Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he was a wheel in his own town , though I did n't know then the town was Waldron City . |
| 2 | No , he 's pretty much of a jerk in his personal dealings ’ . |
| 3 | Little wonder that the savage Saxons regarded Christianity as a Frankish method of suppression and control rather than a true religion in its own right . |
| 4 | Setting up so many colonies to give people a chance to practise religion in their own way had helped produce a great diversity among the English colonies . |
| 5 | Freedom to worship our religion in our own country has been bought dearly with blood and tears — and you do not surrender that sort of freedom easily . |
| 6 | And it demonstrated that Hitler 's instinctive grasp of the ‘ gut feelings ’ of the population , on which his effectiveness as a speaker greatly rested , was also beginning to leave him as a result of his isolation in his distant field headquarters . |
| 7 | When she paused in her work and turned to look at him , he saw the disappointment in her dark eyes . |
| 8 | It can be seen that the only disappointment in our achieved samples was the comparatively small size of the control sample in Ipswich . |
| 9 | I became an exile in my own land . ’ |
| 10 | This is , of course , only one of the needs identified by the Carers National Association in their 10-point plan . |
| 11 | The Board gave indications of its thinking in its first Report to the Lord Chancellor and in a consultation paper issued in May 1989 . |
| 12 | He would n't dream of adopting such a persona in his own business world , and I knew it . |
| 13 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 14 | But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high . |
| 15 | We 've had , we we had stock in our blooming warehouse since what November ? |
| 16 | A Wakefield-based china and crystal chain , Peter Jones China , is already manufacturing a £25 fine bone china commemorative mug to mark the ‘ historical landmark in our political history ’ , viz , John 's recent scrape home . |
| 17 | The Report of the Franks Committee in 1957 was recognized by Robson as ‘ an important landmark in our constitutional history ’ , largely because it accepted that administrative tribunals are ‘ a valuable and permanent part of the machinery of justice ’ and went much further ‘ than the grudging admission of the advantages possessed by tribunals accorded by the Donoughmore Report ’ . |
| 18 | After You Watch activities for the Episode in its complete form , and for each of the four Sections . |
| 19 | It is told by Tony Hancock in ‘ The Blood Donor ’ , a classic episode in his wonderful TV series . |
| 20 | She loved him so much , and to realise that she was only an episode in his busy life was bitter indeed . |
| 21 | FIERY actress Tatum O'Neal is to star as a killer in her first TV series since splitting with tennis ace John McEnroe . |
| 22 | It was not the UN 's fault that heavily armed SWAPO guerrillas violated the Namibian peace deal in its first hours by crossing the border into the territory ( see page 75 ) . |
| 23 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 24 | He held his swagger-stick in his left hand and massaged it with his right . |
| 25 | A researcher reports a particular result , and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs . |
| 26 | A related procedure was used by Kleiman ( 1975 ) ; we have also briefly mentioned his experiment in our earlier discussion of using the GPC rules in reading and spelling . |
| 27 | His method can be illustrated by an account of the most celebrated experiment in his mental laboratory manual — the unc microscope . |
| 28 | Minton was obliged to register the jeep in his own name as Norman as yet had only a provisional licence . |
| 29 | His landscapes convey a direct corporeal perception in its very picture , circumstance and complexion of the instant . ’ |
| 30 | Its exclusively perceptual meaning also bars it from being construed with a that-clause , whereas this construction is a close equivalent of the to infinitive with verbs of perception in their conceptual use : ( 46 ) * I watched that they were obnoxious . |