Example sentences of "[adj] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parody can sometimes get to the heart of the matter in a way that imitation can not , and George Birmingham 's King Tommy is genuinely Ruritanian in its quirky way . |
| 2 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 3 | It was then , just as the first signs of Arab flexibility appeared , that in Israel the notion took root that the renunciation of ‘ grand designs ’ was erroneous in its minimalism . |
| 4 | Their poison has the same origin as that of the snakes — modified saliva — but the animals are much more primitive in their wounding mechanism . |
| 5 | Words like blood and loyalty and revenge and endurance awaken something primitive in their auditors , who enjoy the sensation of adrenalin coursing in their veins . |
| 6 | And they tell us sea fishing is primitive in its thinking . |
| 7 | As we shall see later , it is not that the superego does not exist in these circumstances , but that it is undeveloped , unsupported by cultural forces of a progressive character ( and therefore vulnerable to exploitation by those of a regressive nature ) , and is primitive in its functioning . |
| 8 | Hampden Babylon is unmistakably Scottish in its love of football but like all love-affairs , Scotland 's relationship with the game has been stormy and impetuous . |
| 9 | Providing they beat both Saracens and London Scottish in their remaining two games they can finish as high as fifth in the Premier Division . |
| 10 | another of our teams on the wrong end of the result this weekend … were Gloucester … they went and lost to London Scottish in their first league match of the season … the score eight-three |
| 11 | By now almost wholly French in his artistic outlook , in August 1824 he was as amazed as his French contemporaries when Constable 's Hay Wain and Hampstead Heath were exhibited at the famous Salon Anglais . |
| 12 | County Board officials are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to ensure that everything possible is done to facilitate the preparations for the big game . |
| 13 | Mr Allen said the union leaders would leave no stone unturned in their efforts to save the Leyland-DAF plants at Glasgow , Birmingham , Leyland , Chorley and Thame . |
| 14 | Mr Allen said the union leaders would leave no stone unturned in their efforts to save the Leyland-DAF plants at Glasgow , Birmingham , Leyland , Chorley and Thame . |
| 15 | We shall leave no stone unturned in our search for the culprit . |
| 16 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 17 | Sometimes I thought that what was so outstanding was how he taught rather than what he taught , but then one realised that the two were inseparable in their effect , that this was the quality of the medium who spoke to each one of us who was present but who did not selfishly intervene . |
| 18 | For him spiritual and political ideas were becoming more and more inseparable in his concern with ‘ culture ’ as a whole . |
| 19 | Walterkin emanated a powerful brooding air that seemed peculiar in one so young . |
| 20 | If this strikes us today as quaint , peculiar in its literalness , we have to remember that he was addressing , through his parents , a nation that prized practicality . |
| 21 | Now , he looked at her curiously , unable to decide what was different in her appearance . |
| 22 | And even supposing — just supposing — that any of it was true ; well , it would be quite different in her own case . |
| 23 | I though we 'd sit on her step , like we always did , and share out the Cadbury 's , and I 'd tell her about our school and she 'd tell me all about the nuns and everything , but when she opened the door she just stood there , all clean and different in her stiff long uniform still , and said , " I ca n't possibly play out tonight . |
| 24 | Instead , though , she was horrified to hear a clear note of something very different in her voice . |
| 25 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 26 | However , road pricing is rapidly claiming widespread support — from organisations as different in their political perspectives as the Institute of Directors and the new Institute for Public Policy Research . |
| 27 | We whisk you away to visit two beautiful gardens , both completely different in their scope and character . |
| 28 | The history consisted of genealogies ( which were different in their emphases and resonances from place to place and from person to person ) and of anecdotes , poems , stories , all of which were similarly variable . |
| 29 | Different types of reform unit emerged , but the most common , known as Peasant Committees , were not very different in their organisation from the previous land settlements . |
| 30 | So it seems that these sales taxes are not very different in their incidence from a value added tax . |