Example sentences of "[det] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wonder if we 're handling this in the right way , ’ he said cautiously . |
| 2 | In more secluded areas where we consider a car to be essential , we include this in the overall holiday price . |
| 3 | It would not have been necessary otherwise to insert an advertisement like this in the New Yorker : |
| 4 | Hybrid Tea bush types After attending to the basics or primary aspects — removing completely all dead , diseased and feeble wood ( you wo n't find much of this in the first year ) — seek to prune to outward-pointing buds that will grow out along the line of growth , not sideways , so that this growth leads to an open cup or shuttlecock shape . |
| 5 | If they were smart enough to get bored , they would n't be doing a job like this in the first place . |
| 6 | It 's the Principle that got us started on all this in the first place , remember . |
| 7 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 8 | Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place . |
| 9 | There are altogether thirty instances of this in the two sets of interviews , resulting from three different situations which occurred almost equally commonly : need for housing space , death , or desertion . |
| 10 | To convert this into a form which will allow us to express this in the correct site fraction form we can add and subtract on the r.h.s. of equation ( 8.19 ) to give |
| 11 | all this in the private sector would 've |
| 12 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 13 | The inner city is now chic , and this in the Low Street in North Shields . |
| 14 | Faith as I see it — by a Layman ’ ; and although there was first a certain amount of debate about what the nature and title of the broadcasts should be , Lewis began to do this in the late summer of 1941 , taking the train from Oxford to London every Wednesday evening , and broadcasting from 7.45 to 8.00 p.m . |
| 15 | The feeble achievements of the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ) and the Group of 77 confirm this in the political sphere . |
| 16 | Harold Fox has shown this in the vast upland parish of Hartland , where many farms are the remains of former hamlets , while other hamlets have disappeared completely . |
| 17 | Why do we have this fighting this in the front room |
| 18 | The eminent French sociologist Raymond Aron ( 1968 ) explained this in the following way : |
| 19 | We classify this in the following way . |
| 20 | We can understand this in the following way : What we think of as " empty " space can not be completely empty because that would mean that all the fields , such as the gravitational and electromagnetic fields , would have to be exactly zero . |
| 21 | One can picture this in the following way . |
| 22 | Durkheim put this in the following way : |
| 23 | Alternatively , the nominalization can follow a ‘ weak ’ subject such as This in the following example ( from Johns , 1991 ) : |
| 24 | Urwick ( 1947 ) summarises this in the following terms : |
| 25 | Gumperz discusses this in the following terms : the bilingual phenomena we are concerned with are usually accompanied by extensive convergence and structural overlap … sentences in language pairs which seem quite distinct from the monolingual perspective may appear to be almost identical on the surface … |
| 26 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 27 | It is easy to see this in the nineteenth century because the development of local government reflected economic organization and the political processes which derived from it . |
| 28 | We see this in the increasing influence of the new Ecology Movement , in the power of the Gaia theory , in the efforts of established religions to come to terms with their part in dealing with these issues ; and much more humbly , but much more universally , we see it in the increased attention that so many of us are now paying to the ways we celebrate the beauty and diversity of life on Earth . |
| 29 | " Drop this in the soiled linen , will you . " |
| 30 | I 'm telling you this in the strictest confidence of course . ’ |