Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the rider 's weight is in front of the horse 's , he may cause the horse to fall or stop in the above instances . |
| 2 | Something like seventy five percent or sixty six or seventy five percent of the , of the units which we actually let , of the houses that we actually let , go to homeless families you know , it is a complete fiction to suggest , or even try and suggest as this does that somehow or other houses are being allocated willy-nilly to people who have massive resources who could go out and buy or rent in the private sector . |
| 3 | There is plenty of scope for walking or climbing in the Outer Isles and on the mainland , and the exercise is often welcome after being in the cramped quarters of a small boat . |
| 4 | The stockmarket rally that started in the last quarter of 1992 pushed up the composite share index from a low point of 459 on August 21st to 678 at the end of the year , up 11% from 12 months earlier . |
| 5 | But no-one used that label in the ninth century ; nor did Charles ever call himself king of the West Franks : his own royal title was simply " king by the grace of God " . |
| 6 | Similarly , insects and land snail shells are identified , sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains . |
| 7 | The teacher could provide containers ( boxes , drawers , jars , etc. ) , perhaps labelled with colour pictures , so that equipment can be sorted and put in the right place . |
| 8 | Mr Hughes believes it is the only such electronic game aimed at an adult market and the only one not designed and manufactured in the Far East . |
| 9 | The original Superspec was designed and built in the late 80s in a joint venture between Wimpey Homes , Wimpey Environmental and the Building Research Energy Conservation Support Unit ( BRECSU ) to look at ways of reducing the amount of energy needed to run a home . |
| 10 | We enjoyed walking and playing in the surrounding countryside . |
| 11 | Once the baby is born , bouts of anger , sulking and withdrawing in the early stages of parenthood suggest that the identification continues ; men can sometimes be as post-natally depressed as their partners . |
| 12 | All round the coast fishing provided the chief by-employment , outranking both clothing and tinning in the south-eastern quarter of the county . |
| 13 | Pine logs crackled and snapped in the small fireplace and warming dishes stood on stands at either end of the great writing desk . |
| 14 | Electricity crackled and flashed in the whole relationship , and in Vincent Van Gogh 's body , and brain . |
| 15 | In the case of this well-liked fatherly brigadier , it was common knowledge that , although he would accept his chauffeuse 's six shillings , he would then pay all other expenses in order that she would be wined , dined and accommodated in the same style as himself . |
| 16 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
| 17 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 18 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
| 19 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
| 20 | Spread on lather evenly and shave first with downward strokes , then relather and shave in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | In the official English-language biography of Nicolae Ceauşescu , published in 1983 , the subject was broached and settled in the following inimitable way : ’ ‘ I would like to ask you , ’ a journalist from abroad [ in fact Le Figaro ] asked the Romanian Head of State , — ‘ what is the role of Madame Elena Ceauşescu , who is not only your wife , but also a person with a political function : she is First Deputy prime Minister ? ' ’ |
| 22 | Most of the urgent safety spending is required on the southern half of the line , which was relaid , resignalled and electrified in the 1960s . |
| 23 | The General Election may have come and gone in the Royal County of Berkshire , as it has everywhere else , yet for months prior to the political electioneering of recent weeks , one of Gt . |
| 24 | People had come and gone in the little crowd . |
| 25 | As he turned towards the smokers ' seats , Loretta stopped and headed in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | All the good timber had been felled and sold in the 1930s and saplings had quickly crowded out the original vistas . |
| 27 | She had crossed it once before , but she knew it would be much more risky today , because the recent heavy rains would have made the surface gluey , and if she slipped or made a false step she might find herself caught and held in the treacly morass of the marsh . |
| 28 | It is not surprising , therefore , that recent Marxist explanations of power in capitalist society have tried to explain the more pluralistic modern forms of representation and policy-making in terms , not of some devious desire by the ruling class and their friends but as a limited freedom for actors and forces opposed to capitalism , which is constrained and limited in the last instance by the economic structure of the capitalist mode of production and its ideological hegemony . |
| 29 | Widgery lives and works in the front line of community medicine , conducting surgeries and home visits in an area of blight . |
| 30 | PERT and CPM are valuable when planning a project as they help the planner to ensure that all jobs have been considered and placed in the right logical sequence . |