Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as for trade , it will be encouraged by it every way ; for carriage of all kind of heavy goods will be much easier , the waggoners will either perform in less time , or draw heavier loads , or the same load with fewer horses ; the pack-horses will carry heavier burthens , or travel further in a day … all which will tend to lessen the rate of carriage , and so bring goods cheaper to market . |
| 2 | or fixed perpetually in a frame … |
| 3 | Those who fail or do poorly in an examination , or some other competitive test , find consolation in the wiles of witchcraft . |
| 4 | It can be torn up and stuffed into awkward shapes ; cut to size and layered ; and used on the horizontal or held vertically in a grid . |
| 5 | Providers will be able to offer these HN Units as part of an HNC or HND course , as free standing units or grouped together in a way that will meet a particular local or individual need . |
| 6 | There are obviously more overheads when the client group is geographically dispersed rather than grouped together in a home . |
| 7 | In this garden annuals and bedding are used particularly well as they are dotted around perennials and shrubs , rather than grown together in a bedding scheme . |
| 8 | There 's often a lot of hot air spoken about airbags — you know , the devices that inflate rapidly in an accident — but one things for sure , they certainly help save lives . |
| 9 | Last year Volvo also won the Prince Michael Road Safety Award for safety belt tensioners that operate automatically in a collision , and its 700-series car was declared the safest in an accident following crash-testing in 199 different vehicles by the American Highway Loss Data Institute . |
| 10 | Surely that 's better than fading away in a hospital bed somewhere ? |
| 11 | Two new models — the 512TR and the gorgeous and all-new 456GT — created further interest in a model line that endures even in a recession ’ |
| 12 | From a spy to a slimy toad and from this to a serpent Satan moves , crawling on his belly in the dust rather than standing upright in a pool of fire . |
| 13 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 14 | You will need the ability to initiate and carry out original research and to work effectively in a team . |
| 15 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 16 | report and summarise effectively in a range of contexts ; |
| 17 | The victims , many of them homeless , were blinded and torn apart in a frenzy of violence . |
| 18 | Put cleaners and bleach together in a cupboard with a child safety catch . |
| 19 | Still dazed , Mrs Lomax put the car into gear and drove slowly in a semi-circle , back to the rough track that led away from the Monument . |
| 20 | They were brought in shiploads and bundled away in an institution which a Swiss newspaper recently called ‘ an antechamber of death ’ and a British journal ‘ a modern entrance to Hades ’ . |
| 21 | We left Simone and Yves behind in a trail of dust just outside Geneva . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It must be awful being old and put away in a home because no one will have you at home and look after you . ’ |
| 23 | The answer you gave to the question may have been brilliant and put together in a language marked by brevity and clarity . |
| 24 | We live , write and speak today in a world of free and democratized languages ; the complex and multilevelled hierarchy of discourses , forms , images , styles that used to permeate the entire system of official language and official consciousness was swept away by the linguistic revolutions of the Renaissance … . |
| 25 | In females it generally consists of a group of stout bristles which lies beneath the extended fore Wing and engages there in a retinaculum formed from a patch of hairs near the cubitus . |
| 26 | Boil the sugar and syrup together in a saucepan for 3 minutes . |
| 27 | Tait puckered his lips and nodded slowly in a gesture of admiration . |
| 28 | He dreaded her reaction : seeing her wriggle and flick her tail and swim away in a sea of lies — or seeing her pop like a burst balloon . |
| 29 | We were turned , lifted , pushed , lowered , pressed and turned again in a direction that could n't be guessed , only feared . |
| 30 | I cancelled the afternoon 's lessons and returned home in a daze , cursing the Allies and hoping that they would be better behaved if they ever came to liberate us . |