Example sentences of "in [adj] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In total one can only marvel at the numerous stations opened in the 1980s and it is pleasing to note that many more are in the pipeline . |
| 2 | In vain she may cry , as Gregor Samsa does to his parents , sister and employer , that the same person is there inside , looking out in the same way at the world . |
| 3 | For a long time he discussed with his lords in private what should be done with me . |
| 4 | Jessica had exploded publicly , but in private he might not be able to summon up the words . |
| 5 | In private it would seem that he was becoming increasingly fixated on the idea of a Third World War . |
| 6 | On the one hand you could give it your best shot on the decriminalisation of homosexuality , on the liberalising of legislation in relation to condoms and on the introduction of divorce legislation — all of which in private you would acknowledge as being desirable if not essential . |
| 7 | No doubt , having aired these feelings well in public he will be exerting pressure behind the scenes to ensure there is no further need to repeat them in open audience . |
| 8 | If a person is searched in public he can not be required to remove anything other than his coat , jacket or gloves . |
| 9 | In public he could be magisterial . |
| 10 | It was a horrible sound , in German one would say tuten , hooting — like a ship 's foghorn . |
| 11 | The argument that in English one can theoretically address others without revealing status , on which some of Lyons ' claims for the ‘ objectivity ’ of the language rest , is not in fact readily subscribed to by linguists . |
| 12 | The McCormick organisation has not been slow to seize on this fact and in future one might suppose that the Hierarchy will have learned from this . |
| 13 | In warm I might give my hair a wash . |
| 14 | In Japanese one must here say the equivalent of I go . |
| 15 | In Ata'i one might note the careers of six scholars as exceptions , in three of which the subjects changed careers under rather special circumstances , while in the other three Ata'i merely notes the change without comment . |
| 16 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 17 | Jean Stubbs does the same for the 60s in Like We Used To Be ( Macmillan , £11.95 ) bringing to life the world of Flower Power and pot , contraception and the Beatles . |
| 18 | and they kept I was in stiff I could hardly move them I mean if I touched them now I mean that one 's not too bad I ca n't touch that one very much when you can see them , my scars and all there If I touch that , that 'll be very gingerly ach aches like hell ! |
| 19 | In abstract they may admire and be excited by them , but their day-to-day preference is for women who want to please them and do n't make too much of a fuss . |
| 20 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at the committee stage of the Finance Bill or when Peter Lilley , the Social Security Secretary , makes his announcement uprating benefits in the autumn . |
| 21 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at a later stage . |
| 22 | If the Defendants pay your legal costs in full you will be refunded any contributions that you have made . |
| 23 | In short it should foster acceptance of a single data exchange medium for each broad category of device ( e.g. exchangeable disk , cartridge tape ) . |
| 24 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 25 | Other crops were grown , mainly for cattle fodder ; fertility of soil varies ; but in general one can say that the area producing corn ( and in wine-growing areas , especially south of the Alps , wine ) is a rough test of population . |
| 26 | Yes , yes , I think in , I think in general one can certainly say that the more , and this touches on what said about personality types if a personality has a strongly developed superego themselves , they 're likely to be very independent , sometimes to the point of arrogance . |
| 27 | In general we may assume that , in a particular social context , only one role is taken by an individual at one particular time . |
| 28 | unc It is apparent from the first that the vector elements are changing sign ; so we do not reduce a homologous element to unity ( though in general we might periodically remove a power of 10 ) . |
| 29 | It may happen that the indifference curve is tangent to the c 1 c 2 frontier at G ( the golden rule ) , but in general we would expect to find a situation such as P in Fig. 8–3 where ( as drawn ) . |
| 30 | In general we could surmise some possible causes : lack of clear guidance either in ‘ help routines ’ within the program or as printed instructions in the documentation accompanying the program — lack of preparation , ie , reading the documentation , which may suggest the demands are too high for most teachers ( teacher 's guides are rarely read ) — poor ‘ driving system ’ within the actual program , ie , the central organization of the system does not match teachers ' needs — poor ‘ driving system ’ that either confuses the teacher through its complexity or , at the other extreme , is not flexible enough for him to achieve the flow of his planned lesson — poor ‘ driving system ’ that interrupts the presentation of relevant displays with detailed control instructions on the screen . |