Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 2 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |
| 3 | There has developed in the past decade or two a mass audience for previously specialized cultural forms . |
| 4 | Already another member of the nursing staff has enrolled in the 1993/94 course . |
| 5 | He also has the awkward problem of a narrow marginal seat in Bath which desperately needs nursing in the ordinary course of events , let alone during an election . |
| 6 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 7 | There half an inch of rain has fallen in the same period . |
| 8 | Yet it can happen that the momentum of the previous plan ( or previous chief executive ) is still pulling in one direction whilst the new plan ( or chief executive ) wants to go in the other direction . |
| 9 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 10 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 11 | " In view of the unpopularity the nuclear industry has earned in the developed world , it is now looking for markets in the developing world , " Greenpeace said . |
| 12 | The case studies presented in Chapters 5 and 6 illustrate some of the forms which study skills have taken and the place which their development has occupied in the evolving project . |
| 13 | There are several other systems , regionally important , ethnically , culturally and/or theologically based but none has , as yet , had the pervasive success that capitalism has enjoyed in the twentieth century . |
| 14 | Anyone who has paddled in the shallow waters of the Arahura river will understand how such a concept arose . |
| 15 | He has exhibited in the Pastel Society at the Mall Galleries as well as in many London and provincial galleries . |
| 16 | A , whose career abroad ends when he attains a certain age , decides to retire to the United Kingdom , and before his return from abroad transfers his United Kingdom assets to a company he has incorporated in the Irish Republic with a view to future tax avoidance . |
| 17 | Since then the proposal has featured in the Liberal Democrats ' health policy document Restoring the Nation 's Health . |
| 18 | Perth College of Further Education has featured in the educational press already with its National Certificate Rock Music Programme — now the first intake of the college 's HNC Rock Music ( Performer ) is nearing the end of the course . |
| 19 | As demand for the drug has grown in the developed North , cocaine production has skyrocketed — up 600 per cent since 1980 . |
| 20 | This is a movement which has grown in the only way that alliances can , from the bottom up ; it is not merely a discussion group , but a real movement engaged in real debate . |
| 21 | He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy . |
| 22 | Recently , a leading member of the West Midlands Area Young Conservatives has written in the national press : ‘ ln the course of the last twelve months 1 have travelled extensively throughout the area in question and , with the exception of extremely isolated individuals , have found no evidence of sympathy for the ‘ libertarian ’ position ’ ( The Observer , May 1985 ) . |
| 23 | She has written in the same magazine ( June 1987 ) on the Book of Exodus , warning that a reading of the Bible as literature , rather than as sacred text , ‘ can not lift heavenward ’ . |
| 24 | Drawing on a database covering nine million workers , the study finds that the number of pay freezes has risen in the past year from one in 35 settlements to more than one in 20 . |
| 25 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 26 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
| 27 | Letts , of course , has moved in the other direction , into book publishing ( Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop has seen a 500% increase in turnover of sales of their books this year , John Harvey-Jones please note ) , but it is well worth stocking Letts ' unbeatable range of the more traditional diaries for which it is so rightly famous . |
| 28 | Mick Mills , replaced at Stoke by Alan Ball , has moved in the opposite direction , succeeding the caretaker manager by becoming Colchester coach . |
| 29 | Mick Mills , replaced at Stoke by Alan Ball , has moved in the opposite direction , succeeding the caretaker manager by becoming Colchester coach . |
| 30 | Above are Steve Restarick ( left ) and Wayne Hannigan , both ex-Wivenhoe who should be in action for Chelmsford while Christian McClean ( below , left ) has moved in the opposite direction . |