Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you what I 'm gon na put in I 'm gon na put in fifty P you . |
| 3 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 4 | In wounded puzzlement I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after Dunkirk , when Leslie had referred to the projected formation of a parachute corps , and to service in it as ‘ absolute certain death ’ in a ‘ suicide squad ’ . |
| 5 | Again , he had had to resign in humiliating circumstances.So you can see why this time he is so anxious to avoid knocking copy . |
| 6 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 7 | In normal circumstances it is difficult to know the limits of one 's own capability , let alone those of the organization . |
| 8 | The old man explained his views on the matter afterwards to a Christian friend , ‘ For an ordinary man in normal circumstances it is enough that he believe faithfully in God . |
| 9 | In normal circumstances you would know this or be able to find it out , but this is still only a short case study and we have n't included it . |
| 10 | Wycliffe felt sure that in normal circumstances she was a cheerful woman , more ready to laugh than cry . |
| 11 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 12 | ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’ |
| 13 | Even in normal society it is boring and , after a while , meaningless to trace everything to a common source , especially when the detail is elaborate . |
| 14 | In normal fashion we will be staging music in the Live Hall , and the weekend will see performances by some amazing artists . |
| 15 | In normal spirits he seemed to need only two steps to cross a room . |
| 16 | Pseudoephedrine ( see p 317 ) can produce euphoria and delusions , if taken in very large doses , and even in normal doses it may cause nightmares and behavioural problems in children . |
| 17 | Finally and in total conclusion I must tell you what happened when we took Adam to a specialist to find out if he had a particular familial complaint . |
| 18 | When a concerted and invasive effort has been made to find acid fast rods in sarcoid tissue they seem to be present , and acid fast bacteria without cell walls and tuberculostearic acid have also been isolated from lesions of patients with sarcoidosis . |
| 19 | The obvious comparison is with housework : if women want to eat and live in pleasant surroundings they have to cook and clean . |
| 20 | It could be argued that anyone who is idiot enough to send a cheque for thousands of pounds to a salesman of shares in unquoted companies he has never heard of deserves to lose it all . |
| 21 | In strong winds we do n't want beginners to be overpowered and so we reduce the sail area , that 's known as reefing . |
| 22 | In strong syllables it is comparatively easy to distinguish from , from , but in weak syllables the difference is not so clear . |
| 23 | In strong wind it was as nimble as one might wish and had exceptional stability at the extreme sides of the wind window . |
| 24 | In monetary terms it made a lot more sense to extend episode numbers within a serial , thereby getting more television hours with fewer changes in location . |
| 25 | Although this factor may be difficult to assess in monetary terms it may be influential in the make or buy decision . |
| 26 | Back in civvy street he landed a job at the Strand Cornerhouse in London ; from there a number of jobs with skilled confectioners allowed him to accumulate the experience needed to go it alone . |
| 27 | In civvy street she would have found it hard to find a fellow to chat with and so she likely considered the war a godsend . |
| 28 | In a simple case , we might have the following key set : These thirty-four records need only 34 storage positions , but if they were stored in self-indexing form they would take up 359 storage positions , and there would be five gaps of 91 , 1 , 1 , 94 and 138 positions respectively . |
| 29 | In professional practice it is the duty of the advocate to call the attention of the court to all decisions that are in any way against the submissions he makes ; but this may not be possible in moot conditions . |
| 30 | In broad outline we can designate the Asiatic , the ancient , the feudal , and the modern bourgeois modes of production as progressive epochs in the economic formation of society . |