Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In present-day western society we have cultural goals of material success : plenty of money , a big house , flash cars , pretty girl/handsome boy , for example . |
| 2 | In normal spoken language there are often clear pragmatic constraints on the choice of particular syntactic forms . |
| 3 | In 2.3 five-cylinder form it stands at £19.247 ( Quattro £22,125 ) . |
| 4 | None of this is intended to suggest , of course , that in each individual case there are certain essential properties which are sufficient to explain the numerical identity of the particular in question . |
| 5 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 6 | In each specific case it is impossible to determine the exact line of distinction between faith and faith plus , between our faith in God and our faith in other men . |
| 7 | Table 6.2 shows the proportion of the sample of men in each social class who reported helping their wives in various tasks once a week . |
| 8 | In that final settlement he can be influenced by , without necessarily even remembering , every relevant experience throughout the whole of his life . |
| 9 | In that ascetic age he earned a strange renown for his childlessness ; it was attributed , rightly or wrongly , to celibacy , and this was regarded as a sign of virtue . |
| 10 | In that unhappy mood he went to Paris to meet the designer Balanchine had stipulated , Dorothea Tanning , who followed the surrealist manner she had previously applied to one of Balanchine 's own ballets , Night Shadow . |
| 11 | On February 6 , 1958 , Gregg saw many friends and team-mates die in that fateful crash which stunned the nation . |
| 12 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 13 | Airtime goes beyond packing to offer general time management advice : ‘ Do n't , ’ it says , in that authoritative tone it likes to adopt , ‘ clutter your memory with non-consequential facts . ’ |
| 14 | This true story of a young Ayrshire doctor starts in that vast country we know as Russia , 275 years ago , during the reign of Czar Peter the Great . |
| 15 | Then display it in the nice rosewood frame above the mantelpiece in that new home you 're now too poor to furnish ? |
| 16 | and rise and fall about twelve feet , they tell you in that new book you 've got there , the rise and fall . |
| 17 | … You use the same phrase in a new context and embedded in that new context it acquires a completely different meaning . |
| 18 | It 's rather like DIY in that one day you may need a power saw to cut up some timber , the next a hand saw for some precision work . |
| 19 | And in that one house we used to do thirty thousand or more — we 'll call it thirty thousand — in three hangings . |
| 20 | All the grown-ups smiled in that boring way they have when little girls are being exceptionally sick-making . |
| 21 | But rain has fallen here , too , in that arbitrary way which makes life so unpredictable . |
| 22 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 23 | Graveney insists that Hick should go back to basics , and remain in that classic position he is in at the start of the bowler 's run-up — to stand sideways-on , bat on the ground , knees slightly bent , feet about shoulder width apart , and head up and still with both eyes level . |
| 24 | In that endless moment she was truly a part of Rune , sharing his strength of mind and body , his former pain and his present pleasure . |
| 25 | Even in that scant garment he was very hot and sweaty . |
| 26 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 27 | It was only to teach her a little lesson that I 'd added some nail-varnish remover to the ephedrine in that nasal spray she carried around everywhere . |
| 28 | Well why ca n't she do that two weeks marking in that first week she needs to unwind ? |
| 29 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 30 | ‘ Independent schools have great problems with control of pupils using illegal substances because our pupils are in that socio-economic group which makes them attractive to drug-pushers . ’ |