Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this view arises because a klima-genetische geomorphologie was proposed by Büdel ( 1963 ) and became widely available in the English reading literature in 1965 ( Holzner and Weaver , 1965 ) . |
| 2 | There are many variations , but plan and elevations remain fundamentally unchanged in the great temples of the fifth century : of Zeus at Olympia ( plan fig. 120 ) and the Parthenon ( view fig. 129 ) . |
| 3 | At his recommendation , the uniform of the British Army was changed to khaki which became so familiar in the subsequent world wars , |
| 4 | This is insufficient to explain why radical protest suddenly became so salient in the late 1960s . |
| 5 | When he was made redundant and no longer had this outlet for the expression of his masculinity , he became less confident in the caring aspects of his personality , almost as if afraid he would become all woman . |
| 6 | The ECU proved attractive as a hedge against currency movements , as realignments became less common in the late 1980s , while yields remained above those on the deutschmark . |
| 7 | I 'm a 19-year-old Scottish university student- But why am I becoming so interested in the Personal columns ? |
| 8 | Yuan was a lotus , suspended impossibly motionless in the null gravity under which he tended to maintain his quarters when he was alone . |
| 9 | On the other , there is no likelihood of this socio-legal context becoming more liberal in the immediate future , and so the ‘ hassle ’ , the dangerous lifestyle , the broken hearts and broken homes , which users and their relations suffer from , will continue . |
| 10 | The human rights organization Amnesty International claimed in a report published on Jan. 10 that torture and summary executions by the Senegalese security forces were becoming more common in the southern region of Casamance , where a separatist movement had been intensifying its armed struggle since mid-1990 [ see pp. 37799-800 ] . |
| 11 | As practitioners progress in their careers it becomes increasingly difficult and onerous to remember and record prior experience and achievement in a way which can achieve the type of credit which is often needed ( and is becoming more important in the present climate of belief that individuals should not be required to repeat learning which has already taken place ) . |
| 12 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 13 | The flowering plants ( angiosperms ) appear almost ready-made in the Cretaceous , and many of these fossils can even be placed into living genera . |
| 14 | The presence of the P3A exon only in primates and man , and its absence in other species suggests that insertion of the P3A exon in the AchR gene occurred relatively late in the evolutionary line . |
| 15 | Bogwood looks particularly good and the staining gives brown water that looks very natural in the estuarine aquarium . |
| 16 | A raven flies past , looking dead black in the flat lighting , and croaks his way up the valley . |
| 17 | That the crass inversion of reality caricatured in these aspects of the popular image of Hitler was in large measure a product of the deliberate distortions of Nazi propaganda has been made abundantly clear in the preceding chapters . |
| 18 | Instead , we should be asking how the diversity of body plans so evident in the Vendian and Cambrian affected the shape of things to come . |
| 19 | Much of the concern came from the black communities : in 1971 Bernard Coard , a black teacher , published an influential document entitled How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School , while Afro-Caribbean parents and local teachers in Redbridge , frustrated by the relative lack of research and support , conducted their own investigation and in 1978 published disturbing evidence on the school performance of black children . |
| 20 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 21 | One of my great regrets is that in the period immediately after liberation Burmese leaders and people generally seemed more interested in the political future of Burma than in the urgent task of reconstruction . |
| 22 | There are occasions , usually occurring when the weather conditions are near perfect for bream fishing , when you will go through a period of having bite after bite , all looking perfectly hittable in the classic bream style — slow and determined — and when you will become extremely frustrated because you miss every one . |
| 23 | She smiled at the thought ; the next seven days to the interview seemed almost endless in the long hot summer of 1906 . |
| 24 | The little girl too was much improved , no longer neglected , looking very pretty in the new shoes he had bought for her . |
| 25 | ‘ The hunters will be in — only the rough ponies will be turned out , ’ McLeish observed out of childhood knowledge as he led her towards his car , looking very forlorn in the big parking area . |
| 26 | It 'll feel very cold in the fresh , northerly wind , the temperatures reaching eleven celsius , fifty two fahreneheit at best . |
| 27 | Because they were specialists , the welfare rights officers rapidly became skilled and knowledgeable in interpreting regulations as they applied to mental handicap and established valuable ‘ precedents ’ as time passed , but obtaining adequate benefit support nonetheless became more difficult in the closing phase of our research due to changes in the social security system . |
| 28 | The Doric temple became early popular in the western colonies and many more sets of archaic metopes are known from this area than from the homelands . |
| 29 | As with so many things in the real economic world , these processes were not smoothly reversible once they were perceived , and they became rapidly critical in the mid 1960s when companies in a wide range of industries ran into severe problems . |
| 30 | What seems plain maltreatment at the time could look rather different in the quiet surroundings of a tribunal or courtroom months or years later . |