Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In normal fashion we will be staging music in the Live Hall , and the weekend will see performances by some amazing artists . |
| 2 | Finally and in total conclusion I must tell you what happened when we took Adam to a specialist to find out if he had a particular familial complaint . |
| 3 | In civvy street she would have found it hard to find a fellow to chat with and so she likely considered the war a godsend . |
| 4 | In a simple case , we might have the following key set : These thirty-four records need only 34 storage positions , but if they were stored in self-indexing form they would take up 359 storage positions , and there would be five gaps of 91 , 1 , 1 , 94 and 138 positions respectively . |
| 5 | In broad outline we can designate the Asiatic , the ancient , the feudal , and the modern bourgeois modes of production as progressive epochs in the economic formation of society . |
| 6 | Wood will not come to much harm in moist heat below about 140°C. but , of course , in dry heat it will soon crack due to shrinkage . |
| 7 | Even in private conversation he would explain how his client could not possibly have broken into the house in the way of which he was accused , because he was far too drunk at the time , and so on . |
| 8 | The lesson to be derived was one of moderation : " Not only in the exercise of political power should men of prominence be considerate towards those of low estate , but also in private life they should — if they are sensible — treat their slaves gently . |
| 9 | In private practice you could provide services for large , corporate clients , or for private individuals and small businesses . |
| 10 | The Report declared that ‘ the country can not afford this wastage , humanly or economically speaking , ’ and therefore ‘ in human justice and in economic self-interest we ought as a country to give that help ’ to working-class youngsters who under-achieve at school . |
| 11 | In an imperfect capital market it need not be the same for all firms , and in an economy subject to cyclical fluctuations in economic activity it need not be the same over time . |
| 12 | Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him . |
| 13 | In each case we may trace from them important effects on learning in schools today on the curriculum plans , on policy and programmes for teacher training and , most significant , on the attitudes of teachers themselves and of those who train them . |
| 14 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
| 15 | In each case we can choose a scale above which the material may be considered homogeneous , but below which the structure needs to be considered . |
| 16 | In each case it may be possible to print out target costs against each subsection and therefore quantify any profit or loss . |
| 17 | In each case it may be possible to provide additional practical and problem-solving skills by integrating either one or both of the following into the programmes ( this could be particularly important for those students wishing to enter Higher Education ) : |
| 18 | Lord Morton of Henryton commenting on that example said that in each case it would be for the Commissioners to make a finding as to whether the income in question was or was not paid to or for the benefit of the child by virtue or in consequence of the settlement . |
| 19 | The same point can be made about each of the examples in [ 13 – 16 ] : in each case in other words introduces a summary rather than a paraphrase , and , not surprisingly , in each case it could be replaced by in short . |
| 20 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 21 | In each case I will stop the film every five seconds . |
| 22 | In each case I will stop the film every five seconds . |
| 23 | In each award you must complete four sections . |
| 24 | Just like a dance and they sung and they had just in each station you could hear them in Papa Stronsay we could hear them singing and dancing . |
| 25 | By having a very limited range of values in each compartment you can quickly locate the components you require , with minimal wear on the components . |
| 26 | In each gear you could tell the carburettors were better balanced after 12,000 miles as the slower increments always favoured the later set of figures . |
| 27 | Given a clear run , with plenty of other values , they would almost certainly have played in 3NT , but if an adversary has overcalled in that suit they will be apprehensive of the no-trump game in case there are five immediate losers . |
| 28 | In that instant she could happily have hit him . |
| 29 | In that sense they might be seen to be moving in a different direction from the strongly centralist initiatives in connection with the national curriculum . |
| 30 | And in that sense it would be obviously grossly unfair . |