Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar findings were observed with prostacyclin either applied locally or given systemically in the coronary artery of dog ( Aiken et al , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Japanese security experts say the survivors are demoralised , middle-aged revolutionaries without strong support or influence either in the Middle East or Japan . |
| 3 | Hastening importantly past are certain to be scores of the varnished wooden launches that are the cabs of Venice , their occupants talking hard inside if they are Venetians , or reclining ecstatically in the open sterns if visitors . |
| 4 | When included , the inner shape was taken to be a hole or cut out in the total shape . |
| 5 | The 12 points may be identified and copied to an adjoining layer ( to aid clarity ) or operated directly in the original view . |
| 6 | Credit and debt repayments for housing , fuel , furniture and children 's clothes tend to have first call on the income , being deducted from benefit at source or paid early in the weekly budgeting cycle . |
| 7 | In other words , thirty-six ( or about two-thirds ) of the families that were resident in Willingham in 1575 had either moved or died out in the male line during the course of a century and a half . |
| 8 | She crouched as the great flock screamed past her , wings humming ; some of them tangled in the trees , a few panicked as they shattered themselves against the stone of the fortress , or flew frantically in the confined space of the room ; but most of them circled above her head , then streamed away to the south , lost against the fading luminescence of the sky . |
| 9 | Walking about at night in the streets of Calcutta and of necessity stepping over emaciated bodies too lethargic to move , or visiting refugee shacks in beautiful Hong Kong , or standing helplessly in the filthy slums of Kampala , always the same agony and anger assailed me as it did on that cold morning in Kiel . |
| 10 | The Queen had convenanted not to give licence to any others to search or dig etc. in the eight counties reserved , or in Wales , and that none would search without consent of the patentees , and that she would " deface and distroy all tools , instruments &c. save only of the Patentees . " |
| 11 | The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice — swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money . |
| 12 | Although situated entirely in the Libyan section of the continental shelf , 10 per cent of the revenue from the field would be devoted to joint projects , including one to connect the two countries ' power grids , a 300-km motorway between Ras Jedir on the border and Sfax in Tunisia , and a pipeline linking the Libyan refinery in Zuwarah , 200 km west of Tripoli , with the Tunisian port of Zarzis . |
| 13 | erm There 's probably two-thirds of the logging that goes on in the tropical forest , which is about 5 million hectares a year erm is of that nature , so that the forest is left to recover after the logging has gone through . |
| 14 | To adapt Orwell 's last sentence , it is almost impossible to say which was which , so profound and intimate are the links that bind the intellectual socialism of the early twentieth century to the National Socialism that sought confidently in the 1930s to replace it . |
| 15 | He wanted ‘ the greatest value in the smallest compass ’ ; he wanted an animal that weighed most in the best cuts and that quickly repaid the outlay on its food . |
| 16 | In Elizabethan days , three hundred years later , the solitary farm of Newton , standing upon the heath that petered out in the muddy flats of the bay , alone marked the site of Edward I 's ‘ new town ’ . |
| 17 | What is interesting to note about both the theory of public choice and Chicago School economic analysis of law is that their analyses , although wrapped up in the analytical apparatus of modern economics , reach more or less identical conclusions to Hayek . |
| 18 | For it seems pointless to revalue a tradition that exists only in the feminist folklinguistic imagination . |
| 19 | Today , her Royal Highness Nick Hinton and his team will talk about the very impressive work and the tasks that lie ahead in the fifty countries and the U K in which Save The Children operates . |
| 20 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 21 | I still hold the view , though , that meddling in access has resulted in less access than existed before in the good old ‘ de facto ’ days . |
| 22 | The great extension of astronomical observations that began early in the 1960s brought about a revival of interest in the classical theory of general relativity because it seemed that many of the new phenomena that were being discovered , such as quasars , pulsars , and compact X-ray sources , indicated the existence of very strong gravitational fields — fields that could be described only by general relativity . |
| 23 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 24 | Although spectacular fossils such as dinosaurs are not preserved in Wales , specimens from other regions help to emphasize the rich diversity of life that existed elsewhere in the distant past |
| 25 | It smashed spectacularly against the the stone rim below , splintering the air and Robyn 's nerves with its crash , forcing a cry from her surprised lips that echoed eerily in the dark night . |
| 26 | The ‘ Golden Ring ’ is an eleven-day journey from Leningrad to Moscow , travelling through the ninth and eleventh-century fortified towns that sprang up in the central and north- eastern regions of Russia . |
| 27 | As she headed for the path that crossed the garden to the pool and then on to the pine forest and olive grove , she heard one solitary , impassioned call that hung hauntingly in the hot air . |
| 28 | Mike Pumfrey had wondered whether the two of them might sit and talk things over in the two easy chairs stained , dusty , pre-war relics , that squatted capaciously in the far corner of the study . |
| 29 | And why did the band have to choose that precise moment to play a waltz so that , rather than dancing apart in the modern way , he was drawing her closer , moulding her to the lean , taut length of him ? |
| 30 | It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin . |