Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swivel the foot slowly in a circular movement to the right , then to the left . |
| 2 | Should I see my sister alone in a foreign country — blind ? |
| 3 | Yet in relation to our local communities , these bureaucrats are part of the dominant ideology only in a relative sense . |
| 4 | For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon . |
| 5 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 6 | She put her card away in a safe place — then could n't remember where . |
| 7 | Below is an example from French , where separate drills of each tense ( already individually mastered ) would be placed side by side preferably in a meaningful frame and drilled across . |
| 8 | Usually after one or two turns these gliders will unstall themselves and build up speed rapidly in a spiralling dive . |
| 9 | At time it feels like a matter of survival against the elements , keeping your boat upright in a strong breeze . |
| 10 | MARINATED SHOULDER OF LAMB STUFFED WITH LEEKS AND CHICKEN LIVERS , WITH GREEN AND RED SAUCE 4–4½lb/1.8–2kg shoulder of lamb , boned but not rolled juice of one lemon 2 tbsp sherry vinegar 3 tbsp olive oil 8oz/225g chicken livers 3 medium leeks 2oz/50g fresh breadcrumbs 2 tsp pink peppercorns 1 medium egg black pepper For the sauce 1 small red pepper 4oz/100g spinach good handful fresh mint 2 tsp cumin seeds ½ pint/300ml double cream 1 tbsp sherry vinegar salt , black pepper The night before , lay the boned lamb flesh side upwards in a large shallow dish or roasting pan . |
| 11 | MARINATED SHOULDER OF LAMB STUFFED WITH LEEKS AND CHICKEN LIVERS , WITH GREEN AND RED SAUCE 4–4½lb/1.8–2kg shoulder of lamb , boned but not rolled juice of one lemon 2 tbsp sherry vinegar 3 tbsp olive oil 8oz/225g chicken livers 3 medium leeks 2oz/50g fresh breadcrumbs 2 tsp pink peppercorns 1 medium egg black pepper For the sauce 1 small red pepper 4oz/100g spinach good handful fresh mint 2 tsp cumin seeds ½ pint/300ml double cream 1 tbsp sherry vinegar salt , black pepper The night before , lay the boned lamb flesh side upwards in a large shallow dish or roasting pan . |
| 12 | An almost remarkable achievement , even though you feel as though you 've been in their bedroom before in a different life . |
| 13 | High market growth , if taken to be an indicator of an early stage in a life-cycle ( or a break-point upwards in a revitalized mature-stage life-cycle ; see Gilbert and Strebel , 1988 ) , coupled with high market share should lead to high ROI if the appropriate investment is undertaken . |
| 14 | Aid today in a similar proportion to American exports would amount to some $130billion , an unimaginably large figure . |
| 15 | Ben clenched his teeth then pulled hard on the right-hand oar , turning the prow slowly towards the distant house , the dark , slick-edged blade biting deep into the glaucous , muscular flow as he hauled the boat about in a tight arc . |
| 16 | But just as clearly he is a tough politician who speaks his mind sometimes in a blunt way . |
| 17 | Obediently , resignedly , he swings the car round in a dangerous U-turn at the next intersection and they flash back towards the airport , the jewel factories and towerblocks of the Bangkok suburbs thinning out again to the dim outlines of swampy fields pierced by palmtree plantations . |
| 18 | He groaned , and shifted a little , tantalising her with the answering flicker of his tongue over the heavy swell of her breast , before he took her mouth again in a long and hungry kiss . |
| 19 | Questions which ask for a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ answer are badly devised and do not carry the interview forward in a constructive way . |
| 20 | But that does n't mean to say that what Danny said was very valuable , and as you said Adrian , the four , the four parties , the receiver , the thirty party receiver , the people who are paying the bills buyer and us are very happy in many cases with using carriage forward in a positive way not just for returns |
| 21 | A letter to the Reich Propaganda Ministry from a former employee currently in a military hospital , dealing with the mood among soldiers , stated that he had yet to meet a single one who accepted the Führer 's figures . |
| 22 | One of them said that Andrus normally took his money away in a small bag , one he could conceal under his gown , it 's safer that way . |
| 23 | To qualify for money , the projects had to demonstrate that they were going to work effectively in a joint way . |
| 24 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 25 | She does her weekly shopping not in a huge supermarket but in the camp 's NAAFI and in an effort to actually go out and meet people Sue has got herself a day job . |
| 26 | It is not a good idea to keep fountains running in the cold months , because they exert a chilling effect and , of course , the jets in the nozzles will be the first to ice up in a frosty snap . |
| 27 | The skill is running down the beach with all your equipment often in a stiff breeze . |
| 28 | Retain flexibility even in a planned interview . |
| 29 | Wedded gloom : Japan gained a new crown princess today in a solemn wedding ceremony when Western-educated former diplomat Masako Owada , 29 , married Crown Prince Naruhito , 33 , heir to the world 's oldest monarchy . |
| 30 | He proceeds to mooch about in a hang-dog way until he runs across his younger brother , quiet student Dennis ( William Sage ) who informs him their long-lost father has just been arrested for bombing the Pentagon 20 years previously . |