Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The frequency with which Creole utterances are met with laughter in my conversational data is remarkable . |
| 2 | Occasionally , when pulling away in first gear , the engine in my 1971 Series III will die unless the clutch is depressed quickly . |
| 3 | An interesting additional observation was to find in my front-room data nonce nonsense formations , such as thingummycallit , and several idiosyncratic items , such as gobsocket and jiminycricket . |
| 4 | The gearbox in my 1973 Series III two and a quarter petrol is noisy and jumps out of third gear . |
| 5 | I just had to put in my ten pence , dial without thinking and see what happened . |
| 6 | Experimental evidence for the consistency of bond enthalpies over a number of compounds is provided by the standard molar enthalpies of combustion of alkanes in their homologous series ( see section 17.1 ) . |
| 7 | India were reduced to 71-6 in their second innings , a lead of just eight runs by the close of the third day in the third Test at Port Elizabeth . |
| 8 | They were 32-1 at the close after bowling Australia out for 196 in their second innings . |
| 9 | Mark Greatbatch hit 80 not out as they made 163–1 in their second innings . |
| 10 | All-rounder Dipak Patel took a Test-best 6–50 as New Zealand routed Zimbabwe for 137 in their second innings in Harare yesterday to win the second Test by 177 runs and take the series 1–0 . |
| 11 | He scored 109 as the West Indies reached 225–3 in their second innings after being dismissed for only 183 and following-on . |
| 12 | And now England could have a fight on their hands in their second innings on a pitch beginning to help the slow bowlers . |
| 13 | Indeed , Hartland and Wright almost carried New Zealand to stumps without loss in their second innings , and probably would have done so but for a debatable bat-pad decision against the former . |
| 14 | In their second innings the Kiwis declared at 469 for 9 , with Dempster and ‘ Curly ’ Page both scoring hundreds and Blunt making 96 . |
| 15 | In their second innings , Somerset were put out for 58 , with only Lionel Palairet reaching double figures and 10 of their total being byes . |
| 16 | Horan and de Kretser cornered some of those upper cases for Ceylon in Colombo on January 7 when they mowed down the visitors in their second innings for 46 and inflicted a ‘ pair ’ of ducks on Waddy himself . |
| 17 | The son of the legendary Derek and himself a former Gloucestershire player , Shackleton also took 5 for 13 to bowl out Cheshire for 80 in their second innings as they lost to Dorset at Dorchester . |
| 18 | In reply the tourists are sixteen ( 16 ) for one in their second innings . |
| 19 | Cricket now and Kent have posed problems for Gloucestershire in their match at Canterbury scoring a hundred and six for one ( 106-1 ) in their second innings . |
| 20 | At the close of a topsy-turvy third day England were 287 runs ahead at 210 for five in their second innings . |
| 21 | And on the bowling side he admitted : ‘ Peter Such had a dream debut in helpful conditions in the first innings , but we then struggled to make inroads and our bowlers did not look penetrative in their second innings . |
| 22 | Middlesex forfeited their first innings and Durham were 11 without loss in their second innings when bad light ended play . |
| 23 | Yet it was all in a losing cause because England still finished the fourth day of the second Test 43 runs in arrears at 231 for eight in their second innings . |
| 24 | No doubt it will have given satisfaction to the chairman of BR and his chief executive as they sit , to quote your article , ‘ in their new headquarters building next to Euston Station … ( feeling ) … confident about the future in a way few other British executives might , notwithstanding the recession ’ and waiting it would seem , either for rescue in the form of ‘ more generous ’ support for rail from the present government ( ‘ always mindful that its majority is dependent of MPs representing the London commuter belt ’ ) or , conversely , a doubled grant from a future Labour administration . |
| 25 | The two got togged up to publicise the first programme in their new series of Watchdog tomorrow night ( BBC1 , 7.30pm ) which investigates the cost of school uniforms . |
| 26 | THREE masked thugs trussed up businessman Tom Hartley and his wife Helen at their home and drove off in their new £60,000 Mercedes with valuables worth £250,000 . |
| 27 | Once again , investors who put in their minimum £5,000 , will get 90 per cent or 95 per cent of any increase in the value of the top 100 companies in the portfolio . |
| 28 | Copy and complete these panels ( REMEMBER In adding and subtracting , decimal points must be in line to keep numbers in their correct places. ) unc |
| 29 | First day of three : Durham are 119–0 in their first innings against Oxford University BROWNING was probably right in suggesting that England is the place to be when April comes — but not as far as cricketers are concerned . |
| 30 | His spell capped a great day for the Aussies after captain Allan Border ( 110 ) and Mark Waugh ( 112 ) had steered them to 395 in their first innings . |