Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These are usually presented as small corners made up in the particular moulding to give you an idea of the finished effect , but any reputable framer will be able to answer any questions you have , as well as give you plenty of sound advice should you need it . |
| 32 | 7 What fraction of a revolution has hand B moved through in the following diagrams ? |
| 33 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 34 | Peace came about in the 1680s through Teleut exhaustion . |
| 35 | Ruth flopped back in the lounger and studied the vapour trail through half-closed eyes . |
| 36 | The creation of air-mobile strategic reserves could lead , they thought , to a reduction in static overseas garrisons ; and the replacement of troop-ships by trooping-aircraft should also save manpower locked up in the trooping pipeline . |
| 37 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 38 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
| 39 | Rob 's laughter rang out in the cosy room , the faint white lines around his eyes wrinkling against his winter tan . |
| 40 | The engine ticked over in the chilly air . |
| 41 | This might explain why the universe started off in the big bang in almost perfect thermal equilibrium , because thermal equilibrium would correspond to the largest number of microscopic configurations and hence the greatest probability . |
| 42 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 43 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 44 | As the many Ontario lines stretched out in the 1870s and 1880s , dozens of new stations were built . |
| 45 | Given the philosophy set out in the previous section it is essential that the Senior Administrative Assistant have able and experienced Principal Officers who they can turn to and that such Principal Officers should not be overstretched by dealing with individual cases but are available to direct and manage operations . |
| 46 | Karen sat down in the soft , dark sand and let the ripples of cold Atlantic water wash round her thighs . |
| 47 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 48 | Balanced growth incidence requires that , and from these equations it is possible to examine the effect of different combinations of taxes , taking account of the equivalence set out in the preceding paragraph . |
| 49 | The Princess stood out in the cold and waited . |
| 50 | By contrast with what it saw as the corrosive and unbelieving spirit of the age , that movement was deeply concerned to recover and reinstate the ancient doctrines of the faith , especially the great dogmas hammered out in the early centuries ; and with them to restore the sense of continuity and rich unbroken tradition which found its expression especially in ritual and liturgy . |
| 51 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 52 | Sailors in the US Navy of the 1920s who returned from leave with more than they bargained for after dallying with the local ladies faced a set medical routine laid down in The Medical Annual : |
| 53 | In Honduras , the pressures of a growing debt crisis built up in the late 1980s . |
| 54 | Trailing 2-0 to the Second Division high-flyers , Wycombe bounced back in the last 20 minutes to force a replay with goals from skipper Glyn Creaser and Steve Thompson , a corporal in the RAF . |
| 55 | This came partly from that confidence built up in the wide affection of the large family , partly perhaps from the arrogance of the supreme athlete , mostly , though , from his view that writing and learning were the real thing : acting was fine and dandy but not in the same league . |
| 56 | Mickey Harkin 's Chats team came through in the round leading up to the interval with a score of 12 points . |
| 57 | If war broke out in the Far East ‘ our present forces in Korea would be a military liability and could not be maintained there without substantial reinforcement prior to the initiation of hostilities ’ . |
| 58 | The people of Cerska are among tens of thousands of Muslims encircled by Serbs in eastern Bosnia since civil war broke out in the former Yugoslav republic last March . |
| 59 | In October 1973 war broke out in the Middle East . |
| 60 | Back in time for our encore at Wembley ( well , after six nights , you do tend to get a bit lax , and anyway , the tapes went on in the right order and the dry ice was great ) . |