Example sentences of "in a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ( We saw in Chapter One how some thinkers have advocated utilitarianism in a consciously attitudinist spirit . ) |
2 | She even broke into his home and , dressed in a see-though negligee , waited for him . |
3 | He threw out his hands in a someday gesture . |
4 | This can be done successfully , but requires a tank large enough to provide open habitat for the other fish ( as well as the rocks for the Mbuna ) and that the Mbuna do not outnumber the others — Mbuna are far more boisterous and a small number of Aulonacaras in a predominantly Mbuna tank tend to be scared all the time , even though rarely actually attacked . |
5 | A diagram can be used to depict the links between settlements and the various land uses which have been discussed , together with the possibility of distant resources , in a predominantly subsistence economy ( Fig. 59 ) . |
6 | In a largely market economy , individualistic values predominate . |
7 | Are you one of those in a completely dead-end job ? |
8 | The Class 40 , dressed in a never-never livery of rail blue with all yellow cabs , large BR logo and carrying a might-have-been number 40 445 , was facing south — held stationary by the unblinking red eye of a four-aspect colour light signal , newly erected at the Manchester end of Platform Three . |
9 | When it was time for the newly-weds to say goodbye , Anna behaved in a most un-Romany manner by flinging her arms about Seb and kissing him . |
10 | To each other , what Julia had heard Canon Wheeler describe as ‘ the senior clergy ’ were comradely in a slightly country cricket club way . |
11 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
12 | This is much less often commented upon , probably because he mentions it in a rather throwaway fashion , losing it in a section almost entirely devoted to the argument that noblemen should receive the same punishments as people of the lower orders . |
13 | And that is , when , I ca n't remember what it 's called , and erm when the sex cells are made exactly half of an individual 's genes go into each , and when sex cells er come together in a fertilized exactly half of each parent 's genes are fitted together , so that 's completely fair , well almost completely fair , because there are a few genes outside the nucleus that only get they 're , they 're in a rather minority . |
14 | I was n't a particularly happy person at the time ; lonely , in a rather dead-end job and with few personal relationships . |
15 | If one needed a hotter oven , one simply flicked a switch which directed some extra heat in a downwards direction . |
16 | At this stage he can either pull with both hands sharply in a downwards direction , taking the attacker to the floor , or simply twist his open-palm grab and convert it into an arm lock , thus causing the attacker excruciating pain . |
17 | Most live in caves or under hills and mounds in a typically village environment , farming blue-skinned cattle . |
18 | But in a typically maverick comment on the matter , Baden-Powell thought that if there had been an increase in juvenile crime , then this was ‘ rather a promising sign ’ . |
19 | An hour had passed , the crowd was in a grumbly mood , the pit-lane a scene of chaos . |
20 | Those condemned to lose soon became irritated by the game ; and to the extent that the winners enjoyed the game , they ceased acting in a comradely spirit . |
21 | Georg , walking along beside her , his hand resting in a comradely way on her shoulder , had laughed . |
22 | In a mainly subsistence economy , the site of a particular place will be largely related to the uses of the land around to maintain the crops and animals which produce the food to sustain life . |
23 | The results will then be used to help compile a handbook for woodland managers on how to manage their woods in a dormouse-friendly way . |
24 | His observation , made in a characteristically matter of fact manner , was in no way intended as a put-down of his intellectual inheritors but simply as an indication of the fertility of that great harvest period . |
25 | There are other instances where the use of a stretch of Creole embedded in a basically London English turn serves to " upgrade " the message content of the Creole stretch . |
26 | Other notable releases in a so-so week are the debut by The Stray Cats , ‘ Runaway Boys ’ , plus merry jingles from Throbbing Gristle and Devo — and the very first record by The Sisters of Mercy , ‘ The Damage Done ’ . |
27 | Other notable releases in a so-so week are the debut by The Stray Cats , ‘ Runaway Boys ’ , plus merry jingles from Throbbing Gristle and Devo — and the very first record by The Sisters of Mercy , ‘ The Damage Done ’ . |
28 | The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man . |
29 | His idea was to tell his story ‘ in a perfectly matter of fact and sober manner ’ ( Willett 1978 , p. 154 ) . |
30 | The singers appear in a suitably concert platform balance ( not always the case , even in live recordings ) and the orchestra are set in a natural spread , only occasionally seeming to be boosted a little by the engineers . |