Example sentences of "[adj] in an [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't suppose it figures large in an officer 's training . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The second misunderstanding concerns the ideas which must be present in an animal 's mind if kin selection is to operate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A man who is essentially passive in an activist 's role , a man willing to let the tides of history dictate his actions . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |