Example sentences of "in [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Prynn left her to get on with her duties without any unusual comments ; Lady Roscarrock appeared to be her normal self , and the aunts and sisters dozed in their chairs or whispered their rosaries in much the normal way . |
| 2 | She 'd gone about this project in entirely the wrong manner . |
| 3 | Doreen realised she was going about matters in entirely the wrong way . |
| 4 | ‘ It will no doubt be in only the rare instance that a man does not consider the possibility that the woman is not consenting , and yet does not actually believe that she is . |
| 5 | I genuinely liked them as people , I loved their music , and I was in exactly the right place at the right time . |
| 6 | the sky was a beautiful blue , the sun in just the right position for the rainbows to come out of the cleft in exactly the right position photographically . |
| 7 | ‘ As far as I 'm concerned the collection is in exactly the right building . |
| 8 | If you want a better-than-equal chance of success , you 've started in exactly the right place . |
| 9 | He is in exactly the right job : streets ahead of most others in the UK in his number-crunching agility — ‘ in the country 's top 5 per cent , at least ’ , Bloch says — and ‘ unbelievably good ’ at critical reasoning , with a score of 90 . |
| 10 | Your net intercepts them when they return from feeding and you must therefore ensure that the nets are set in exactly the right place — without the rabbits being aware of your presence . |
| 11 | ‘ He is in exactly the right frame of mind to do the business . |
| 12 | Photographing food , especially in close-up , involves very controlled and precise technique — and the constant services of an expert home economist to ensure the availability of the products involved , in exactly the right state . |
| 13 | The music you need one bar of music line with those blobs which are the note heads in exactly the right places . |
| 14 | That I think you I think most people find it more difficult having to group the notes in the right , in exactly the right way . |
| 15 | As someone who has championed the cause of renewable energy since the mid-1970s , I give a warm personal welcome to my hon. Friend 's statement , which I believe to be in exactly the right direction . |
| 16 | It was to be used , in other words , in exactly the reverse way to Cézanne . |
| 17 | While these links involved the provision of some common services , they did not constitute chains in exactly the traditional newspaper sense , since the holdings were not in every case large enough to be a controlling interest . |
| 18 | Finally , consider the word " quotes " in the third sentence , and the common metaphorical senses of " trademark " ( meaning " a distinctive feature or characteristic " ) and " ammunition " ( meaning " some powerful means of support " ) ; these words introduce an element of informality — especially " quotes " , which is a marked alternative to " quotations " — which pulls the paragraph in exactly the opposite direction from the upward shift in register sought in " marital union " . |
| 19 | It is far more important to be moving forward in broadly the right directions than to be stuck still without the businesses going anywhere . |
| 20 | Well this is kind of like a sideline for us , the Game Genie Video Enhancer in not the normal kind of thing we do . |
| 21 | These problems is erm young people , using fireworks in not the proper manner . |
| 22 | the sky was a beautiful blue , the sun in just the right position for the rainbows to come out of the cleft in exactly the right position photographically . |
| 23 | Clearly , it is no use breaking the phosphate bond unless the ATP molecule is in just the right place ; otherwise the result would only be to heat things up . |
| 24 | But other workers have now shown that retinoic acid is actually present in the limb , and its concentration is graded in just the right direction . |
| 25 | Twelve minutes after the break he moved into the middle during a rare Palace break and was in just the right spot to hammer home a left-wing cross to give Palace a great victory and set up a 3rd round tie against Liverpool ! |
| 26 | And perhaps the light from those ears of corn which are in just the right condition for her to lay her eggs , fluoresce in a particular manner , recognizing which from her own inward pre-patterned instincts , she homes in and deposits her eggs . |
| 27 | ‘ The sun is in just the right place , and it will make a good picture . ’ |
| 28 | In fact the listener is probably in just the right psychological state of expectation to hear again what he has just heard ( or a slight variation of it ) . |
| 29 | It was very conventional , even old-fashioned , but its tensions built up in just the right way , and it gripped like a strangler 's hand . |
| 30 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |