Example sentences of "[adj] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a programme ranging in character from Willie was a Wanton Wag to the Englishman William Boyce 's rather inadequate attempts to sound Scottish in A Scots Cantata , Anderson 's understandable shortcomings could surely have been further compensated for by violinist Richard Gwilt , but inconsistent articulation coupled with a lack of incisiveness negated much of the music 's subtlety . |
| 2 | The thought that the world might have been different in a certain respect is taken to be the thought that there is a possible world which does differ from the actual world in that respect ( and probably others too ) . |
| 3 | It is true that in the case of Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran Slade LJ attached considerable significance to the fact that the land there in question had been fenced off and the gate locked , but the position it seems to me is quite different in a metropolitan context such as one finds in Brighton . |
| 4 | However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time . |
| 5 | Therefore , total and systematic risk should not be too different in a well-diversified portfolio . |
| 6 | The situation is altogether different in a continuous-process industry . |
| 7 | Your method of narration is likely to be different in a short story . |
| 8 | That the word is intended pejoratively was made clear in a 1987 BBC radio documentary on Karajan entitled ‘ The Price of Perfection ’ . |
| 9 | The distinction between education and schooling becomes clear in a rural society . |
| 10 | This concern was linked with Marx 's anthropological work , as made clear in a famous letter to the Russian socialist Vera Zasulich . |
| 11 | The use of English forms was also clear in a notable example where the English expression to dress-up forced signer 2 to make the sign DRESS with an upward movement ( which means to UNDRESS in BSL ) when the BSL sign properly carries a downward movement . |
| 12 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 13 | The assumptions on which this conclusion is based will be made clear in a later paragraph . |
| 14 | At the end of the following year , in December 1980 , the CGLI submitted its own proposals for the constitution of the validating body and , eventually , in July 1981 , the government 's position was made clear in a ministerial statement to parliament . |
| 15 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 16 | Adhering to such notions as balance and impartiality may be justifiable in a national context , although even this is increasingly suspect , but in the international context these notions and their attendant practices are meaningless . |
| 17 | It was , eventually , their forward power that told on the Old Boys , with New Zealander No 8 Dale MacIntosh conspicuous in a constructive back row . |
| 18 | This does not mean that names are always replaceable in a straightforward fashion by descriptive phrases . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes ’ , says Spencer ‘ when it goes wrong , it goes wrong in a big way . ’ |
| 20 | A WEEK 'S self-catering in a Standard room at Somerwest in August will cost a family of four £504 . |
| 21 | He 's quite good-looking in a film-starry way — I 'd always thought of him as young . |
| 22 | The blonde was good-looking in a cheeky sort of way . |
| 23 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 24 | To Las Vegas or Monaco da da da money money money funny in a rich man 's world . |
| 25 | She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man . |
| 26 | For example , cancer of the hard palate is found worldwide but is fairly rare ; however , the prevalence is very high in a certain area of South America . |
| 27 | Returning to Gorer 's work , this situation adds point to the feeling among most of his respondents that give-and-take , understanding and discussion , mutual trust and help etc. rank high in a happy marriage . |
| 28 | The tables were high in a breakfast-bar style and so were the stools , and on the walls were movie posters and signed eight-by-tens . |
| 29 | Exotic Butterflies flying free in a Tropical Garden |
| 30 | The narrow strip of tarmac , not enclosed by fences , winds free in a continuous search for easy passage . |