Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd of 7,000 — Aberdeen 's lowest of the season — had little to enthuse over in a drab second half in which Aberdeen had several excellent chances but displayed their old failing of not converting demonstrable outfield superiority into goals . |
| 2 | One answer is that studies of comprehension are generally very much easier to carry out in a controlled way than studies of spontaneous production . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ' . |
| 7 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 8 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 9 | Even now , however , he is prepared to accept that he may not be able to come back in a new guise after three years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 11 | If you do venture by car on to the edge of Otmoor , there is the feeling that you will be unable to turn around in the narrow space between the dykes , or may get stuck up to the axles in mud . |
| 12 | If it becomes obvious during the base leg or final turn that you are far too high to be able to get down in the chosen field , it is often possible to make an S-turn to use up some of the height . |
| 13 | At least , he was unhurt and able to move around in the considerable space available to him . |
| 14 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 15 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 16 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 17 | The farm uses a variety of chemical packs , including powders like Goltix in packs , occasional metal cans for Metasystox , bags of manganese , water-soluble packs and oily sprays like Optica which can be difficult to hose out in a conventional way . |
| 18 | For funding reasons , health service membership of the teams was slow to build up in the early 1980s and key actors in the local health services were never entirely happy with the developmental role assigned to the CMHTs . |
| 19 | Heavily-backed to follow up in a Listed event at Newmarket last month , King 's Signet was exposed for pace in the closing stages by Stack Rock and Garah . |
| 20 | The most serious problems over credit use — sometimes an extreme manifestation of one of the general problems , such as the relationship between ignorance , high-cost credit use , and over-commitment ; sometimes something quite distinct — are too rare to show up in a quantifiable way in a sample survey such as ours . |
| 21 | But Lydia had discovered , to her own surprise , that she found the matter too significant to quarrel about in a childish way . |
| 22 | The Sheffield Wednesday defender last night confirmed that he 's ready to bounce back in the live TV match with Spurs exactly 12 days after a horror collision . |
| 23 | For only when one is able to discriminate between what must be discarded and what still remains as valuable for the future will one also be able to decide whether one is ready to strike out in the new direction consciously and positively . |