Example sentences of "[adv] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The long hall was caparisoned with cloths of Paris , costly arras , and ablaze with torches burning fiercely in their countless sconces along the walls .
2 A pair of keen black eyes burned fiercely in their sunken sockets , and as she met their sardonic gaze she drew back and would have fled , had not the servant been close behind her .
3 I love you I love you while the lead guitar giggles and the drummer 's tongue lies wetly in his opened mouth .
4 The Nationalists fared better in their foreign dealings .
5 If I can have a game of polo I feel five hundred times better in my mental outlook .
6 ’ If I have a game of polo I feel five hundred times better in my mental outlook . ’
7 And when the old lady finally died suddenly in her eighties , she felt utterly bereft .
8 ’ ’ I charge you , therefore , for the present abjure all fighting but that is forced upon you , when no man can blame if you do valiantly in your own defence .
9 A surface-facing mouth signifies the type of feeding that the Arrowana needs , taking all types of unsuspecting prey from below in its native waters .
10 Because the molluscs are such a large and varied group , with such an extensive fossil record , we shall consider them below in their various classes .
11 The three cottages lay innocently below in their little orchard of olives .
12 The printing history of The Fairy Queen is described below in our bibliographical addendum , so as not to interrupt the story here with a page of rather convoluted formulae .
13 Read the extract below in your usual way : The Industrial Revolution did more than free man from economic dependence on relatively static methods of production ; it increased the total amount of food and goods available to every individual .
14 In each of these forms , the Word is the Word insofar and only insofar as God really expresses and communicates himself through it ; and the special task of Christian dogmatics is to refer the present proclamation of Jesus Christ back to its original ground in God himself in order to clear away distortions and misrepresentations so that the Word itself can be heard afresh in its own integrity .
15 But prophets rarely live comfortably for long in their own — or other people 's — company , and in 1965 Dylan horrified his faithful audience by selling out to commerce .
16 As already mentioned , after puberty a girl does not stay long in her natal home .
17 Such a purchaser would , in effect , buy a firm that he did not want to own for long in its present shape .
18 The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room .
19 State officials are dependent upon capitalist economic development and growth if they are going to be able to pursue their interests and sustain themselves in office , so they are constrained to act in the interests of capital , although not necessarily in its optimal interests ( Offe , 1984 ) .
20 Others gain an income from a team of supporters not necessarily in their new church .
21 Technologically mediated mass experience is not necessarily in itself progressive , and we need to remember the importance of conflict , within the form and the practice , and of a continuous articulative effort on the part of producers and listeners .
22 But in spite of the fact that I am more attentive to my own affairs than to yours , the disproportion of awareness is not necessarily in my own favour .
23 Frank Jacques quoted the Harvey Memorial Lecture extensively and approvingly in his 1954–55 District Annual Report .
24 After a few seconds , Pam straightened up , seated herself on the chair beside the bed and took his right hand gently in her own .
25 She had no idea how long they waited like that , with Mary O'Dell wiping the sweat from her face with a cool washcloth , speaking gently in her soft Irish singsong as if Ruth were a child , for by now her memories had blurred together ; faces swam into focus through waves of pain , then disappeared .
26 Not far from the Wawel Hill in Cracow is the Church of S. Andrew ( 1086 ) , which , despite a Baroque interior , is a fairly well preserved Romanesque building , especially in its fortified , massive walls .
27 Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons .
28 The individual sounds of other species may not be so readily recognized purely from instinct , though it seems highly likely that the unborn infant , while still in the mother 's womb , especially in its latter days , would be able to hear such external sounds and be aware of its mother 's response .
29 The history of the English language is considered , especially in its regional and dialect forms .
30 Rather smaller and darker than Swift and Pallid Swift , differing especially in its dark throat and faster flight .
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