Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 2 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 3 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 4 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 5 | The test of obscenity laid down in the Obscene Publications Act 1959 derives from the common-law offence of obscene libel , which rests on |
| 6 | She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle , avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 8 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 9 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 10 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 11 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 12 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 13 | 7 What fraction of a revolution has hand B moved through in the following diagrams ? |
| 14 | But both had to give way to Larne AC 's flying doctor Peter Howie who produced his best ever run by storming through in the closing stages to grab the runner up spot . |
| 15 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 16 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 17 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 18 | And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy . |
| 19 | Rather , the idea was to see people as simultaneously subject both to natural and instinctive drives while at the same time caught up in the various forms of culture and social relations which human societies construct in a more conscious way . |
| 20 | BRITONS caught up in the horrifying riots tearing the heart out of Los Angeles told yesterday of their terror . |
| 21 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 22 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 23 | A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time . |
| 24 | It can readily be seen that the sum of constant capital ( C ) used up in the two departments is equal to the sum of means of production produced in Dept . |
| 25 | It can now be seen that the sum of constant capital used up in the two departments during the production cycle is less than the total means of production produced by Dept . |
| 26 | In Elizabethan days , three hundred years later , the solitary farm of Newton , standing upon the heath that petered out in the muddy flats of the bay , alone marked the site of Edward I 's ‘ new town ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 28 | The magistrates said the issue of compensation could be sorted out in the civil courts . |
| 29 | my song torn out in the dried flowers |
| 30 | According to the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , less than 1 per cent of research carried out in the developed countries has any significance for the developing world , and half that research effort is devoted to military and related activities . |