Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 2 | Some years later , when it was apparent that my daughter would not recover from her poliomyelitis , I felt that it would no longer be possible to continue serving in the Royal Navy , which entailed long periods of separation from my home . |
| 3 | The aim of the project is to document and interpret the complex relationship between gender roles , family structures and marriage ceremonial and the ways each has changed in the twentieth century . |
| 4 | It was only recently a town that offered waged work for women , though much of that has disappeared in the past few years , and it was never a town that invited black workers . |
| 5 | All that has changed in the past year . |
| 6 | The increasing switch to populist methods , and the threats to public order and the political anti-semitism with which this became associated in the public mind , meant that Mosley 's movement went increasingly beyond the pale . |
| 7 | Nowhere else does this phrase occur in the Old Testament except in 12.1 . |
| 8 | This has resulted in the gradual piling up of the Himalayas . |
| 9 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 10 | It appears to be quite selective as to which fish it invades , some becoming covered in the mutated cells into which the virus has incorporated its own genetic material , others escaping . |
| 11 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 12 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 13 | This had begun in the late thirteenth century , and the edicts were falling thick and fast under Philip the Fair in the early fourteenth century . |
| 14 | The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 15 | The transportation of useful plants from one part of the world to another had begun in the eighteenth century , and we saw in the previous chapter how Kew Gardens became the hub of the British empire 's efforts to replace indigenous species with imported ones of greater commercial value . |
| 16 | By way of postscript to these observations , some have discerned in the latest Soviet systems a greater introduction of new technology than is normally the pattern : a reflection , perhaps , of greater design confidence , but just as possibly the expression of worry about the pace of technological change in the present decade . |
| 17 | It also should help determine why there was little organized stealing in the central highlands in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | The company said it was ‘ pointless to continue to compete in the overcrowded , heavily discounted and ultimately unprofitable air package holidays business ’ . |
| 19 | Andrew Johnson , general manager of AA Travel , said : ‘ It frankly became pointless to continue to compete in the overcrowded , heavily discounted and ultimately unprofitable air-package holidays business . ’ |
| 20 | Not too much has appeared in the public prints on the conference , but Reuter reporters Russell Blinch and Judith Crosson have been on the spot taking it all down ; this page is compiled from their reports . |
| 21 | Much has changed in the European energy picture over the past decade and much will change over the next two , yet one central preoccupation persists and will persist , and that is Europe 's dependence on imported oil . |
| 22 | ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’ |
| 23 | There was n't much welcome to overstay in the various snack parlours where he lingered ( and where he moreover imagined himself unfavourably recollected from his previous TLM vigils , holding with both hands the creaky Styrofoam container , and watching the light pour past the office windows . |
| 24 | Any model struck by a cannon ball takes a strength 10 hit resolved in the normal manner . |
| 25 | Any model struck by a cannon ball takes a strength 10 hit resolved in the normal manner . |
| 26 | According to statistics provided by human rights and business organizations , 1,598 Guatemalans had been murdered , 2,517 had suffered bodily harm and 906 had disappeared in the first six months of 1989 . |
| 27 | Fourteen-year-old Sabine had remained in the roomy attic which had been hers since nursery days . |
| 28 | Of the seven warmest years in the 20th century ( which were , in order , 1990 , 1988 , 1983 , 1987 , 1944 , 1989 and 1981 ) six had occurred in the last decade . |
| 29 | These began to flourish in the early 1970s , and by 1975 there were 185 . |
| 30 | Are they likely to contribute to profit in the long term ? |