Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 2 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 3 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 4 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 5 | In fact , as Stephen Gallup has pointed out in a recent history of the festival , Karajan was the last surviving link with the traditions of the festival 's founding fathers . |
| 6 | As Jonathan Zeitlin has pointed out in a similar context , there are ways in which the product of an industry can affect the margin of manoeuvre of both employer and trade union . |
| 7 | veteran cars , who wants to , who wants to drive around in an old Ford Poplar of of twenty , twenty five , thirty years ago ? |
| 8 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) Your house has come up in a random sample of houses in this area and , if you are a full-time housewife , we would like you to tell us about your working day since ( 4 ) we believe that a survey of this subject would be of great value in helping all housewives . |
| 10 | THE time has come round in the European Commission 's calendar ( see page 5 ) when another set of committee meetings will set out to define yet another ‘ framework ’ programme , the commission 's name for the programmes of largely applied research which it plans and administers on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 11 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 12 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 13 | I can inform the Secretary of State straight away that there is a much more immediate cause seriously impairing ’ the ability of the Agency to deliver a proper service ’ and that is the swingeing cuts in staff numbers of up to one third in each local office that the Secretary of State has carried through in the past two years under the operational strategy . |
| 14 | These examples may seem to be somewhat removed from the experience of a child who has grown up in an inner-city slum . |
| 15 | It has shot up in the recent hot sun , while the grass at the city 's other cemeteries has been burned off . |
| 16 | D J Long , the vice-president of marketing who left Applix Inc two weeks ago , has turned up in a similar capacity at Rosh Intelligent Systems Inc , the Aurum-like turnaround former Uniplex chief Jeff Waxman is now heading up . |
| 17 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 18 | An encouraging aspect of the Rossini celebration is the wider view of his art which has opened up in the past quarter of a century . |
| 19 | The other advantages inherent in the strategy were that ( i ) it enabled the allied forces to capitalise on their superior mobility and air power by minimizing the possibility of becoming bogged down in a static war ; ( ii ) it made the allies less vulnerable to attack by chemical weapons , as such weapons were most easily used from a static defensive position against an enemy engaged in a frontal assault ; ( iii ) it offered the possibility of cutting off all forces within Kuwait and southern Iraq — including the Republican Guard — thereby enabling the allies to destroy Iraq 's military capability in addition to liberating Kuwait ; and ( iv ) it meant that the allies would capture a swathe of Iraqi territory , a potentially useful lever in the event of the negotiation and implementation of ceasefire conditions . |
| 20 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 21 | The thing has gone on in a different way from previous years , and the outcome , as you 've observed , although the Liberal Democrats initially proposed spending at capping , they have gone down by half a million pounds . |
| 22 | And newcomer Lesley Ottery , formerly with PowerGen , has taken over in the newly-created post of Director of Information Systems . |
| 23 | His ambulance service has taken off in a big way . |
| 24 | ‘ Unless you want to end up in the Mediterranean . ’ |
| 25 | Every spare moment of John Drake 's time is devoted to the two-acre garden he has carved out in an open and exposed part of the Fens near Cambridge . |
| 26 | Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place . |
| 27 | The two-layered cameo of Augustus which has ended up in the British Museum bears tangible evidence of regard , even of awe , in the delicate circlet of gems , including a miniature cameo , affixed to it while in the hands of a medieval owner ( fig. 26 ) . |
| 28 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 29 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 30 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |