Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [indef pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 2 | Now come on you lot of get one in this box ! |
| 3 | They do not look white in virtue of having something in common ; they have something in common ( their whiteness ) in virtue of looking white . |
| 4 | For each of us ( it is said ) our lives are given sense by certain projects , whether it be that of being a certain sort of person , or of achieving something in such fields as the political , or cultural , or in our personal relations . |
| 5 | If there is a problem , it 's that , while all the individual elements make sense , put together they generate an exhilarating overload of 24K sound and post-industrial fury which is in danger of signifying nothing in particular about cyberspace or anything else . |
| 6 | What 's the problem with sending one in each time ? |
| 7 | Curse me for having nothing in this world to give him but gratitude ! ’ |
| 8 | Succeeds in driving one in three directions ( 4 ) |
| 9 | If he can produce no grand reason for abandoning left-wing Labour attitudes , people will be forgiven if they conclude that the change was cynical and opportunistic and that Mr Kinnock is more interested in gaining office than in doing anything in particular once he has arrived at the top . |
| 10 | In addition to deleting anything in bad or questionable taste , you might like to add a national , regional or personal dimension to a good joke . |
| 11 | The vivid recording helps to bring out the degree of refinement that Miss Edwards finds even in 1812 , without losing anything in dramatic bite . |
| 12 | The beginning of conversation with strangers is all about finding something in common — or , to put it more succinctly and to use a very 1990s ' word , to discover commonality . |
| 13 | dir : Sounds like an excuse to loaf around doing nothing in particular to me . |
| 14 | I have to say that each morning when I walk off platform 16 , I invariably see five or six BR employees hanging around doing nothing in particular . |
| 15 | The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) . |