Example sentences of "[subord] in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was more imitation ice than in The Ancient Mariner , more gilt than in a psychiatrist 's office , more rolled gold than in Acapulco . |
| 2 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 3 | A slight deviation from the walking stance quickly puts a student into the taekwondo fighting stance , in which the body is slightly inclined to present less of an open target and the fists are held high as in a boxer 's pose . |
| 4 | The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way . |
| 5 | The strong forces between the particles would correspond to pieces of string that went between other bits of string , as in a spider 's web . |