Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " 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 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 3 | In Scottish legal history he is remembered also as the Judge who presided at the trial of Burke and Hare , the Edinburgh body-snatchers who turned to murder . |
| 4 | But although such classifications may sometimes be useful in guiding empirical research they do not seem to me to take up directly the most important questions , which are those concerning the significance of social movements in the process of reproduction and transformation of total social systems . |
| 5 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Though the novel is not the sole domain of either narrative or fiction , in contemporary Western culture it exemplifies both . |
| 7 | Always an independent spirit , Rita nevertheless acknowledges certain strong influences in her movement career — Edith , Molly , Rita Horton , and in Coburg , Jutta Holler-von der Trenck ; she believes that her feeling for the importance of expression in movement , and her interest in the choreographing of taped music derive from her contact with Christa Haring , whose classes in Contemporary Dramatic Dance she attended . |
| 8 | The claim is implicit in the child 's own social interactions and unless we are blind or acting in chronic bad faith we can do no other than acknowledge it . |
| 9 | Another is the ease with which it is assumed that in actual democratic politics it should be the majority in each nation-state which has the right to decide on all issues . |
| 10 | ‘ And these poor fellows , ’ Mr O'Hara added , ‘ they 're in real bad trouble I 'd say , would n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | In standard economic theory it is argued that regulation is required if market failures occur . |
| 12 | Unpredictable escape patterns of this kind have been called ‘ protean ’ defence systems because like the figure of Proteus in ancient Greek mythology they repeatedly change their shape . |
| 13 | In capitalist industrial society they include the relationship between employer and employee and the various rights of the two parties . |
| 14 | While the top three or four companies now seem to be in reasonable financial shape it is the medium-sized firms in the top thirty that are feeling the pressure . |
| 15 | The rounded leafy plants do best in fertile , moist soil with some sun and shade ; in poor dry soil they become small and straggling . |
| 16 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 17 | In full diplomatic uniform he rode to the palace on a richly caparisoned mule sent to him by Menelik : in Abyssinia mules were more highly esteemed than horses . |
| 18 | If we were to express the interrelation of identity and participation in classical Hindu terminology we might say that while knowledge , jñāna , leads to action , karma , it is equally true that action leads to knowledge . |
| 19 | in big red writing it said snacks , and one er , I could n't make out what |
| 20 | In particular one thing I 'm dealing with is black women going out with white men , which is a big issue now . |
| 21 | They would be signs of an unprofessional subjectivism and impressionism ; in recent radical discourse they indicate an undesirable mystification . |
| 22 | If you can do an in wide-out close turn it is a bonus . |
| 23 | But you , in modern standard English you would n't begin a second sentence with and . |
| 24 | In modern clinical psychoanalysis it manifests itself as that part of the ego which represents a critical self-awareness which is both censorious and exhortatory , being the representative of standards , ideals , commands and prohibitions . |
| 25 | A.D.A.S. are once quoted as saying our land would grow nothing but Rhododendrons and Heather ( and when their advice was free , we would call them out and go away and do the opposite ) but in true pioneering spirit we have proved them all wrong ! |
| 26 | In silent single file they walked down the narrow corridor , Lisa staring at his back through eyes that were barely focused . |