Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) : |
| 2 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 3 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 4 | The 112-bhp 1.6-litre engine lives on in the entry-level £10,298 Lantra GLSi . |
| 5 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
| 6 | Maggie leans back in the easy chair . |
| 7 | ‘ Echo ’ is a useful word , for that in a way is what the poem 's metric is based on ; there is no immediate similarity of stanza-form to Bilbo 's song , but once again the ‘ elvish ’ idea of poetry comes through in an unexpected subtlety . |
| 8 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Places where the team flies around in a private jet . |
| 10 | Van Gelder said : ‘ Makes it a bit awkward , sir , does n't it , if war breaks out in the next half-hour ? ’ |
| 11 | The lottery will create at least 52 new millionaires each year , and possibly more if the weekly draw takes off in a big way . |
| 12 | European Alexandria lingers on in the Italianate architecture , the long lines of balconies along the seafront , in the old shop signs in French and Arabic , in the Greek cafes like Trianon 's and Pastroudis with their air of idleness and neglect , and in old-fashioned pensions like the Hotel Normandie . |
| 13 | " Ham " acting shows up in the slightest twitch of an eyebrow . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Dwight Yoakam twangs his way to Hammersmith Odeon IN CONCERT before Robert Palmer chills out in the sardonic surroundings of LATER WITH JOOLS HOLLAND . |
| 15 | When Christ cries out in a loud voice , ‘ My God , why hast thou forsaken me ? ’ , |
| 16 | Set beside the estuary of the river Dovey in Cardigan Bay , it is a 6,445-yard par-71 , but naturally Wee Woosie goes round in the mid-60s . |
| 17 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 18 | But as Robins points out in a later paper , a wide variety of anti-social childhood behaviour predicts a wide variety of adult deviant behaviour , rather than , as some have claimed , particular behaviour being predictive of specific offences ( e.g. conduct disorder predicting property but not person offences ) . |
| 19 | If the side that did duty this week trots out in the Italian sunshine in June , it will have an average age of 29½ , which is ill-suited to the punishing conditions of a concentrated tournament in midsummer . |
| 20 | If a claim comes in in the normal sequence of events and our adjudicating officers are asked to adjudicate , that is one matter . |
| 21 | Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein |
| 22 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 23 | A man wakes up in a beautiful room in a strange house . |
| 24 | The cells multiply and the bud grows out in a paddle-like form . |
| 25 | The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies . |
| 26 | As Patricia Monahan says ‘ oil-painting should be a journey of exploration and pleasure ’ , adding that ‘ the artist sets off in a particular direction but ends up somewhere else . ’ |
| 27 | If you make sure the butt points at the target in the initial stages , and the tip follows through in a straight line , you will acquire both distance and accuracy after only a short period of practice . |
| 28 | The benefits of the balancing , bouncing and clambering are that your body is relaxed instead of recital-rigid and the voice comes over in a strong way . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the company is working on getting Kbus-based half-gigabyte RAM boards out in the first quarter , followed 1GB boards in the second though that later date is still kind of iffy . |
| 30 | Somewhere that world carries on in a crowded theatre foyer , a cosmopolitan crowd , the women glittering with diamonds , unchanged by war , by revolution , by suffering . |