Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am being polite about the way in which the Government have behaved when I say that they have dealt with our recommendations in a cavalier fashion . |
| 2 | As a letter to me at Merstham dated I May 1939 indicated , Eliot was polite about the article in question : |
| 3 | He had been somewhat apprehensive about the encounter in view of the way their last meeting had ended , but fortunately she seemed to have put her irritation behind her . |
| 4 | Gus , tepid about the collection in general , grew excited about one or two personal ornaments . |
| 5 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 6 | There would be no point in designing software to control access to the video disc , unless suitable interfaces are also available to make it possible for the computer in the system to communicate with the video disc player and control its operation . |
| 7 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 8 | And even after due allowance has been made for the undeniable fact , easily forgotten as it is , that literature is written by writers , and that writers are likely to be highly exceptional beings who actively prefer working alone , there is still something persuasively representative about the man in the play who would rather listen to a new recording of a favourite opera than to the problems of his neighbours and relatives . |
| 9 | Before you try to make a sale , it 's important to find out as much as possible about the products in your department ( see the next section on ‘ product knowledge ’ ) . |
| 10 | They want to find out as much as possible about the issues in a short time . |
| 11 | She could almost feel sorry for him , the way that everybody felt sorry for the coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons ; so singleminded , and with a lack of perspective that was spectacular . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt sorry for the people in the awful rain . |
| 13 | When they also understand that housing costs play a proportionately lower part in pensioners ' expenditure in England than in the rest of Europe , they may be grateful for the way in which we have promoted home ownership . |
| 14 | Completely unaccustomed to the hot , humid air — so wet and steamy that it was almost impossible to breathe properly — she 'd been deeply grateful for the air-conditioning in the apartment which — when it was working properly ! — had kept them all relatively cool . |
| 15 | They would go back to Paris to the beautiful house , but she would never stop being grateful for the farm in the woods , because here she had found her father and here she had found Alain . |
| 16 | I was asked to be discreet as the lady in question , a possible grand-daughter living on the island , was of affluent mien and might not like to be reminded of her origins . |
| 17 | A quick note with your mail — sorry about the delay in getting this lot off to you ! |
| 18 | ‘ All right , I 'm sorry about the knife in the pond , ’ he said , raising his hands in submission . |
| 19 | ‘ Sorry about the mess in here — I 'm trying to do some clearing out . ’ |
| 20 | These degrees are generally of 21–24 months ' duration by full-time study , 36 months full-time for the MPhil in Clinical Psychology . |
| 21 | This anomaly became even more striking as the increase in merchant prosperity was accompanied by deterioration in the economic position of the ruling class . |
| 22 | In considering a government summary table , it must first be recognized that the raw data were probably collected with no specific use in mind and therefore , almost inevitably , too much detail is given or the format is unsuitable for the purpose in hand . |
| 23 | The need to build an adequate base is not only relevant to the pioneer missionary situation , but also to many run-down , inner city locations — only here the problems are even greater because of a history of decline , premises which are impossible to maintain in good order and totally unsuitable for the task in hand , and demands made upon inadequate resources by the needy people in the community and overstretched social services trying to meet their needs . |
| 24 | If you are silly enough to categorize all your faults for the interviewer you will surely already have shown yourself as unsuitable for the job in many other ways . |
| 25 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 26 | He was eventually to undertake six campaigns in Lombardy to subdue and punish rebellious cities , grown rich through the boom in manufacturing and commerce , and increasingly independent of the old feudal authority . |
| 27 | Would she want to tell those people outside anything different about the situation in South Africa now ? |
| 28 | Buxtehude , which is studied first , is most interesting for the way in which an attempt has been made to treat a large area of a small town , ranging from centre to suburb . |
| 29 | Hughes ' cityscape is as exciting for the children in her books as the bluebell woods and dingle dells of 50 years ago , and this optimism may be the greatest gift a modern writer can give young readers . |
| 30 | Such a juxtaposition of Porter 's and Kaplan 's ideas is useful provided that one is clear about the differences in their aims . |