Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whereas in Victorian England the provision of libraries was not seen as a matter of political contention , in modern England the political factor has operated directly in the closure and cutbacks of libraries . |
| 32 | When Ramlal emerged the sun has risen higher in the sky and the stones of the temple courtyard were already hot . |
| 33 | Wanchai used to be the hostess-bar district , but it has moved up in the world and is now home to one of the colony 's classiest new hotels , The Grand Hyatt ( ) . |
| 34 | The introduction of new services will always be part of our strategy and as I said last time the water saving service has moved well in the year . |
| 35 | The chemical , which is about 150 times as toxic as cyanide , has turned up in the soil and in waters that flow into the Mississippi River at levels up to several hundred times those thought to be safe . |
| 36 | She noted , however , that cotenine , a substance that the body can break down only from nicotine , has turned up in the semen of smokers . |
| 37 | More recently he has turned up in The Fisher King and At Play in the Fields of the Lord , and he has a small role in Coppola 's forthcoming Dracula . |
| 38 | Farloe Melody , bidding for his third appearance in the Derby final — he won it two years ago — has missed out in the trap draw for heat 15 . |
| 39 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |
| 40 | In one sense , this is not easy , for the archaeologist has done less in the hill towns of Italy than in England . |
| 41 | The Committee has done so in the past , but the Government have taken no notice . |
| 42 | Solvent can kill and has done so in the past . ’ |
| 43 | All of which brings us to his latest film , Breaking In , the first he has made entirely in the USA . |
| 44 | Garside ( 1988 ) has shown how in the period 1919–23 civil servants wrestled with the requirement to indicate action , but without generating demands that could not be satisfied . |
| 45 | I then tell them a story which they act out : one day the children all set off home only to find that a great big hole has opened up in the playground . |
| 46 | For most of the past decade at least one major thoroughfare in the city centre has been shut to traffic while workmen repair a large hole that has opened up in the tarmac after the collapse of one of the old brick sewers beneath . |
| 47 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 48 | Virginia Rushton the soprano will be accompanied on piano by Elizabeth Bicker who , is well known throughout Ireland and has performed widely in the U.K. including in Sir Harry Secombe 's ‘ Highway ’ programme . |
| 49 | Parrish has acted before in the theatre though , landing a couple of solid psycho parts essentially not a lot different from the Fritz character — who changes his name to Eli and then Bud as he escapes across the country having gunned down the demonic rich bitch Twinkle ( one of Sean Young 's better performances ) . |
| 50 | Fighting in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has intensified meanwhile in the run-up to the latest round of peace talks over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 51 | In the borders , there 's some in , in England but er that , that family has died out in the borders . |
| 52 | A country-lover who spent most of his life in the great outdoors has died suddenly in the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 53 | She gave up teaching to start a family and now , one son and one daughter later , has restarted again in the London area . |
| 54 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 55 | GREG MACKEY , Warrington 's Australian scrum-half who came as a two-month stop-gap but has figured prominently in the club 's unbeaten start , has agreed to spend the full season at Wilderspool , writes Paul Wilson . |
| 56 | A whole new service industry — office design — has sprung up in the city , and the demand for furniture , secretaries and commercial space has pushed up prices . |
| 57 | The government has set out in the Patient 's Charter the principles on which the NHS is based . |
| 58 | The trade balance , after oscillating between surplus and deficit in the 1970s , has stuck obstinately in the red since 1981 . |
| 59 | Microsoft has lagged behind in the memory of management stakes , so you can expect to find that EMM386 has been beefed up , particularly in the optimizing department , rather like QEMM386 or 386MAX . |
| 60 | The party fared badly at the election in April last year , and Craxi 's name has appeared regularly in the inquiries . |