Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [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 | Those who fail or do poorly in an examination , or some other competitive test , find consolation in the wiles of witchcraft . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | report and summarise effectively in a range of contexts ; |
| 6 | Put cleaners and bleach together in a cupboard with a child safety catch . |
| 7 | ‘ It must be awful being old and put away in a home because no one will have you at home and look after you . ’ |
| 8 | The answer you gave to the question may have been brilliant and put together in a language marked by brevity and clarity . |
| 9 | 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 … . |
| 10 | Boil the sugar and syrup together in a saucepan for 3 minutes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Alternatively , chop the ginger and coriander together in a food processor — this will produce a vibrant , bright green filling . |
| 13 | you know try and get Sometimes in an examination they 'll give you funny numbers like two point five but they tend to work 'em out for you . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Secondly , it seems that the courts construe business sale covenants more liberally than restraints of trade in employment contracts and do so in an effort to make business sale covenants more easily enforceable : Ronbar Enterprises Ltd v Green [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 815 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At any rate , the males leave their parties and come together in a posse . |
| 21 | As the sun heats the ground , pockets of warm air form which periodically break away and rise upwards in a column . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | When someone asks a government for bloodwealth , they not only threaten bloodshed if it is not forthcoming , but do so in an idiom which denies the government 's claim to superiority , puts it on an equal footing , treats it as just another tribe . |