Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 2 | This expanded dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 3 | She would have got soaked had they stayed any longer , and Ven was quite right to see it was not sensible to amble around in the pouring rain . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's funny to sit here in the warm sunshine , and think of all that going on here over the centuries . ’ |
| 5 | They were piled haphazardly , some put back in the wrong sleeves , and were mainly recordings of Italian opera . |
| 6 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 7 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 8 | Most of the true species are single-flowers , and seldom bloom beyond the one initial burst — this showed out in the early English crosses . |
| 9 | But it would be wrong to stress either in the middle ages or in the sixteenth century — the significance of parliamentary opposition . |
| 10 | Some developed differently in the American context . |
| 11 | A few of these papers became firmly established ( and the latter helped kill the London evenings ) , but more , including some founded later in the 1970s ( such as the Chelmsford Evening Herald and the Guildford Daily Advertiser ) , did not survive long into the 1980s . |
| 12 | The roots of this belong not in the New Testament but in Latin legalism . |
| 13 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 14 | This works out in the holy redemption and holy wrath of the Passover ( Exodus 12 ) . |
| 15 | Major Match was favourite to follow up in the latest running of the Kempton contest , but had a rough time , getting knocked around before trailing in last behind Far Senior . |
| 16 | But even though Lewis used him for target practice with heavy right crosses and upper-cuts , he could not floor the durable American , who took a standing eight count early in the fourth round . |
| 17 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 18 | And now the effort of hiding that failure was too much to bear here in the sunlit garden . |
| 19 | Articles on BS 5750 appear regularly in the educational and general press nowadays and there is a growing interest in the application of the British Standard to the service industries . |
| 20 | The development of an elite theory which dared to call itself such came about in the late nineteenth century as a reaction particularly against the radical egalitarian democratic ideals of Karl Marx and the Western European socialist movements . |
| 21 | And secondly , and very much wrapped up in the same point with this , they 're also coy about the sort of people they 're looking for . |
| 22 | It struck Nutty that he had no time to take cars for joy-rides any longer , content to flake out in the thick straw in a corner of Firelight 's box after evenings of running and riding and swimming . |
| 23 | Council houses were sold and buses ‘ deregulated ’ ( although the housing association sector seems set to expand dramatically in the 1990s ) , but the bulk of existing public housing remained in council hands , and public transport has always been run on a semi-market basis , with the charging of fares coupled with separately identified public subsidy . |
| 24 | ‘ I know I have seen three plays already in the magnificent splendour of the Opera House . |
| 25 | Software of this quality is hard to find even in the commercial market so Talking Teacher is sure to prove a popular choice with parents of younger children . |
| 26 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 27 | Maid Of Money , 12-1 , will also go for the Gold Cup but they are likely to meet again in the Black and White Gold Cup at Leopardstown . |
| 28 | Mr Taylor and Rick Parry , the Premier League chief executive , who spent much of the weekend trying to thrash out an agreement on the telephone , are likely to meet again in the next 48 hours . |
| 29 | Spending on these rose steadily in the sixties . |
| 30 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |