Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of his frustrations , though , he fell in love with the country and eventually made his home in Jerusalem . |
| 2 | When we identify such a structure , then it means that we can successfully explain our observations in terms of concepts that we genuinely understand already . |
| 3 | ‘ Rents should be related to the capital value of the property , thereby reflecting its popularity in market terms ’ . |
| 4 | In 1931 , Horton visited Denmark to look more closely at the Folk Schools and their relationships with the trade unions , farmers ' co-operatives , and other cultural and social movements , and though he was in part disappointed by the fact that the Folk Schools had moved away from their original aims and methods , he was able to speak to many people who were involved in this movement and added another dimension to the idea which was eventually to find its expression in Highlander . |
| 5 | relentlessly pursued his interest in vaccines . |
| 6 | Guido sat back a little , mercifully obscuring his eyelashes in shadow . |
| 7 | I 'd better answer your questions in case you 're tempted to make up the answers . ’ |
| 8 | Karenin was a direct result of that society and even before she left him she knew there was no way out because she was n't strong enough to sacrifice her position in society . |
| 9 | Cade is left in the baser medium , running for his life ( 55ff. ) , only to meet his nemesis in Alexander Iden , an esquire of Kent , who has inherited his land legitimately and envies no other man 's possessions . |
| 10 | The fact that Aoun 's position also commanded wide popular support among Lebanese otherwise determined to kill one another on sight merely reinforced his reputation in Washington as a troublemaker . |
| 11 | The reason is simple : the unemployed and unemployable have flown in to try their luck in Japan . |
| 12 | As an American I can only hang my head in shame over the Bill Clinton sex scandal . |
| 13 | As far as EuroDisney is concerned , I personally welcome its establishment in France . |
| 14 | The other half can most conveniently be received in lire ( cash please ) by William Fosdyke , an Englishman who has long made his home in Mondano and who has certain bills to discharge in relation to the property . |
| 15 | Richard only estimated his age in relationship to his duties . |
| 16 | As Citrine had earlier told his colleagues , a tactical retreat of accepting the Minister 's suggestion and then showing it to be ineffective would enable them better to assert their independence in future . |
| 17 | The CML also queried the legal basis of grant limitation in view of ‘ the Law Society 's duty not to unjustifiably fetter its discretion in respect of the operation of the fund ’ . |
| 18 | He finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |
| 19 | Cromwell commissioned Stephen Vaughan , one of the English envoys in the Low Countries , to seek out Tyndale and persuade him to return to England , hoping perhaps to enlist his pen in support of the new policies . |
| 20 | Thus Wing Commander Hodsoll , Secretary of the ARP Committee , gloomily warned his colleagues in November 1936 that ‘ certain areas have been scheduled as likely to be subject to almost continuous bombing in the event of war ’ , and similar pessimism ran through the 1938 Anderson report on evacuation . |
| 21 | Johnson , who should have known better , believed Boswell right in assuming such folk unhappy , ‘ for that they had not enough to keep their minds in motion ’ . |
| 22 | Archives in Europe seem far less concerned with the issues surrounding the preservation of the products of electronic office systems and e-mail which so exercise their counterparts in North America ( for a discussion of some of this literature see Cook : 1991–2 and Higgs : 1992 ; see also discussion in creators section of this volume ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe the French told her to act pregnant and so lengthen her stay in Scotland ! ’ |
| 24 | His ability to see through human failings , his capacity to analyse other people 's annoyingness , his rich sense of comedy and satire , had as yet only found their outlet in letters to Greeves , and to a lesser extent in such collections as P'dayta-Pie . |
| 25 | Baron von Munchausen was an eighteenth-century Hanoverian soldier who greatly exaggerated his prowess in war — and his battle-scars . |
| 26 | Soon it was not enough to demonstrate your success in life by the acquisition of material goods . |
| 27 | So we especially ask our members in Northern Ireland to review their household policies and seek an insurance appraisal and quotation before next renewal date . |
| 28 | He himself had not long left his rooms in Courtfield Gardens , chez the Vicar , Father Eric Cheetham , and settled with John Hayward in Carlyle Mansions , Chelsea . |
| 29 | This situation is far more benign than people obsessed with freedom make it sound , because what comes to us by no choice of our own is a gift — a whole world which we could not possibly have made and at which , in spite of all its horrors , we can on the whole only bow our heads in wonder . |
| 30 | The earliest parts of the church date from about 1100 , but nonconformist groups have often dominated the religious scene : Methodists , Baptists , Quakers , Salvationists have all left their mark in buildings and street names . |