Example sentences of "[adj] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And they tell us sea fishing is primitive in its thinking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We shall leave no stone unturned in our search for the culprit . |
| 11 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For him spiritual and political ideas were becoming more and more inseparable in his concern with ‘ culture ’ as a whole . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Instead , though , she was horrified to hear a clear note of something very different in her voice . |
| 16 | Now , he looked at her curiously , unable to decide what was different in her appearance . |
| 17 | They are very different in their purpose : the women and the ventriloquist 's dummy . |
| 18 | Usually this is so , but of course the lecturers they are very different in their approaches — some will use this illustration approach more than others . |
| 19 | The Caucasian peoples — Georgians , Armenians and Azerbaijanis are also very different in their history , religion , language and culture than the Slavic majority , and they have historically been no less conscious of those differences than the Baltic peoples ( there were mass riots in the Georgian capital Tbilisi in 1978 , for instance , when it appeared that Georgian was about to be dropped as one of the republic 's official languages ) . |
| 20 | Althusser 's entire , and necessary , critique of the ‘ Hegelian ’ concept of history and of the notion of an expressive totality , etc. , aims at showing that there is not one single history , a general history , but rather histories different in their type , rhythm , mode of inscription — intervallic , differentiated histories . |
| 21 | So it seems that these sales taxes are not very different in their incidence from a value added tax . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | What follows is an explanation of the rights and duties between the seller and buyer when they have not agreed anything different in their contract . |
| 24 | We whisk you away to visit two beautiful gardens , both completely different in their scope and character . |
| 25 | Not only do they taste different , but they are very different in their performance when it comes to washing . |
| 26 | The key large groups are now the C1s and C2s — who are often rather different in their attitudes and habits . |
| 27 | Then they were different in their attitude towards the ship . |
| 28 | The two girls , so near in age , but so different in their experience of life , walked briskly through the mean and dirty streets . |
| 29 | When flying on four lines where wrist action is part of the control system , the handles will be entirely different in their shape and operation . |
| 30 | The various urban development corporations , for example , are recognizably different in their modes of operation and have not always followed the line favoured by central government . |