Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from . |
| 2 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 3 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
| 4 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 5 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point can be proved by starting the officer 's or the warden 's evidence by ‘ I am a police constable ( or traffic warden ) in such and such a police force and I was in uniform ’ . |
| 6 | McDowell 's excessively subtle thesis teeters on the brink of the view that ‘ This is red ’ means ‘ This looks red to standard observers ’ and ‘ This is good ’ means ‘ This appeals in such and such a way to a normal person ’ . |
| 7 | A power that had been delegated previously is therefore removed , usually in quite a small way , by an instruction that in such and such a case the matter is to be referred upwards . |
| 8 | There 's some people send us money and say , I 've read in such and such a paper , erm somebody send it from Chesterfield the there their paper there , and they send us ten pounds or something and erm you know erm you never know how the fruits er . |
| 9 | Why have n't you sold the shares in such and such a company ? ’ |
| 10 | Saying what they 're in er erm erm , so look , and wa watch so and so very carefully Jack I 've got him in such and such a race . |
| 11 | And if they were n't properly done , you 'd tell the forewoman that that was n't in such and such a coach in compartment was needing under the seats were needing cleaning . |
| 12 | And after that it 's , it 's partly systematic , that you discover more organisations and you go and look for them , and it 's partly luck , that erm you drop into a library or you meet someone who says ‘ Oh , did you know that erm there are these papers in , in such and such a library ? ’ |
| 13 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 14 | We have seen in this chapter how , in less than half a century , man 's view of the universe , formed over millennia , has been transformed . |
| 15 | Over the radio we hear him snorting around , and we get too much scratching from when his jacket material rubs against the mike , but in less than half a minute he emerges onto the main road . |