Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the active substances used for rheumatic conditions also appear in the 100 or so painkilling preparations available . |
| 2 | Down was one of the outstanding medical students of his generation , and his decision to work in the neglected and perhaps despised field of mental deficiency was courageous . |
| 3 | The use of timber frame in house building quadrupled in the 1970s and nearly half a million houses were built by this method . |
| 4 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The doubt could be whispered in the 1930s , shouted in the 1940s and tacitly accepted as an established truth in the 1950s . |
| 6 | The probability that a fetus will be aborted appears to increase in a linear or nearly geometric fashion with pregnancy order ( Table A. 12 ) . |
| 7 | One player , Malta 's Jon Buhagiar , was booked in a tough and often uncompromising affair in which Scotland 's impressive central defensive pairing of Stephen Wright and Kevin Bain always looked in command . |
| 8 | The article concludes that what is now required is not only a consolidation but also a rethinking of educational interventions if issues of racism , ethnicity and cultural difference are to be adequately addressed in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 9 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 10 | However , reversal from left to right visual field superiority was observed by Kaufer , Morais and Bertelson ( 1975 ) when they investigated the effect of presenting a Landolt 's ring at fixation for subjects to report the position of a small gap in the ring prior to recalling the stimuli presented in the left and right visual fields . |
| 11 | The problem here , as far as I can see , is not so much the definition of fictionality in itself , but the fact that such a definition is applied in a rigid and almost prescriptive fashion , with little consideration for the way in which texts are actually perceived in their own contexts of production and reception . |
| 12 | This particularly applied in the hundred or so religious houses of royal foundation but by the early fourteenth century the king was extending the custom to the newly elect of other institutions ; not less frequently he requested a corrody ( or board and lodging ) for an ageing royal clerk or household servant . |
| 13 | In comparison there has been very little work on the psychology of masculinity and the nature of male identity , although both men ( and women ) are becoming increasingly interested in the forms masculinity might assume in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 14 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 15 | Who would have thought that the terribly modern Carter would end up having a crack at the Christmas Number One with a song written in the 1950s and once covered by Elvis Presley ? |
| 16 | Just around the corner from Sion House they found a narrow five-story terraced house built in the 1840s but impeccably Georgian in every other respect . |
| 17 | Some houses , particularly those built in the 1930s and before , still have a predominantly lead system . |
| 18 | Like Shawell school , St Peter 's was built in the 1860s and so preceded the Elementary Education Act of 1870 that called for large numbers of schools , mainly in crowded urban areas , to be built with public rather than private money . |
| 19 | The Park — itself unmentioned by Pevsner — had been built in the 1870s and greatly enlarged in the years after 1883 . |
| 20 | For a few weeks the controversy featured in the national and even international press , up-market newspapers carrying spicy stories about the leading protagonists and confused attempts to explain the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism to the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 21 | The fact that women have decided to participate in the difficult but just struggle of El Salvador has meant that they have developed politically and ideologically and that there have been many changes in men 's attitudes , After the triumph , I believe these changes will become more apparent . |
| 22 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |
| 23 | Some of the attempts at peacemaking the churches in Ireland are making may seem worrying may seem politically subversive but how will we respond to the longing for peace to the desire for reconciliation for the hope the stakes that will result in a permanent and just solution ? |
| 24 | Musgrave owes his reputation to the role he played in the complicated and imperfectly understood politics of the western Anglo-Scottish borders during the 1530s . |
| 25 | In the Heine settings , sung in a different and more logical order than that in the Peters Edition , it is the stark immediacy of the readings that strikes home and once more Fassbaender 's colouring and/or illuminating of individual words , such as the darkening of tone at ‘ Der Schiffer ’ in ‘ Die Stadt ’ or the emphasis on ‘ längst ’ and ‘ Platz ’ in ‘ Der Doppelgänger ’ , which would seem to be the appropriate hair-raising climax of this arresting interpretation until one hears the harsh defiance of ‘ Der Atlas ’ . |
| 26 | The principal linguistic effects of the given-new distinction , in English and perhaps all languages , reduce to the fact that given information is conveyed in a weaker and more attenuated manner than new information . |
| 27 | Close examination of the QCs appointed during the 1980s , from whom most of the judiciary will be drawn in the nineties and beyond , reveals that the old pattern has scarcely changed . |
| 28 | While the Council for British Archaeology 's Philip Thatz stated in an honest but politically inept way what treasure hunters have been saying for years that … |
| 29 | The discovery of the three devices in the past two days may mark a reappearance of the ‘ tartan terrorism ’ which flared in the 1970s and mostly disappeared as the perpetrators of various bank robberies and explosions were jailed . |
| 30 | The audience knew it too — it showed in the polite but faintly puzzled round of applause , far less enthusiastic than she normally received . |