Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effort will be conducted by the support organisations of the member companies and will be managed by Symbologic Corp , based in Redmond , which claims expertise in customer-support technology . |
| 2 | The deep voice was rich in mocking laughter but , underneath , the anger remained . |
| 3 | Mistress Philippa tightened her mouth and Athelstan cursed ; he did not wish his interrogation to end in mocking laughter . |
| 4 | Travis McKenna inclined his head in mocking acknowledgement . |
| 5 | In mocking fashion the fable puts stress on two outstanding characteristics of anthropological field research : a central concern with kinship and marriage and an emphasis on gaining understanding through participant observation and the intimate , first-hand , use of vernacular concepts . |
| 6 | ‘ A shower of rain wo n't kill me , ’ she retorted , as that derisive eyebrow lifted again in mocking challenge at her apparent hesitation . |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia 's Oil Minister , Hisham Nazer , emphatically ruled out any cuts in Saudi output , declaring before the meeting that " nobody has to approve what Saudi Arabia produces " . |
| 8 | A Saudi statement attributed the incident to fighting between rival Bedouin in Saudi territory . |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia ( whose Petroleum Minister Shaikh Hisham Nazer did not attend the meeting himself , on grounds of " exhaustion " ) entered reservations for the opposite reason , to keep its options open for a possible increase in Saudi production above 8,000,000 bpd ( its allocation being 7,880,000 ) . |
| 10 | We will examine the history of delinquency in an attempt to correct the notion , or perhaps myth , that such behaviour is a uniquely modern phenomenon that indicates a degeneration of standards of behaviour in present-day society . |
| 11 | The principal voice of Amalgamemnon is Mira Enketei , a university lecturer in the humanities who is on the verge of being made redundant due to the seeming irrelevance of her field in present-day society . |
| 12 | The result is that it is very complex ; in addition , I must note that quite a few words are given stress patterns that I do not feel are acceptable in present-day English . |
| 13 | To my chagrin , I found , back in present-day Clonmacnoise , that most of the stone slabs with strange carvings of Celtic saints , reminiscent of Celtic gods , had been taken indoors and put in glass cases under bright lights in the accursed Centre . |
| 14 | This appears to offer a contrast with the 200 native languages ( in fifty-seven families ) in present-day North America , of which about sixty-eight occur north of the 45th parallel ( the zone comparable with Siberia ) . |
| 15 | The existence of variable orthographies is an advantage to the ME dialectologist in exactly the same way that the existence of spoken variation is an advantage in present-day research . |
| 16 | That the " shop " was a natural unit for trade unionism is confirmed even in present-day language . |
| 17 | If one tries to give a precise and explicit characterization of some paradigm in the history of science or in present-day science , it always turns out that some work within the paradigm violates the characterization . |
| 18 | This is because all possible fictions of scientific progress are virtual in present-day technology which has taken over the function of ‘ productive ’ simulation . |
| 19 | We can profitably ask if realism in linguistics is incompatible with " openness ' in textual interpretation . |
| 20 | The whole question of whether we should imagine the plays as fixed in textual form is a pressing consideration . |
| 21 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 22 | Robert Scholes writes in Textual Power : |
| 23 | Before engaging in textual analysis , however , it is appropriate to examine the fundamental left-wing literary movement of the interwar period , socialist realism , and to assess the extent to which Nizan 's ideas on revolutionary literature were influenced by socialist realist theory and practice . |
| 24 | Bransford and McCarrell ( 1975 ) show clearly that without inference comprehension may not take place effectively in textual material , and that particular contexts produce different structures of organisation and comprehension . |
| 25 | Some of the brightest moments in the game stemmed from forwards and backs in blissful unison , fully exercising the courageous Welsh defensive repertoire : Derek Stark , one felt , might have done rather better with his chance in the second minute , created by Peter Wright 's lineout tidy , midfield linkage and Gavin Hastings ' incision . |
| 26 | Sandholme and Hive are two hamlets side by side , where many years ago the inhabitants must have lived in blissful seclusion amid a farming community . |
| 27 | Gina remained in blissful ignorance , while Anthony reduced his father to a state of helpless laughter every lunch time by demanding egg-and-cress sandwiches . |
| 28 | They half ran , half dodged , in the general direction of home , playing their ball game , in blissful ignorance of the fact that Anne Hanvey was late because she had gone shopping first . |
| 29 | This must not be dismissed as mere metaphor since it could also be true of the reader , for whom a health check might reveal their having suffered from a range of complaints in blissful ignorance . |
| 30 | The letter is about the vexed question of ‘ unmet need ’ and whether to record it and employ extra solicitors or whether to ignore it and allow the DoH to remain in blissful ignorance . |