Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein
2 Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path .
3 Keith McPhilips , 35 , was drinking in the Restalrig Inn , Edinburgh , when he was repeatedly struck with pool cues , hit with a chair , punched and kicked and had his head jumped on in a sustained attack .
4 She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins .
5 For it is the hydrogen bonding ability of the existing chain that determines the sequence of bases laid down in a growing chain of genetic material .
6 Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example .
7 A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below .
8 Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way .
9 The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge .
10 The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack .
11 The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been .
12 By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs .
13 I do not believe there is any absolute virtue in such openness , in fact , I think that education is ideally carried on in a shared form of life where there is agreement about fundamentals and attention can be concentrated on the task in hand .
14 Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’
15 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 .
16 Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it .
17 Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it .
18 Nature Boy , on the other hand , funks along in a pleasant style and a vocal that my flatmate swears says ‘ funky nibbles ’ , but then he 's mad .
19 Cooling off in a Scottish loch : riders from the Castle Riding Centre , Argyllshire .
20 We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales .
21 She wanted to curl up in a small ball somewhere quiet , dark and safe , and stay there until she felt capable of facing the world again .
22 This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write .
23 This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before .
24 When they hit the ground , they may stop abruptly , embedding themselves still glowing , fuming and sizzling slightly in the loose ash ; or they may bounce off , to leap down the steep sides of the cone in a series of great bounds , developing a rapid spin as they do so , and whirring downhill like cannonballs , ending up in a rattling shower of small stones at the bottom .
25 ( 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 .
26 With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way .
27 Then , as he opened the door , she 'd be picked up in a big hug .
28 Perhaps the topic that worries you may be scheduled to come up in a later training session — but it happens today .
29 They are mopping up in a southerly direction .
30 The various decay products in the uranium chain are not present as they are not soluble in water , but they build up in a defined way , according to the decay rates of the individual isotopes in the chain .
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