Example sentences of "in an [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A handkerchief drenched in vinegar was often all that could be done but he added , ‘ I seldom enter an hospital or prison before breakfast ; in an offensive room I avoid drawing my breath deeply ; and on my return sometimes wash my mouth and hands . ’ |
| 2 | In an immediate sense it was clear that local authorities were ill-equipped to begin the type of prosecutions purity groups were pressing for . |
| 3 | In an emotional reunion they hugged each other as West Brom 's chairman Bert Millichip told the assembled press that Johnson 's career at the Hawthorns was secure . |
| 4 | According to Geoffrey le Baker , the bishop first of all called upon Edward to abdicate , and in an emotional scene he agreed to do so . |
| 5 | In an emotional interview he spoke of his fear of the condition and his worry that he will never work again . |
| 6 | In an M-tense system we can easily distinguish past ( events completed prior to CT ) , from present ( events whose span includes CT ) , from future ( events succeeding CT ) ; we can further distinguish points from spans ( Lyons , 1977a : 683 ) ; and we can also make first approximations to complex tenses like the Pluperfect , by representing events that are prior to other events , which are themselves prior to CT ( Reichenbach , 1947 : 288ff ; see also Allwood , Andersson & Dahl , 1977 : 121ff ) . |
| 7 | In an actual campaign we would research these approaches with trial groups to see what changes need to be made . |
| 8 | In order to be able to understand the situation of the visually handicapped child in an ordinary class it is relevant to be reminded of the function of the eye and the visual system , since without such basic information the demands which such a child faces are unlikely to be understood . |
| 9 | In an impressive performance he delivered enough of substance , together with a dose of populism , to satisfy his side of the Commons . |
| 10 | Although these techniques developed by Sibbald et al ( 25 ) using a computer programme to determine the optimum allocation of land to agriculture and forestry make it possible to reach a more objective decision about the allocation of land to agriculture or forestry in an integrated scheme we , as yet , know little or nothing about the impact of agriculture or forest development on rural communities . |
| 11 | where a legally aided person fails in an interlocutory matter it often occurs 6 that an order for costs will not be enforced without leave of the court . |
| 12 | If that income is lawfully accumulated in an irrevocable settlement it can not be taxed on the settlor . |
| 13 | In an average year he and his 17-strong team of volunteers attend 150 incidents , mostly cliff rescues . |
| 14 | In an average year it 's about six to eight weeks actually expeditioning . |
| 15 | If we continue to use the countryside in an exploitative manner it will run out . |
| 16 | In an odd way she seemed too solid , too highly coloured . |
| 17 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 18 | We found no evidence to support previous suggestions of an excess of cancer in men treated with atenolol , but in an observational study we can not discount the possibility of confounding factors . |
| 19 | It 's not a problem when it 's in the open air but it can seep into buildings and when it becomes trapped in an enclosed area it 's potentially lethal . |
| 20 | In an official capacity they dined with European leaders at the Edinburgh Summit . |
| 21 | If he then varies or strays from the agreement in an unsatisfactory way you are only asking for trouble if you do n't act promptly for full recovery . |
| 22 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 23 | Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst . |
| 24 | However , this does not mean that in an appropriate case they will not be relevant matters for a court to take into account , especially where items of equipment are complex and require specialist knowledge and materials for repair . |
| 25 | A formal pool often serves a different function from an informal one , for in an appropriate setting it is often used to mirror the garden around it . |
| 26 | In the former , Lord Macmillan hesitated ‘ to hold that in these days and in an industrial community it was a non-natural use of land to build a factory on it and conduct there the manufacture of explosives . ’ |
| 27 | In an eloquent speech he dwelt on the reluctance of the adult deaf to attend divine service or to receive moral instruction and on the " appalling " lack of religious knowledge amongst the younger generation . |
| 28 | Used like this in an open-end swimfeeder you can feed the swim with the same accuracy and effectiveness as you can with swimfeeder-fed maggots . |
| 29 | I can not say that in an administrative context we shall take up every item that appears in the new clauses , at least not in the way that is implied . |
| 30 | In an English village it would have been converted into something quaint , selling teas and postcards . |