Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup . |
| 2 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 3 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
| 4 | Downstairs , when Jessica had stormed out , her parents had found themselves remarkably constrained by the stranger in their midst . |
| 5 | Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital . |
| 6 | In the emergence of this ‘ young generation ’ of independent means lies the early identification of the sector of the population which was to be so effectively targeted by the market in the postwar era . |
| 7 | Creatures were not necessarily placed on the earth in the form in which they appeared now . |
| 8 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 9 | A system of mandatory fees was long justified by the RIBA in terms of both protecting architects from the power of clients and ensuring that design standards were maintained by guaranteeing architects a reasonable return for their work . |
| 10 | Craftsmanship in wood , leathern iron and silver was quite highly developed among the Yakuts in the seventeenth century , and they were almost the only north Siberian people to make pottery . |
| 11 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 12 | Invading fans are not only repulsed by the occupants in defence of their home ‘ turf ’ , but also by the police in their pursuit of law and order and the status quo . |
| 13 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 14 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
| 15 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 16 | The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms . |
| 17 | That joint reading perhaps lies behind the appeal in Walahfrid 's prologue that the quest for wisdom be revived and widened " in modern times " . |
| 18 | States escaped relatively unscathed last year ; not so cities and counties , which are less constrained by the law in matters of budgetary irresponsibility . |
| 19 | Mr and Mrs Maughan — who only moved to the house in King 's Heath , Birmingham , a month ago — were being comforted by relatives . |
| 20 | Your former employer should pay the amount so claimed by the Department in respect of social security benefits that you have received . |
| 21 | It merely adds to the deprivation in the world . |
| 22 | She was a large , cheerful lady with bad varicose ulcers which she was constantly banging against the furniture in her house on non-Varicose Vein Clinic days . |
| 23 | At very least this habit will get us out of a rigid frame of mind which only looks at the problem in away determined by experience . |
| 24 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 25 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 26 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 27 | One of them , it was pointed out to him , was the great ex-Soviet chess player , Korchnoi , who is apparently training with the team in order to reach maximum physical fitness for his world title challenge to his arch-rival , the darling of the Soviets , Karpov . |
| 28 | Missionary interest had been greatly stirred by the work in training ordinands in what was then the Gold Coast , by Dom Bernard Clements OSB . |
| 29 | He may have been pleased to get the job — but he was only shot into the spot in order to stand up for good , Christian , family values and to restore party morale in Cecil 's wake . |
| 30 | Cold water can hold a higher percentage of dissolved gases which , when suddenly warmed by the water in the aquarium or pond , will be released and cause supersaturation . |