Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although my right hon. Friend the Member for Worthing ( Mr. Higgins ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham ( Sir P. Hordern ) mentioned in interventions yesterday a situation in my county of West Sussex which is replicated in many other local authority areas , there should be an opportunity — within order — to raise matters of concern and to obtain assurances from Ministers about them . |
| 2 | It may be of interest to note that 760 years after this visit there is living in Halling today a person whose grandfather , Robert Langton , a friend and biographer of Charles Dickens , claimed descent from the family of this Archbishop . |
| 3 | ‘ Strange , ’ Benedicta mused ‘ I meant to tell you , Brother , Lady Maude was seen in Southwark over a week ago . |
| 4 | It is amazing that in this age of guitar exotica , courtesy of PRS , Valley Arts and so on , most players can not help but become romantic and misty-eyed about an old Strat — even one that was made in Japan only a month or so ago . |
| 5 | It happened in Germany about a year ago . |
| 6 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , chairman of Ferranti , and some other directors of the troubled group are said to be ready to resign in February once a share issue to raise £187 million in finance for the group is agreed by shareholders .. |
| 7 | You can swing your leg round , move it outwards it 's a simple ball and socket joint and it 's used in engineering quite a bit is n't it ? |
| 8 | : ’ Speaking in London almost a year after becoming Chairman of British Coal , Mr. Clarke said — What we are seeing is a sort of energy arms race , with attempts to justify it on the grounds of guaranteeing security , diversity and competition — but in reality , guaranteeing nothing but higher electricity prices , a rapid abandonment of other fuel reserves , and reliance on as yet unproven overseas resources . ' |
| 9 | Where conditions of poverty and dependency and harmonious and pervasive personal relationships continue to predominate in agriculture then a source of ambiguity is present in the farm worker 's perceptions of the world around him . |
| 10 | However , the instruction manual , though extremely comprehensive , is written in that awful Americanese which makes similar pamphlets printed in Japan almost a pleasure to read ! |
| 11 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 12 | Well what what you could do is put in brackets somewhere a list of accents you can think of so that if people really do n't know what to do . |
| 13 | For someone who is only moderately active , that could mean a 7- or 8 lb ( 3- or 3.5-kg ) increase in weight over a year . |
| 14 | I work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal . |
| 15 | It needs time to regain its normal elasticity and reduce in size so a period of loose stools is often desirable . |
| 16 | interesting to hear about India , about tea , because er my daughter is working in India quite a lot and it is very high poverty for people . |
| 17 | The Ninth Council ended in deadlock so a compromise had to be reached . |