Example sentences of "[adj] in a [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when she watched the scene during the shooting , she 'd find more girls in the pile of smashed-up cars : one putting on lipstick high in a lorry 's cab , another lying on the bonnet like a mascot , face to the car 's prow , giving a feline look as she too read aloud , from a French philosopher who later in a fit of madness pushed his wife under in the bath , and held her there till there were no more bubbles . |
| 2 | A woman 's dress sense is much less important to more educated men than to those with basic education , while married men are less interested in a woman 's mouth than any other group . |
| 3 | Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going . |
| 4 | Try to see Rasbora kalochroma well-established in a dealer 's tanks before considering a purchase . |
| 5 | The mode of student attendance is more difficult to forecast , because while a full-time place for study will feature topmost in a candidate 's range of choices , the prospect of getting a job early may provide a stimulus for part-time study . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't suppose it figures large in an officer 's training . ’ |
| 7 | Ezra Pound 's long love affair with England , and his angry and wounded turning against her in 1917 or 1918 , can not of course bulk so large in an American 's sense of him as in an Englishman 's . |
| 8 | But er , it was just the thing , they thought inevitable in a tailor 's workroom . |
| 9 | It helped to have two such formidable singers taking the two female dragon roles : Anne Collins as a fruity Princess Clarissa , tyrannical in a general 's uniform of black leather , and Jane Eaglen as Fata Morgana , like Katisha in Mikado only more so . |
| 10 | The second misunderstanding concerns the ideas which must be present in an animal 's mind if kin selection is to operate . |
| 11 | One reason why no such demonstration is possible is the fact that a variety of factors are involved in a scientist 's judgement of the merits of a scientific theory . |
| 12 | The rest of this chapter and the following chapter provide a more detailed account of the processes which are involved in a child 's mastery of language from the perspective of learning theory , the acquisition of abstract rules and developmental change . |
| 13 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 14 | Surely it must be something else , something basic , inherent in a person 's character or , rather , most people 's characters , which saw to it that the world went round . |
| 15 | Yet , the benefit inherent in a holder 's right to sue the carrier may well be worth the burden of having to pay unpaid freight . |
| 16 | People are viewed as having a ‘ station ’ or ‘ groove ’ in society ; notions which imply a distinctive balance between rights and duties inherent in an individual 's social role or function . |
| 17 | Free elections would then be possible in a year 's time when all parties could participate equally . ’ |
| 18 | The case is likely to be heard soon in private in a judge 's chambers . |
| 19 | Fox said : ‘ He was like a hungry dog let loose in a butcher 's shop ; not knowing where to start . |
| 20 | What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise . |
| 21 | And then we get through customs , and the two of us are having a laugh because we 're safely back , and suddenly this drunk in a chauffeur 's cap throws himself at us and nearly puts out my eye with a cardboard sign and treads on my foot into the bargain . |
| 22 | Few people will be able to complete the route in one go , but luckily it is accessible by public transport at a number of staging points , so it can be split into chunks more manageable in a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 23 | This experience of a tight community of shared aspiration is rare in a novelist 's lonely life . |
| 24 | A man who is essentially passive in an activist 's role , a man willing to let the tides of history dictate his actions . ’ |
| 25 | A YOUNG Portadown businessman told today how a two-foot long piece of shrapnel which missed him by inches ended up embedded in an employee 's leg . |
| 26 | A consequence of this tradition is that the sculptor 's own personality may receive less prominence in a monograph than a painter 's , as the effect of patronage given or withheld can be decisive in a sculptor 's career . |
| 27 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 28 | THE MAN responsible for Britain 's contribution to the Concorde programme is this country 's candidate for the top job at the European space Agency ( ESA ) , which becomes vacant in a year 's time . |
| 29 | If the Lady of the Hearth principle is active in a woman 's life , then it will have a pleasurable and creative quality to it . |
| 30 | I mean we 've still got a barren at the back , somebody kicks you at the back on that barren and er in the skeleton that 's exactly like the barren in a monkey 's tail |