Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Lewis the Psalms were poetry , Job sacred fiction and St Mark 's gospel narrative , and yet he could detect the flow of the divine drama through and in the different mediums of the biblical writers . |
| 2 | Mellissa never knew what hit her , her circuits melding in the robotic equivalent of a cerebral haemorrhage , the doors to the complex opening as if in welcome . |
| 3 | Words drone and a family of flies stagger through the heavy air as if in pursuit of them . |
| 4 | The sentence can only be assigned the right truth conditions , or alternatively be given the correct semantic representation , if the pragmatic significance of and in this sentential context ( namely the " and then " interpretation ) is taken into account before doing the semantics . |
| 5 | He breathed the air deeply , hauling it into his broad chest as if this particular air on this exact spot could be stored up and carried around as a reserve and reminder : for minutes on end he stood there , resisting any move which would lift the spell , gazing into the hidden valley as if in there lay the treasure he wanted . |
| 6 | I have canvassed the views of my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities who is very European , and he assures me that people who live in the southern part of Spain were totally bemused to wake up one day and find themselves in an invented region called Andalusia with a different Government from than in Madrid . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that there is not really a contrast between and , since only occurs in weak syllables and no minimal pairs can be found to show a clear contrast between and in unstressed syllables ( though there have been some ingenious attempts ) . |
| 8 | She sat holding her husband 's hand and gave a brief nod as if in answer to his unspoken question , then when he cleared his throat awkwardly she patted his hand and spoke for him . |
| 9 | The solos are short , packed with a powerful energy as if in defiance of his life-threatened status , or to demonstrate a total disregard towards it . |
| 10 | It is also anticipated that the initiating member 's fee arrangements with his exclusive sell situation client will take the form of a time-based fee at or in excess of standard fee rates , or the inclusion in the fee arrangement of an element of value-added/success fees . |