Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it varies according to style , purpose and audience : no one speaks or writes in the same way on all occasions . |
| 2 | There are , in criminal investigations , a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence . |
| 3 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 4 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 5 | For instance , there are no yellow daffodils in the underlying system of mass in motion ; daffodils appear yellow to us because of the effect of suitable wavelengths ( or corpuscules in a rival theory ) of light on human sense-organs . |
| 6 | We began this chapter by emphasising that fitness for purpose is the chief factor deciding whether an information product succeeds or fails in a given application . |
| 7 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 8 | Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove . |
| 9 | It is left with one unused electron that sits in an isolated energy level in the middle of the energy gap . |
| 10 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
| 11 | We have seen how the impersonalism of public life and changes in the structure and functions of the family have led to an emphasis on self-fulfilment as something that belongs in the private sphere . |
| 12 | The introduction of a local income tax therefore requires a major reform to income tax and one that points in the opposite direction to the recent individualisation of tax — with separate assessment for husbands and wives . |
| 13 | This logic is set out in a manner that illustrates in an exemplary way the structuralist intention to map out all the possibilities of literature as distinct from its actual manifestations . |
| 14 | Adam Sedgwick , whose life is commemorated in a fine book by Colin Speakman and in a memorial fountain of Shap granite that stands in the main street , is Dent 's most famous son . |
| 15 | From now on , in every by-election that occurs in a Tory-held seat , the same strategy should be followed . |
| 16 | To him everything that happens in the natural world is rational through and through and subject to a rigid norm . |
| 17 | A positive symptom is something that happens in the brain-damaged animal that does n't happen in the normal . |
| 18 | ( Although in Trob the last word in fact became ‘ a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa , home of the firegods or so it is said . ’ ) . |
| 19 | The Home Office agreed , attributing the upsurge to the ‘ general fear of war that exists in the lower middle and working classes , and not to any tenderness for Russia . ’ |
| 20 | The strings provide us with the most expressive and appealing medium ( with perhaps the exception of the human voice ) that exists in the whole range of music . |
| 21 | They seemed to sell everything from bolts of brightly coloured , imported cloth for making sarongs or Mother Hubbards — the island dress that hangs in a straight line from shoulder to ankle — to penknives and a large assortment of tools ranging from chisels to axes , from fishing lines and hooks to pots and pans . |
| 22 | This is a subject which affects many people in this city and is another characteristic act by a Tory Government that acts in a callous way . |
| 23 | Secondly , it is possible that costs in the longer term may be ignored . |
| 24 | Come out of the town on the coast road , then find a no-through road on the right that ends in a turning circle . |
| 25 | I am also the Great White Spirit that resides in the fifth dimension , everything is connected to my fingertips — by wires . ’ |
| 26 | It is in the life and fragrance of that person , Jesus of Nazareth , that we have a pattern of care and love for all things which can be the basis for a discipleship that takes in a holistic approach to life . |
| 27 | " Next week I shall be writing about moorland walks and suggesting an itinerary that takes in the ever-attractive Tower Foin . " |
| 28 | ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side . |
| 29 | That may still be true of the set-piece studio interview — though even there the prior indication of ‘ lines of questioning ’ is by no means unknown ( and the viewer would probably be astonished at the general closeness of the atmosphere that prevails in the green room afterwards ) . |
| 30 | It should be clear from the above diagram that the sentence which forms the most readily accessible link between ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) is ( 2c ) ( it is also the one that appears in the actual text ) . |