Example sentences of "[adj] in [det] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you might be interested in that little snippet of knowledge , that 's all . ’ |
| 2 | There were no prizes for guessing , after tonight , that the Desmond Seymour-Stracheys were living on a financial knife-edge , and would be interested in any sudden accession of wealth , by any means , from any source . |
| 3 | We are told the story of a man ( unidentified , so for convenience I shall refer to him as X ) who , though ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ had become interested in another younger man on the occasion of finding himself in a triangular relationship with him and his ( i.e. the younger man 's ) fiancée at a dinner party . |
| 4 | 20 per cent of the random sample of the libraries were public in any normal sense of the word . |
| 5 | So warped fantasies about being a big bad soldier start to be taken for real in some dark corner of my deluded male brain . |
| 6 | And what it suggests is that structures of desire , emotion and fantasy have deep roots of some sort in the self which are not necessarily amenable in any simple way to processes of conscious rational argument . |
| 7 | Assimilation of place is only noticeable in this regressive assimilation of alveolar consonants ; it is not something that foreign learners need to learn to do . |
| 8 | All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second . |
| 9 | The element of ritual and formality bulked large in much eighteenth-century warfare in West Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ He also said the factory included many novel and revolutionary schemes not operational in any other part of the world , although he stressed that all equipment had been tried out elsewhere ’ . |
| 11 | The reasons for the Special Forces not proving more effective in this desperate year of 1940 , lay as much in the political problems and strategy as in shortages of equipment . |
| 12 | ‘ And after you return from your first expedition as Scouts , ’ he promised , ‘ other secretions from your body will be blent in this same chalice of the Primarch — which was once His very drinking cup ! — during your induction into the third degree of Brotherhood ; though that in itself will only be the superficies of the third degree ceremony … ’ |
| 13 | This would be searchable in either direction , which could be useful in some parallel application for string searching , or just allowing for reverse searching because the end of the string is more restrictive . |
| 14 | It is present in this waist-skimming button through sun top which has a square neckline , broad shoulder straps and flattering shaping around the bust . |
| 15 | And in no time at all erm they were all more or less depending in some small way on me , and I was just absolutely lapping the situation up , you know what I mean , just suited me fine . |
| 16 | Yet they continuously compared their own ideas with Greek ideas , made propaganda for their own beliefs , absorbing many Greek notions and customs in the process — and ultimately found themselves involved in that general confrontation of Greek and Jewish values which we call Christianity . |
| 17 | Why had she ever got involved in that slanging match in the first place ? she wondered with a dark surge of anger . |
| 18 | Zarathustra believed that man was involved in this cosmic struggle of good and evil and that he was compelled to choose one side or the other through his own conduct . |
| 19 | Several factors are involved in this unhappy state of affairs : a general decline in cultural literacy , and in skill and practice in reading . |
| 20 | We are concerned to challenge the extent to which those involved in this restricted form of transition are offered any real choices in decision-making . |
| 21 | Too old to be involved in this escalating round of violence . |
| 22 | As long as Kristeva 's third stage is present in our thinking only as a Utopian dream , feminists can not simply refuse to get involved in this endless discourse of difference ; people who claim that this is a postfeminist era are living in a dream world . |
| 23 | The engineers involved in this final part of the supply chain handling process have had their work cut out . |
| 24 | But then just about everybody involved in this remarkable afternoon of attrition at Leicester emerged chewing a bone of contention . |
| 25 | The Iraqi government announced on March 1 , 1989 , that a general amnesty from legal proceedings would be granted to " all Iraqis who reside abroad and are involved in any political crime with the exception of the traitors Jalal al-Talabani and the agents of the Iranian regime [ a reference to the DPK ] " . |
| 26 | Apart from anything else , that 'll ensure the court that he is not tempted to be involved in any similar incident in the future with is girlfriend . |
| 27 | But they argued on the basis of British press reports that despite the considerable identity of views of the participants to the talks ‘ the Romanian leaders do not wish to be involved in any Western plan for the establishment of a ‘ neutral ’ Afghanistan ’ . |
| 28 | It is appropriate to add a few words at this point that might help avert the possibility of becoming involved in any extensive debate about whether associative changes of the sort described here should really be thought of as instances of perceptual learning , producing changes in the perceived similarity of the stimuli . |
| 29 | Sometime after her American tour in 1910 her Russian protector , Victor Dandré , appears to have become involved in some financial scandal in St Petersburg which may have influenced Pavlova 's decision in 1912 to buy Ivy House in Golders Green , London . |
| 30 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |