Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 2 | In the stanchions the lashing is a figure of eight through a hole in the stanchion and two eye bolts fixed into the false runners . |
| 3 | It was n't right for a man in his position to be kept in the dark . |
| 4 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 5 | ‘ it seems to me that it is not possible for a person in the position of the bank to exclude the discretion of the court , but one nevertheless starts from the position that the contractual position between the parties is that the costs will be paid on an indemnity basis . |
| 6 | With this level of distortion , it is not possible for a rise in the corporate tax to reduce ( w/r ) , and this illustrates how the existence of market imperfections may significantly affect the incidence of taxation . |
| 7 | It is therefore possible for a defendant in a negligence action to raise a defence of volenti non fit injuria , but consent to the risk in question can not be inferred merely from the other party 's knowledge of the purported exclusion . |
| 8 | As I am unable to call to discuss these with you in person during bank opening hours I should be grateful for a reply in writing which I can present to the Council at their next meeting on 2 April 1992 . |
| 9 | The position was that as a sub-librarian in Plymouth . |
| 10 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 11 | There is something strange about a subject in which its research workers are willing to dabble at the application of the jargon of thermodynamics but unwilling to apply even the most rudimentary aspects of mechanics to these problems . |
| 12 | Shakespeare partly-owned the Globe , which was built in 1599 and rebuilt in 1614 after a fire in 1613 started by a cannon used as a prop . |
| 13 | Her singing sounds alright but there are plenty of kids who could do that after a whirl in Stock , Aitken and Waterman 's mixmaster . |
| 14 | I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument . |
| 15 | Rewrite this as a procedure in a suitable high-level language . |
| 16 | Some observers interpreted this as a manoeuvre in preparation for a shift in Kadhafi 's position on the extraditions . |
| 17 | Figure 8.9 represents this as a fall in the real wage acceptable to the L 1 insiders from w 1 to w 2 . |
| 18 | Workers will initially interpret this as a rise in their real wage because they still anticipate constant prices — and so will be willing to offer more labour ( move up their supply curve ) , i.e. employment grows and unemployment falls . |
| 19 | Ascertainment bias might lead to earlier detection of cancer in regularly supervised patients , but against this as a factor in our case the survival times in cancer patients and the frequency of incident and fatal cancers were not different in clinic patients and controls ( figs 1 and 2 ; table II ) . |
| 20 | Professor James Torrance , I know , sees this as a weakness in Calvinism , and it can not be denied that , despite the Reformation , a great deal of this legalism passed over into Protestantism . |
| 21 | Added to this is the perpetual insecurity reserve police suffer as a result of the management 's control over the renewal of their contract : and sergeants are not averse to using this as a threat in parades . |
| 22 | On a similar matter a local resident mentioned that the owners of the property known as Rivendell have , in effect , extended their garden by planting shrubs etc on the grass verge thus making it impossible for either vehicles or pedestrians to use this as a refuge in an emergency . |
| 23 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 24 | Mary Richardson , who suffered from depressions , committed suicide in November 1895 during a stay in Hastings with her daughter Dorothy . |
| 25 | As Lewis was very fond of champagne , he had offered Eliot some during a sitting in the spring of 1937 . |
| 26 | The figures were high for a county in which comital lordship had not been noticeably demanding ; the count 's fortifications should have been adequately defended . |
| 27 | However , early proposals [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ] that the two bodies should align ran into stiff opposition from neutral Ireland , from the UK and from the Netherlands , which maintained that the EC was unsuited for a role in European defence policy . |
| 28 | Norris 's book is , in fact , more than adequate as a title in a series on Modern Masters . |
| 29 | Free as a bird in a simple panelled ivory linen dress ( this page ) , £71 , Hobbs . |
| 30 | The details of the experiment are not really relevant ; the point of extract ( 11 ) is to show how eight-year-olds use one another as a resource in the exchange of information . |