Example sentences of "[coord] in [adj] [pers pn] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You stink like a sow , ’ the Prince continued in English , ‘ you 've got thighs like a grenadier , your tits are greasy , and in short you are a typical Belgian and I hate you . ’ |
| 2 | Sharks have huge oily livers , which increase buoyancy , but in general they are obliged to keep swimming to provide enough lift to avoid sinking ; though some species , in practice , are happy to rest on the bottom . |
| 3 | Giant tortoises in the past have existed on continents or quasi-continents ( both on South America and Madagascar ) but in general they are island animals . |
| 4 | Features of the first type are almost universally found in adult speech to children , but in general they are not found to be associated with variation in the children 's rate of learning ( Newport , Gleitman and Gleitman , 1977 ; Cross , 1978 ; Ellis , 1978 ) . |
| 5 | But in private we are comfortable living with ourselves — we just do n't always admit it to ourselves . |
| 6 | We do accuse the Liberal Democrats of jumping on the bandwagon at a late stage , but in this they are running true to form and they are confusing the issue by doing their own irrelevant thing . |