Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may do it by actually ‘ clobbering ’ somebody , but this would imply a rather drastic escalation of the conflict situation and happens too rarely for everyone in the aggro-leader role to prove themselves . |
| 2 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 3 | There was always something for someone in the criminal world . |
| 4 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 5 | For someone in the early stages of mastering Coke throat-burn like myself , this is impressive . |
| 6 | Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) . |
| 7 | Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Could you write an article for somebody in the top year of your last school , about English A Level , and what they should be able to , what they should expect ? |
| 9 | More of them were the sons or grandsons of someone in the Christian ministry . |
| 10 | The report noted that " if the 1980s were dominated by the debt crisis in the developing world , the 1990s have started under the shadow of one in the developed " . |
| 11 | The Murcia ruling gave the PSOE 176 seats , a majority of one in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies . |
| 12 | In the latter group the picture was very similar , a replacement rate of one in the generation following the Black Death , below one in the sixty years before 1437 , and rising above it between then and the end of the century ( 104 , p.204 ) . |
| 13 | The two friends took stock of everything in the immediate vicinity . |
| 14 | The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything … |
| 15 | It is symptomatic of our age that we wish to declare the existence of everything in the loudest possible way . |
| 16 | For a moment there was a flash of something in the dark eye . |
| 17 | Oh you have a bag of something in the sweet box in the cupboard in the kitchen which you must take and put on your desk . |
| 18 | I reject absolutely any charges of racism on the part of anyone in the Tory party in the Langbaurgh campaign . |
| 19 | His anxieties were not unassisted by George Wigg , who became more and more valuable to Wilson , principally as a source of information — largely , alas , misinformation — about the behaviour of anyone in the parliamentary party . |
| 20 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 21 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 22 | I was advised that before studying psionic medicine it would be appropriate to learn homoeopathy and this I duly did , leaving my post in the genetics department for one in the homoeopathic hospital . |
| 23 | It is thought that for a house in the high-rate stratum the assets are about four times as great as for one in the low-rate stratum , and that the stratum standard deviation is proportional to the square root of the stratum mean . |
| 24 | But in Saussure 's system there are only the two terms , Signifier and Signified , with nothing in the third column . |
| 25 | Though Craig and Jo have a number of sexy scenes together in Home and Away , she says the advantage of her real-life relationship with someone in the same industry is that her partner fully understands that romantic clinches with an international heart-throb are just part of the job . |
| 26 | Planned for this year are centres in Bratislava , Bucharest , Moscow , Riga , Sofia , Talinn , Vilnius and Zagreb , with one in the Albanian capital of Tirana scheduled for 1994 . |
| 27 | The dominance of the US houses was , however , broken by the entry of the Japanese , with one in the top five in 1986 and three in 1987 . |
| 28 | How far the EC can be regarded as a common labour market , or will develop into one in the foreseeable future , remains an open question . |
| 29 | Many a ship has come to grief along this shore , including one in the 19th century carrying the dowry of Catherine of Braganza , Queen of Charles II . |
| 30 | A further severe tremor followed 12 hours later in the same area ( measuring 6.5 ) and others on June 24 around Rasht ( 5.7 ) , together with numerous other aftershocks and tremors on June 24-25 including one in the Farsan region of southern Iran on June 24 ( 4.9 ) . |