Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rents should be related to the capital value of the property , thereby reflecting its popularity in market terms ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Guido sat back a little , mercifully obscuring his eyelashes in shadow . |
| 4 | I 'd better answer your questions in case you 're tempted to make up the answers . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As an American I can only hang my head in shame over the Bill Clinton sex scandal . |
| 7 | Richard only estimated his age in relationship to his duties . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | He finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Baron von Munchausen was an eighteenth-century Hanoverian soldier who greatly exaggerated his prowess in war — and his battle-scars . |
| 15 | Soon it was not enough to demonstrate your success in life by the acquisition of material goods . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mike Rowbottom reports on how the inmates work together to change their lives in part two of our series , Inside Story . |
| 18 | The French were crushed by the native forces and the Americans were forced to move in to take their place in order to safe-guard their investment , going a little deeper into the quicksand . |
| 19 | A flicker of something crossed his face but he said nothing , merely inclined his head in return . |
| 20 | It is as rude as spitting to turn the soles of your feet toward anyone , so stretching your legs in front of you becomes nearly impossible . |
| 21 | I give you ten years , sir , ’ he said to Havvie , ‘ but you are in bad condition , I see , so sweeten your language in future , or it will be the worse for you . ’ |
| 22 | Nigel was paid for his work , but he hated not seeing his piece in print . |
| 23 | He castigated the illustrator of Time Wasted Away for not bringing his work in line with that of Miss [ sic ] Vanessa Bell and , among other things , for depicting the sun as an eight-pointed starfish in the sky . |
| 24 | WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ] |
| 25 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 26 | Over 4000 members have already given their verdict in favour of the club 's ‘ fabulous facilities manifesto ’ and its dual function , ( tennis ' double whammy , if you like ! ) , that of meeting all member needs while maintaining a warm and welcoming atmosphere within the club 's spacious acres . |
| 27 | The existing centre at Northwick Park in north-west London , has not developed its research in collaboration with hospital work , as once hoped , and is to be phased out . |
| 28 | The German industry was already outstripping its rivals in innovation , and the British companies combined their strength to avert global German dominance . |
| 29 | A discourse analyst may regularly work with extended extracts of conversational speech , for example , but he does not consider his data in isolation from the descriptions and insights provided by sentence-grammarians . |
| 30 | The young in West Belfast know their rights in relation to the RUC and British army , but they do not know their rights in relation to jobs . |