this kind could readily be multiplied , but it does not follow that the different methods espoused are really all that different in their fundamental orientations . |
| 12 | The eggs of these insects hatch to give a nymph ( sometimes called a larva ) , which looks similar to the adult , but is smaller , has no wings , can not reproduce , and is often slightly different in its bodily proportions and has different markings . |
| 13 | The inner mind is simply different in its essential configuration . |
| 14 | In the case of the 1971 Etna eruption , the magma involved was the same basaltic one throughout , yet its behaviour was quite different in its de-gassed condition in the second phase from its original state in the first , when the eruption was mildly explosive . |
| 15 | Since we are quite different in our behavioural capacities , notably in our possessing language , this may reflect a lack of subtlety on the part of the anatomists but it is probably reasonable to assume that the input and output ends of the system are pretty much the same in monkeys as in people . |
| 16 | The fabliau through which Pearcy approaches this point , Connebert , is crystal clear in its poetic justice , with a lecherous priest being forced to castrate himself . |
| 17 | If such materials are clear in their visual presentation and able to be used in appropriate environmental conditions , the pupils ' task will be that much easier . |
| 18 | Perhaps she was getting civilized in her old age . |
| 19 | But even if we do not , we must surely take seriously the witness those chapters bear to the freedom of God , particularly since we are still so prone in our self-important humanity to attempt to manipulate him . |
| 20 | He saw them laughing carelessly together , ruttish and brutal in their casual coupling . |
| 21 | Then he forced her legs apart , brutal in his final mastery . |
| 22 | I have found the crop to be very reliable in our wet conditions , and it is relished by cattle in early winter . |
| 23 | I could n't get rid of my disability , became more staunch in my socialist politics , got rid of my accent and was thankful when my parents put themselves into enormous debt and bought a tip of a house in Croydon . |
| 24 | During the campaign period the DPP had purposely been less strident in its controversial advocacy of Taiwanese independence . |
| 25 | She had thought the department store that stood opposite the theatre unassailable in its pale-green elegance . |
| 26 | In the machine shop , without Victor Wilcox to escort her , Robyn was as conspicuous in her high-fashion boots , her cord breeches and her cream-coloured quilted jacket , as some rare animal , a white doe or a unicorn , would have been in the same place . |
| 27 | Genuinely considerate and sympathetic to others , she is rather disorganised in her day-to-day functioning but has learned to delegate attention to detail and accuracy while she focuses on broader , long-term objectives . |
| 28 | The fact remains that most older people are fairly rigid in their sexual views and , more surprisingly perhaps , a good deal less knowledgeable in matters of sex than their younger compatriots . |
| 29 | Only this time she was able to tell herself that ‘ Anyone can make a mistake ’ and that these two nurses were , in fact , wrong in their hasty prognosis . |
| 30 | However , the colonial administrators were wrong in their particular approach to the problem and it is here and in the reaction of the Africans to colonial attitudes that we can find reasons for failure . |