Example sentences of "to [noun sg] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that water is available is used to advantage in a simple water-scrubber for cleaning the gas . |
| 2 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 3 | Swinton 's idea for three companies was also presented to parliament in a White Paper , but the general election of July 1945 brought Labour to power before any of the wartime government 's plans could be implemented . |
| 4 | Many constitutional lawyers have thought that the respect in which the problem differs under the constitution of the United Kingdom is that if a power of legislation be denied to Parliament in a particular respect , then an intolerable hiatus would exist in the legislative power — there would be some laws that nobody could enact . |
| 5 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
| 6 | He was a striking figure with a long , dour face , the head completely shaven , his thin body clothed from head to toe in a black gown and cloak . |
| 7 | A black lacy wimple framed her beautiful white face while her splendid body was clothed from neck to toe in a pure black silk gown , the only concession to any alleviating colour being the white lace cuffs and collar and the small jewelled cross which swung from a gold chain round her neck . |
| 8 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 9 | They were ordered to camp in a swampy depression beside the Missouri which one observer suggested had been selected ‘ for the express purpose of putting an end to Chief Joseph and his band ’ . |
| 10 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 11 | We shall be looking further at this vexed question of Christian initiation and the relation of the Holy Spirit to baptism in a later chapter . |
| 12 | AN air force officer who fled Communist Cuba in a stolen MiG 23 jet fighter has snatched his wife and children to freedom in a new daredevil flight . |
| 13 | Their community was largely made up of American slaves who had fled across the border to freedom in a British territory . |
| 14 | Antrim Borough Council is setting its one mile motor racing circuit at Nutt 's Corner aside for Learner Drivers to practice in a safe and controlled environment off the public roads . |
| 15 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 16 | The ebenficial effect of this practice on activity of disease and linear growth has not been subjected to confirmation in a controlled trial . |
| 17 | Basil would get very excited at finding tadpoles and caddis worms in the Hampstead ponds but though he once took to fishing in a small stream when we were on holiday , and actually caught a small fish , which Marion cooked for his tea , he was quite unable to eat it , being stricken with remorse at its demise . |
| 18 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 19 | The exact movements vary from species to species but in a typical finch such as the chaffinch the body is turned towards the owl , the crown-feathers are raised , the legs are bent , the wings are slightly raised , and the body is jerked quickly from side to side in a crouched , bent-leg posture , while the tail flicks up and down . |
| 20 | The former had come to Chant in a derelict house in Clerkenwell ; about that there was no ambiguity . |
| 21 | Components in this context means parts of a product being held with a view to incorporation in a finished product . |
| 22 | He looked like the petrol-soaked wreck of a swan come to grief in a polluted river . |
| 23 | It moves from department to department in a pre-arranged sequence like the baton in a relay race . |
| 24 | Yet in practice justification by an imperative does not benefit from this logical advantage , is very much open to doubt ( indeed invites it , without a first principle such as Kant 's Categorical Imperative to save from appealing from imperative to imperative in an infinite regress ) , while the appeal to pleasure does not seem vulnerable to ethical scepticism at all . |
| 25 | It was possible to pay the skischool extra so that after school in the morning she would be taken to lunch in a local restaurant under supervision , then brought back to skischool in the afternoon , but for a 4-year old learning to ski for the first time to stay in skiboots all day is really very tiring . |
| 26 | The result of such a mishap is often spectacular with the eighty h.p. engine trying to wind the rubber bow back to the stern , but on this occasion the engine quickly stalled and I was left drifting helplessly in a strong wind with rope from the outboard propeller stretching from stern to bow in an inaccessible position . |
| 27 | Informal methods are merely other forms of social control allied to law in a corporate state . |
| 28 | He proved his stamina when bolting up at Newbury , but I just prefer TOP SPIN , who would have benefitted from a stronger gallop when chasing home Dare To Dream in a decent race at Lingfield . |
| 29 | Conservative plans would split it from top to bottom in a complex network of charging that pitted patients against doctors , doctors against hospitals , hospitals against charities and charities against patients . |
| 30 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |