Example sentences of "[coord] in a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advertisements may range in size from a small window notice to a massive hoarding ; they vary in purpose from a bus stop sign to the demand to buy a certain make of detergent ; they could be situated alongside a cathedral , in a busy shopping street , or in a particularly beautiful rural setting ; they might be pleasant or obnoxious to look at ; they might be temporary or permanent ; and so on . |
| 2 | Words were either presented in the correct order ( shown above ) , or in a completely random order . |
| 3 | Mr. Tecks submitted that the European Court of Justice authorities , cited below , show that the crucial words refer to obligations which have their basis in contract or in a closely similar nexus such as that existing between an association and its members , so that the matters in question must be contractual or closely akin to contractual . |
| 4 | 5 million ) indicates that a far higher proportion of children spend part of their childhood in a lone-parent family than such a figure indicates , and that some children may spend repeated periods of time in a lone parent family , or in a newly constituted family . |
| 5 | In such cases , Hansard has frequently been referred to with a view to ascertaining whether a statutory power has been improperly exercised for an alien purpose or in a wholly unreasonable manner . |
| 6 | Ortega announced on Nov. 8 that a total of 5,000 officers would be retired in order to bring the full complement of the People 's Sandinista Army ( EPS ) down to 28,000 " immediately or in a very short time " . |
| 7 | They have full jurisdiction to say : ‘ We are satisfied that there is a nuisance here , but we are not going to order you to do what the local authority say you are to do because we think it can be done in another and cheaper way or in a more effective way ’ . |
| 8 | But aside from this there are ample remedies to ensure that the Director 's powers are not abused , either at long range through the medium of judicial review , or in a more peremptory manner through the power of the trial judge to ensure that the conduct of the trial is fair . |
| 9 | To equate the will of the people with the will of the majority may often be a justifiable piece of political shorthand ; but those in a minority , whether it be on a particular issue or in a more long-term and fundamental way , are always entitled to remind the rest of society that they too are part of " the people " . |
| 10 | But the roads on which he drives it also go through most of the art produced in the last half century — shall we say for the sake of convenience , since the death of Trotsky ; or in a more apt frame of reference , since Guernica ? |
| 11 | Seating arrangements will , of course , depend on the nature of the activities being undertaken and the extent to which the work is taking place in informal groups or in a more structured teaching situation . |
| 12 | the situation of the store ( Is it in a busy shopping area or in a less advantageous situation where he may need to attract customers ? ) |
| 13 | Wholly admirable , but perhaps not best expressed in terms of individual academic subjects , nor in a highly complex machinery of published testing and assessment . |
| 14 | But the long story of how this valley more or less governed itself , and in a profoundly communal spirit , is typically Pyrenean . |
| 15 | But precisely because purity is invested with such a tremendous erotic charge , fears of ‘ impurity ’ remained insistent and corrosive , and in a perversely dynamic proximity disavowed along lines suggested by Freud 's remarks at the beginning of this section , and in a passage from ‘ Repression ’ ( 191 5 ) worth citing again in this context : |
| 16 | The theory developed for this purpose by Wimsatt and Brooks ( and in a rather different way by Ransom and Tate ) takes as its starting-point Richards 's ( and Coleridge 's ) principle of the reconciliation of opposites , though the view it arrives at differs from Richards 's in a number of important respects . |
| 17 | For the afternoon service at St John 's , it was Franklin who arrived late and found the door of the church locked , but he forced an entry , and in a rather childish fracas , " put his legs between [ Eyles " s ] legs , lifted him up " , and attempted to throw him into the next seat . |
| 18 | An odd move , to be sure , at a time when prices were falling — and in a rather smart street , too , where such a venture would not be guaranteed to make him instantly popular with the neighbours , as customers came in one door and noisome smells came out of another . |
| 19 | He looked at me , and in a rather quiet voice , which was most unusual for him , be enquired , ‘ Do you know the March Past of the Irish Guards ? ’ |
| 20 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 21 | Well , she is comfortably settled in now , being very well looked after , and in a wholly suitable atmosphere . |
| 22 | Similar results were noted both in patients with confirmed cholera and in a clinically similar group of patients with acute watery diarrhoea from whom V cholerae was not isolated . |
| 23 | In general they did not seek harsh retributory sentences once order had been restored and in a surprisingly large number of cases actually went some way towards meeting the wishes of the crowd by doing something to encourage a lowering of prices and initiating or participating in relief measures . |
| 24 | The dash for gas affects us directly , and in a particularly perverse way . ' |
| 25 | In the event , the culmination of the relationship occurred when the telephone rang one day and in a suspiciously silky voice George asked me where I thought the Derby Cup was . |
| 26 | Madam Deputy Speaker : As the hon. Gentleman knows , the hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) raised a point of order on that matter a few moments ago — but as the hon. Member for Falkirk , East represents the constituency concerned , it is understandable that he wants to raise it again , and in a most helpful manner . |
| 27 | He criticized " irrational nationalistic blindness " , and in a scarcely veiled attack on the introduction of multiparty systems in Slovenia and Croatia he complained that the process of drawing up a new federal constitution and a legal framework for democratization was being jeopardized by " autonomous attempts " at constitutional reform . |
| 28 | More than ever is it apparent that Jack Brymer 's beautifully played long solo clarinet cadenza was recorded separately from the rest of the score and in a slightly different acoustic , but this is only a very slight distraction . |
| 29 | Having got a rough draft of a solution , now write it out neatly and in a logically developed manner so that you will be able to read and understand your solution in 6 months time . |
| 30 | It must be observed that only with difficulty and in a highly tentative manner can one find common ground between the theories discussed here ; in this conversation the participants are talking past one another . |