Example sentences of "in [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from having to go over the unpleasant details of Froggy 's death yet again , I had a nasty feeling that Inspector Drew 's bright and suspicious eyes masked darker ideas about my role in Froggy 's murder . |
| 2 | Alternatively , MAS may undertake a proactive search for a client with target approach being the next logical step in MAS 's acquisition assistance . |
| 3 | The explanation for such divergent viewpoints may lie not in Osred 's reign as a particularly inauspicious period so much as in the dynastic rivalries of this time , accompanied by a failure to sustain Aldfrith 's silver coinage under Osred or his immediate successors . |
| 4 | Hargreaves continued the Sheffield pattern by mounting exhibitions by young artists in Imperial 's Consort Gallery , quality shows that soon attracted a following and that for years formed a regular feature of the London art scene . |
| 5 | Handmaids are n't allowed to answer back , so most of the book is concerned with what 's going on in Offred 's head . |
| 6 | Lyonnais des Eaux already owns the two big statutory water companies in Northumbrian 's region and is bound to have ambitions for the region as a whole . |
| 7 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 8 | A visionary at Much Wenlock , on the testimony of Boniface , proclaimed in Ceolred 's lifetime that the angels surrounding him had withdrawn their protective shield and abandoned him to demons because of the multitude of crimes he had committed . |
| 9 | It was that sort of game though … too much referee 's whistle … too many niggling fouls … it worked in United 's favour … when they won another penalty … |
| 10 | In United 's progress to the top of the First Division and to tomorrow 's final , Schmeichel has kept 23 clean sheets and on only five occasions has he been beaten more than once . |
| 11 | In Manchester , there was open speculation that Bobby Charlton , probably the most famous player in United 's history and also a director , was being lined up to take over the chairmanship after a Midani bid . |
| 12 | Bruce , who has been inspirational in United 's pursuit of their first championship in 25 years , was guilty of a reckless and needless challenge he will regret . |
| 13 | He left Forest three years ago in a £1.5m deal and although he was an immediate success in United 's midfield , the last 12 months have turned sour . |
| 14 | Two other factors may operate in Short 's favour . |
| 15 | The other weakness in Handy 's argument is that there is every possibility that demand for more education and health care will be expressed in the market place as consumers choose to buy these commodities . |
| 16 | They 're alive and implemented in Digital 's Network Application Support ( NAS ) . |
| 17 | In Memco-Med 's Patent , 2s the Patents Court had to consider whether the employer 's sales of a patented product to a single customer amounted to the creation of a benefit under section 40(1) . |
| 18 | Furthermore , it may be in Big 's interest to deliberately slow down the progress of an acquisition possibly to await the occurrence of certain events or to put pressure on the vendor . |
| 19 | There was concern in Arty 's voice — a concern that seemed to annoy his father . |
| 20 | He waved the box vaguely in Arty 's direction , extracted a cigarette , lit it and immediately started to cough . |
| 21 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 22 | To cut the dole was , in Seely 's view , essential , but ‘ this tangle can not be unravelled by any one party , or even any two , because if opposed by the third they would lose the Election and the evil would continue . ’ |
| 23 | An attempt to explain what went wrong in Æthelred 's reign must begin with the sources . |
| 24 | Although a degree of corruption was inevitable , it seems in Æthelred 's reign to have gone so far beyond what many of his subjects considered acceptable that it was their main preoccupation when they considered having him back . |
| 25 | In Æthelred 's reign those who testified to the authenticity of one disputed land transaction included the archbishop of Canterbury , a bishop , an earl and the king 's mother . |
| 26 | Conditions in England while the tax was being gathered are likely to have been grim , considering the devastation caused by the recent fighting , and that the tribute came on top of the large amounts levied in Æthelred 's reign . |
| 27 | Conditions late in Æthelred 's reign could well have resulted in such a movement , for apart from the effects of famine and enemy harrying , those landowners with dependent peasantry may often have expected them to shoulder much of the tax burden , and that burden had been particularly heavy between 1011 and 1014 . |
| 28 | In Æthelred 's reign Ramsey was patronised by Ealdorman Æthelwine of East Anglia and his relatives , Ely by Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his kin . |
| 29 | The abbey of Tavistock was burnt in 997 , and that of Cerne later despoiled by Cnut , while St Mary 's church in Exeter was seemingly destroyed in the sack of 1003 , and the nunnery at Minster-in-Thanet at some stage in Æthelred 's reign . |
| 30 | A second factor must certainly have been the challenge to Alhred from Aethelred , son of Aethelwald Moll , who was crowned in Alhred 's place ‘ with great honour ’ . |