Example sentences of "[adv prt] in an [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is moving up and down in an ever increasing tempo . |
| 2 | She found herself caught up in an intensely speculative gaze . |
| 3 | A block of classification numbers usually appears to provide fairly precise demarcation lines ( though even here the inconsistencies of classification schemes may lead to some difficulties — undesirable elements turning up in an otherwise homogenous subject block ) . |
| 4 | One night about a month ago Tod woke up in an unusually desperate condition , half clothed , in fact , and with everything intolerably slewing around him — as if the bedroom was moored to a loosening capstan inside his gut , where his secret moans . |
| 5 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
| 6 | An attacker can be quite literally tied up in an excruciatingly painful arm twist in seconds . |
| 7 | Despite being caught up in an almost mystical trance , Laura had not entirely forgotten that she was n't the only person swimming in the ocean . |
| 8 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 9 | He was a man of simple tastes who had a down-to-earth view of life that he passed on in an almost unconscious way with an innate goodness that is found among the local pillars of the community who never stray far from their birthplace . |
| 10 | On the 25th March 1993 Mr Howard updated the DoE guideline to planners thus ‘ it would be against the national interest to refuse planning permission for the extension of economic indigenous coal where the development can be carried out in an environmentally acceptable way . |
| 11 | The connections were , of course , the Red Army : after 18 months of disastrous and brutal reforms , carried out in an overly reckless spirit because the PDPA leaders believed the Russians would always bale them out , Moscow decided in late 1979 that it had had enough . |
| 12 | WOMEN 'S monthly magazines are battling it out in an extremely competitive market . |
| 13 | .0 A SECOND successive goalless draw saw England through to the World Cup finals here yesterday , when Poland practically burned themselves out in an often scintillating hour and yet fanned an ember in the last minute when Ryszard Tarasiewicz 's shot struck Peter Shilton 's crossbar . |
| 14 | Then take back the cards and set them out in an apparently random fashion and challenge a person to play you at pairs . |
| 15 | He painted not the general , but the particular ; not the nude , but the naked , thus bringing sex back in an especially embarrassing way . |
| 16 | Take the moment in the ‘ Pantomime ’ from part three where Pan/Daphnis declares his love for Syrinx/Chloé ( fig. 173 : Rattle , track 12 , 0′53″ ) : Abbado 's LSO strings slide around in an appallingly sticky manner here , whereas Rattle 's declaration is whispered , tender and somehow delightfully aware that this is ‘ play ’ within a play ; as is his treatment of the same passage forte a few bars on ( at 1′44″ ) , you can sense Pan 's mock desperation as Syrinx disappears among the reeds — it is a deliberately exaggerated gesture ( back of hand against forehead ? ) and very amusing . |
| 17 | This came about in an equally haphazard fashion . |