Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv] in a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | report and summarise effectively in a range of contexts ; |
| 4 | Put cleaners and bleach together in a cupboard with a child safety catch . |
| 5 | ‘ It must be awful being old and put away in a home because no one will have you at home and look after you . ’ |
| 6 | The answer you gave to the question may have been brilliant and put together in a language marked by brevity and clarity . |
| 7 | 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 … . |
| 8 | Boil the sugar and syrup together in a saucepan for 3 minutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Alternatively , chop the ginger and coriander together in a food processor — this will produce a vibrant , bright green filling . |
| 11 | They should be able to grasp a total situation from the fragments presented to them and respond linguistically in a way that would benefit their business . |
| 12 | You pop on to The Michael Aspel Show as a guest , crack a few jokes in a borrowed gown , plug your latest book/show/film/affair , mop up more than your rightful share of Sancerre in the Hostility Room , and go home in a studio limo . |
| 13 | Certainly it was once hoped , particularly after the devastation of the last war , that modern architecture might with the aid of science and technology provide mankind with a wholly satisfying new environment — and do so in a matter of a few decades . |
| 14 | Only occupants of the deep oceans or the darkest recesses of caves will escape such rhythmic influences and live instead in a world where the passage of daily time has no obvious consequence and where tides have no effect . |
| 15 | These are similar to ceramic tiles , but are unglazed and come only in a range of earth/terracotta/red colours as they are made from unrefined clay . |
| 16 | At any rate , the males leave their parties and come together in a posse . |
| 17 | As the sun heats the ground , pockets of warm air form which periodically break away and rise upwards in a column . |
| 18 | That the people of Sheila na gigh could rise from the ashes of their homes and join together in a celebration , a unity in the face of such adversity , made him proud to be a Celt . |
| 19 | It also becomes an experience which indirectly registers the resilience of the individual 's own immediate cultural past : forgetfulness and oblivion are the means of its escape , but become so in a way which register its continuing presence . |
| 20 | Or are they explicable , perhaps , in terms of certain behavioural-dispositional , or functional , or some similar properties which can not be strictly categorised either as " physical " or " mental " , but belong rather in a class of their own ? |