Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Richard Morris , Paul Rayner and Kevin Greenhill , from High Wycombe , Bucks , were trying to win the Chief Scout Award badge when the rain forced them to shelter in a tiny tent they were carrying . |
| 32 | Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover . |
| 33 | ‘ Because they proved he 'd stolen the letters , ’ said Charlotte in a dull voice she scarcely recognized as her own . |
| 34 | You 'll probably laugh , but , well , we thought we could help each other to be good — in a spiritual way I mean . |
| 35 | Well , yes , it can be that easy if you are only moving fairly slowly , but bear in mind that to stop in a reasonable distance you have to hold on the control long enough to raise the nose and apply a braking force . |
| 36 | singing in a strange voice he did not recognise . |
| 37 | God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends . |
| 38 | The deep sea-blue eyes were unreadable , yet in a strange way she felt pinned to the spot by them , like a butterfly trapped and doomed to die . |
| 39 | In a strange way she was n't even surprised . |
| 40 | But in a strange way he has done wonders for our social life . |
| 41 | She nodded , and in a strange way I suddenly felt outnumbered . |
| 42 | In a strange way I felt almost embarrassed that such things were happening in my name . |
| 43 | In a strange way it can actually contribute to the success of many marriages , for not every woman wants to spend her life with an eternal Romeo . |
| 44 | In a strong wind he must refuse to move until sufficient additional crew arrive to handle the glider safely . |
| 45 | Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away . |
| 46 | In a fitful sleep I dreamt I was swimming through drowned villages . |
| 47 | If you are in a violent relationship you can get additional legal protection . |
| 48 | In a hasty landing he hit a bump and cracked a mainspar . |
| 49 | ‘ I 'm in a deep hole I dug by being deep ’ ) . |
| 50 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 51 | When kept as individuals in a mixed community they can bully other smaller species but they are in the main more peaceable than the average marine fish . |
| 52 | As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear . |
| 53 | Arthur Scargill put it that ‘ Whilst we exist in a capitalist society we have to extract from that society the highest possible reward for the labour power that we sell , whilst at the same time trying to change the society . ’ |
| 54 | However , the content through which these mathematical skills are taught has a set of messages all of its own and because we live in a capitalist society we can easily be unaware of these messages — about the exploitation of labour , the sexism , the inequalities based on racism and social class — that are all a part of the ideology of capitalism . |
| 55 | In a capitalist society you can not escape the impact of money on your own welfare . |
| 56 | In a seminal article he described the " characteristic irregularity of labour patterns before the coming of large-scale machine- powered industry " . |
| 57 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 58 | In a similar way we sometimes need to remind ourselves that young readers have ideas that are worth consideration , and that the administratively-convenient solution to a problem may not be the most valuable one . |
| 59 | In a similar way we can first examine ray average costs and returns to scale along a ray . |
| 60 | In a similar way we can mock an accent or dialect , projecting a stereotyped figure more in the manner that stage actors do than in the manner that mere quotation provides … |