Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
2 | This brings up a dialogue box , where you type in the necessary alterations . |
3 | The adult worms , bright red in colour and up to 2.5 cm in length , are easily recognised at necropsy where they predominate in the horny lining of the gizzard . |
4 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
5 | Notice that it is customary to indicate the parameters best varied to achieve balance by drawing an arrow through them where they appear in the double balance equations , as done here . |
6 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
7 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
8 | I was a bit bored this lunchtime , so I though I 'd type in a bit of a report that I read in the Daily Mail about the Hibs game . |
9 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
10 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
11 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
12 | I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport . |
13 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
14 | A small orchestra was playing ‘ Lights of Moscow ’ and the waiters were clattering metal dishes and semaphoring with table napkins , and there was the air of subdued hysteria that you get in a big theatre when the orchestra is tuning up . |
15 | Also , primary schools are more adaptable erm they have n't got the constraints ; they have n't got the syllabuses to get through ; they have n't got exams at the end of the year ; they have n't got to the sort of subject departmentalization that you get in a secondary school . |
16 | Anything that you design in the ORIGINAL shaping section can of course be saved on to disk for future use . |
17 | As with the STANDARD version , shapes that you design in the ORIGINAL section can be superimposed on to stitch patterns created in the COLOUR PATTERN section . |
18 | It may be an idea to check out any varieties that you fancy in a reputable book — some are hard to grow and need lots of light ; other plants are still being sold that are really bog plants and should not be grown submerged . |
19 | I would suggest that you build in a few nice easy open questions at the beginning of the session . |
20 | The New York graffiti craze , which meant just spray-painting your name again and again , was the most basic , single-minded assertion that you exist in an indifferent world . |
21 | It 's called time , it gives you a little space at the top so you can fill in what you feel to be your role , and if you can fill below , all the tasks in respective order that you do in a typical day . |
22 | He then drifted gloomily away , noting that this could not be ‘ an open-ended matter that you do in an idealistic whim ’ . |
23 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
24 | It is very rare that we disagree as an industry , but it is equally rare that we speak in a co-ordinated way , ’ he said . |
25 | To make sure that we 're able to put our point across clearly so that we speak in a clear way so that people do n't have any er doubts as to what you actually mean . |
26 | Later decades have seen other organizations use the term so that we speak in the twentieth century about the trade union ‘ movement ’ or the ‘ peace movement ’ ; we seldom think to describe the Conservative Party , the Confederation of British Industry or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as ‘ movements ’ . |
27 | The contrast is striking , and can not be dismissed as irrelevant to the social and other problems that we confront in the last decade of our century . |
28 | It is to such practical questions that we turn in the final chapter . |
29 | It is to these questions that we turn in the next section . |
30 | These have been loosely termed ‘ universalist ’ theories of language , since the basic tenet is that there are universal structures of grammar and especially of syntax , in which all people have ‘ competence ’ and which underlie and make possible the different utterances that we observe in the actual practice of language . |