Example sentences of "in a [noun] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was to wrap the height of high technology in a shape you will never forget . |
| 2 | Artificial insemination by the husband 's sperm is approved by many religious authorities as a means of achieving fertility in a couple who would otherwise be childless . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you kindly go away , ’ said Prince Edward in a voice which would certainly have carried across Rutland . |
| 4 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
| 5 | Even if you are in a rush there should still be time for a glass of skimmed milk and a piece of fruit or fruit juice . |
| 6 | If we said the doctor , opera director , humourist , writer , broadcaster and ex-Sussex University tutor was giving a lecture about jokes in a church you 'd just have to go , would n't you ? |
| 7 | So he is now in a position he can either take them to court or he 's forgetting it . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had enough and I 'm going to try my luck in a country I can actually understand . |
| 9 | In a development which can also be seen in Zimbabwe , inflationary pressures have been greater for low-income urban households than for those with high incomes . |
| 10 | Get born in Iran , emigrate to the US , get caught in a pot you should never have been in , and wait till it climbs into seven figures before you call and fill an 11–1 inside straight . |
| 11 | If during the waggle the clubhead feels to be not at the end of the shaft but an inch or so up the shaft , in a waggle you would never be able to feel the exact position of the head coming into impact . |
| 12 | Wedding bells are merely an incidental punctuation in a life which will already be committed to career , aerobic class and the occasional night with the lasses . |
| 13 | So , if you ate , say , thirty Mars bars in a day you might just put on 2 lb ( 1 kg ) of fat . |
| 14 | Even doing something only once can be enough to train the horse to behave in a way we would rather it did n't ! |
| 15 | The working men for whom this institution was created had a thirst for education in a way we can scarcely any longer imagine today . |
| 16 | They loved to ‘ baby ’ him in a way they could never do with me . |
| 17 | Thus the government may spend money on compulsory education or compulsory vaccination because is recognizes that , left to their own decisions , individuals will act in a way they will subsequently regret . |
| 18 | Shils wrote with confidence of the universal value of this centre-periphery model , in a way which might now appear as a paean to a particular vision of the American way of politics : |
| 19 | That Peel , leading the Tory opposition , recognised that the Whigs ' Bill would in the short run unite the middle and lower classes in support of the Government is one thing ; to infer from this that Grey and his team deliberately set out both to counter the threat of revolution and to do so in a way which would ultimately isolate the working class , quite another . |
| 20 | The rural African or Asian , living on a diet like this , moves his bowels in a way which can only fill the constipated Western world with envy . |
| 21 | Mathematics textbooks present the notion of profit in a way which can only confuse students in their quest for an understanding of the term . |
| 22 | Moreover , as the public themselves come to recognise that many more votes are being " wasted " and that their votes bear little relation to the final result in the constituency or the country , so declining turnout and public disaffection will increase in a way which will really threaten the legitimacy of the whole system . |
| 23 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 24 | The return to England had worked in a way he would never have believed it could . |
| 25 | She sang Schubert 's song Erlkonig in a way I can still recall . |
| 26 | You 're generous and selfless in a way I could never be . ’ |
| 27 | In a way I 'd rather pay the same and finish the mortgage earlier . |
| 28 | Understanding Data Communications shows you how to do it yourself in a way you can easily understand . |
| 29 | And I suppose he that 's an area where one is worried about quantity and quality because it 's in a way you can always provide more quantity I imagine at a lesser cost by going into a conurbation than you can by going into rural areas . |
| 30 | Maria said vehemently , her thoughts flying briefly to Rachel , for whom marriage was a trap in a way it could never be for Florian . |