Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proprietary life assurance companies are no different in this respect but it is very difficult to ascertain the amounts of profit arising from individual contracts and the exact period of time over which they can be said to have been earned . |
| 2 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 3 | We know that this is only a small proportion of the people who are unemployed in this area but we hope we have made their Christmas a little bit more enjoyable . |
| 4 | There was a large pool of unemployed in those days and it seemed to us that no sooner were you in than they were trying to get you off the job . |
| 5 | There 's nothing wrong in that belief provided you do it properly . |
| 6 | You sit high in any case and it 's just as well — you need to be able to see the big car 's extremities . |
| 7 | An account executive working on the business of a merchant bank might become so interested in financial matters that he moves over to his client 's advertising department , but as a general rule , the chances of rising to the top are greater in an agency . |
| 8 | MacArthur was not personally much interested in economic matters and he was faced in 1947–48 with vocal pressure for a new approach to economic questions . |
| 9 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 10 | He was n't interested in other benefits and he did n't want to insure his own life . |
| 11 | He seemed to assume that she was as interested in these questions as he was , and she began to read newspapers thoroughly and listen to news broadcasts on the wireless . |
| 12 | I have long been interested in military technology so I was determined to attend the presentation . |
| 13 | An angry Fox said : ‘ I am not interested in those players and I am not interested in Fairbank going anywhere . |
| 14 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 15 | Marx and Engels were interested in primitive cultures because they wanted to construct a general history and theory of society in order to explain the coming to be of capitalism . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've always been interested in old furniture and I 've swotted it up a bit in my spare time . ’ |
| 17 | You have shown that you are really interested in old people and you know something about your duties and your role as a care assistant . |
| 18 | Sauvignon , that quintessential crisp , dry white variety , is popular in fashion-led Australia where it produces clean dry whites — but with a difference . |
| 19 | Traffic was light in those days and I explored South Wiltshire — in fact the whole area some fifteen miles around Salisbury . |
| 20 | The roads were so empty in those days that you really could enjoy driving it fast . |
| 21 | Co-operative R&D ventures are interesting in this respect because they are a way of organizing the process of innovation which promises to minimize static inefficiencies without sacrificing dynamic efficiency . |
| 22 | It is particularly prevalent in developing countries where it claims 250000 victims each year . |
| 23 | Collective amnesia is far more prevalent in this culture than we would pretend . |
| 24 | It is n't easy to be assertive in sexual relationships but it does get easier as you practise . |
| 25 | In any case , father says that it would unusable in rough weather when they most need it . |
| 26 | I admit to feeling a little dubious regarding the adequacy of these small filtration units and this was well-founded in some respects as I discovered that although the two models are described as 35 and 55 gallon capacity no mention is made in the advertising that this refers to US gallons not Imperial . |
| 27 | I am extremely playful in that sense and I believe it 's the only form of fun possible in a world which is n't always much fun . |
| 28 | It did n't matter to be honest in some contracts whether we won or lost against other people low paid workers , exploitation by the contractors . |
| 29 | So we see that all the problems of correlation are just as real in recent history as they are in the stratigraphical record , once we have lost the advantage of the date at the top of the newspaper or letter . |
| 30 | His study on psychoanalysis was crucial in this respect and it still provides the basic model for the particular notion of social representation ( Moscovici , 1976 ) . |