Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Och , not too bad , you know , ’ he said , shaking his grey head slowly , his yellowed eyes and hair rather sickly in the electric light of the shop . |
| 2 | The Scottish Typographical Circular for instance rather specialized in joke articles over a woman 's signature which are obviously not by a woman at all . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the rough tone , irregular rhythms and ‘ dirty ’ intonation that most blues singers would have used are for the most part conspicuously absent in Elvis 's performance ; his tone is full , rich and well produced , his intonation is precise , stable and ‘ correct ’ , the notes are sustained and held right through , and the phrasing is legato . |
| 4 | Yes , it occurs to me to ask is Islam less strict in Kuwait than it is in Saudi Arabia , where , I gather , women are not allowed to drive cars , thieves will have their hands cut off and things like that . |
| 5 | This is typically 40% but may rise to 80% for groups especially interested in the study . |
| 6 | Sarah Hare , the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth Hare of Stow Bardolph , Norfolk , was very specific regarding the simplicity of her grave-clothes and coffin , making her wishes abundantly clear in her will of 1743 : ‘ … my coffin to be made of the best Elm lin 'd with a thinn lead with a flap of lead sawder 'd down over me , not to have a nail or any ornament that is not absolutely necessary , except a plate with my coat of arms and with this inscription : They that humble themselves shall be Exalted . ’ |
| 7 | 7.7.9.2 to pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply ] It is not unreasonable for a lease to contain a provision that the tenant will pay for the reinstatement of premises where insurance has been vitiated subject to a limitation being placed on the persons who can trigger this provision and possibly subject to the tenant being allowed to receive the payable insurance money as the reinstatement progresses . |
| 8 | 7.7.9.2 To pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest ( where the Landlord has rebuilt and reinstated the Premises out of its own money ) the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply and clause 7.7.9 should contain the following amendment : … anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority while under the Tenant 's control and in the employment of the Tenant wholly or partially irrecoverable … 7.8 Increase or decrease of the Centre If at any time during the Term the Centre shall be increased or decreased on a permanent basis the Insurance Rent Percentage shall be varied with effect from the first premium or additional premium payable in respect of a period after such a change by agreement between the parties or in default of agreement within [ 3 ] months of the first proposal for variation made by the Landlord in such a manner as shall be determined to be fair and reasonable in the light of the event in question by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator This requires no comment . |
| 9 | But the ( often severe ) tensions and conflicts so evident in their formation make it impossible to rest on explanations m market and liberal terms . |
| 10 | Why are employers so interested in attendance and punctuality ? |
| 11 | Why is the flow of the River Trent so small in summer ? |
| 12 | Some taxes , such as capital taxes and land development taxes merely political in origin , are often unproductive and cost more to collect than the gross proceeds . |
| 13 | With that brilliant pair Torville and Dean so much in the news , Easter Course members at Walsall could n't believe their eyes when these idols appeared before them — on roller skates ! |
| 14 | By the Cretaceous , insect damage is very pronounced as in the example of hundreds of cycad cones that have been examined : 22.2% of them had damage especially noticeable in those with mature pollen-bearing organs . |
| 15 | Which is that if we take these cards , instead of dropping in one at here there and everywhere and I doubt if anyone will take much notice of one , maybe I 'm a bit personally interested in , if I say could we all drop them in at Prestos in Rougier Street ? |
| 16 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 17 | Léonie only half-belonged in it , growing up in England with a dead English hero for a father and a mother disguised as an English missis with English ways . |
| 18 | Why is his chariot so slow in coming ? |
| 19 | Histamine has previously been shown to be 10 times less potent in stimulating cAMP concentrations in gastric glands isolated from guinea pig antrum when compared with glands isolated from the fundus ( 9×10 - 5 M compared with 10 - 5 M ) . |
| 20 | The number of ‘ true cases of cattle theft ’ , that is the number of cases known to the authorities less those in which it was determined that no crime had been committed , declined in the Southern and Western Provinces from 1,160 in 1908 to 394 in 1914 . |
| 21 | Even so , these sessions reveal much of the formula that would make the MJQ so successful in later years , with the loose basis of a style that would later ( perhaps unfairly ) become known as ‘ chamber jazz ’ . |
| 22 | Holding the industry constant in this way is of course only possible in broad terms . |
| 23 | She did not sleep well again that night , though with Naylor so much in her thoughts she had hardly expected to . |
| 24 | It is even at times disastrously lengthy in large concerns , notably in governmental ones . ’ |
| 25 | The development of these powerful new means of communication and the accompanying development of personnel highly skilled in them has expanded the means of control of information as well as its dissemination . |
| 26 | Your choice of iconography is of course highly significant in this context . ’ |
| 27 | If there is this source of contamination necessarily present in the procedure , why should we insist that the input to the procedure be completely sterile , i.e. devoid of any taint of falsehood ? |
| 28 | Because of the recession only six in ten of beds in the group 's 839 hotels were occupied compared with seven a year ago . |
| 29 | For he denies the importance of local factors in accounting for local ( or urban ) politics , by arguing that local authorities are insulated from any electoral or public opinion influences ; that local councillors are in any case only involved in decision-making in the most fragmented way ; and that local policymaking is constituted by stereotyped responses with little distinctly local reference ( 1980b , p. 135 ) . |
| 30 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |