Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sexual aspects of adult life are immensely varied and will be considered in more detail as we come to think of the client groups with which social workers deal . |
| 2 | Although histamine stimulates the incorporation of H + , K + -ATPase rich cytoplasmic tubulovesicles into the apical membrane in parietal cells , it is unclear whether a similar phenomenon occurred in HGT-1 cells as they have been shown to be devoid of secretory organelles . |
| 3 | At the moment only 2 of us are available to train in this hospital as we are the only ones ‘ certified ’ . |
| 4 | Years elapsed in his memory just as light years were elapsing in ordinary space as they fled onward . |
| 5 | In many cases a natural spray does not seem nearly as attractive when it is presented in two dimensions as it does when seen growing naturally in the wild , when of course it is viewed in three dimensions . |
| 6 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 7 | Standing awkwardly on one leg , she looked round for her other shoe and could only watch in helpless despair as she saw it slowly sink . |
| 8 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 9 | Dunbar was grinning in high content as he wheeled his horse to trot back to his own division . |
| 10 | She squeaked in simulated ecstasy as he plunged inside her . |
| 11 | Bulk minerals are needed in substantial amounts as they are used for the formation of the skeleton . |
| 12 | Rural trade unions do not feature in official statistics as they are considered illegal . |
| 13 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 14 | He said : Any contract by which a person engages to give his exclusive services to another for a period necessarily involves extensive restriction during that period of the common law right to exercise any lawful activity he chooses in such manner as he thinks best . |
| 15 | Their obsessive story is told in graphic detail as they sail merrily along on an ocean liner . |
| 16 | Indeed , surprisingly enough , Mrs Thatcher 's reputation , in the doldrums at home at least to the end of 1981 , began to grow in foreign affairs as she became more self-assured . |
| 17 | You must get used to waiting in this sport as it 's so dependent on weather conditions — it 's unsafe for beginners to fly in wind speeds over 15mph . |
| 18 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 19 | Since the colonic tissue was to be analysed by x ray diffraction for another study , BrdUrd could not be used in all animals as we had not established that the label had no effect on x ray scatter , therefore similar segments of colon to those described above were taken from all 40 rats and the DNA content of the epithelium analysed by flow cytometry . |
| 20 | I think antibiotics should be used in young animals as they can become very ill with strangles . |
| 21 | They should not be used in any quantity as they can cause stomach upsets , but are extremely useful for the presentation of nouvelle cuisine dishes . |
| 22 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 23 | In particular new potatoes should be bought in small amounts as they lose their freshness within a few days ; they should have a skin which feels damp to the touch and is easily removed by rubbing . |
| 24 | Contacts down in New Orleans at the Unix International annual members meeting , where reporters are barred , called in last week as we went to press to say that nothing substantive had happened yet that would move the industry further down the unity path . |
| 25 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 26 | This process would continue indefinitely , with reversals taking place at intervals of as little as 100,000 years or as much as one million years , but with the overall result that the compass spent about as much time pointing in one direction as it did in the other . |
| 27 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
| 28 | Berg responded by getting up too , saying he must go but popping in another question as he backed towards the door . |
| 29 | More I think ; for it is a lonely thing , and suffers in this DOMINION as I have . |
| 30 | What we want to do in this session as I said it will only take about twenty minutes , there are three key things we want to do . |