Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of these variations in children 's use of classroom time lies less in the precise quantifications than the questions they provoke . |
| 2 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |
| 3 | The second and more general reason lies not in the particular ways in which human beings may have evolved , but simply in the fact that they have evolved , and by natural selection . |
| 4 | Linda , has always in the seven years I 've known her , spent fortunes on clothes and make-up as you can see . |
| 5 | It is notable that the term legatarius occurs only in the qualifying clauses , and need not therefore be attributed to Celsus in this context . |
| 6 | De Beauvoir 's adopted daughter Sylvie le Bon also features largely in the latter chapters , and their friendship is portrayed as mutually supportive and stimulating — notably different from de Beauvoir 's previous relationships with women . |
| 7 | Laminated sediment occurs intermittently in the above sites from 15 to 4.4 million years ago ( Myr BP ) but is concentrated at about 15 , 13–12 , 10.5–9.5 , 6.3–6.1 , and 4.4Myr with a more geographically restricted interval at 5.8–5.1Myr . |
| 8 | Modern fiction deals rather in the partial illuminations of the moment . |
| 9 | Paykel ( 1979 ) calculated that the risk of a person developing depression increases sixfold in the six months following an exit event . |
| 10 | ‘ They say that Birkinlig , the Father of Sorcerers , dwells still in the high mountains , perhaps with the Dwarves . ’ |
| 11 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 12 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 13 | No raincoated figure skulks furtively in the shadowy corners of the Groucho club , hissing ‘ Martin Amis is in . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Dwight Yoakam twangs his way to Hammersmith Odeon IN CONCERT before Robert Palmer chills out in the sardonic surroundings of LATER WITH JOOLS HOLLAND . |
| 15 | A slight divergence appears here in the separate chronologies ; Boswell gives the impression they danced after supper ; Johnson says , ‘ When it was time to sup , the dance ceased , and thirty persons sat down to two tables in the same room . |
| 16 | Hailed as the next Sophia Loren , the dark-eyed Italian is set to take the fashion world by storm as she steps out in the latest clothes by rainwear company Four Seasons . |
| 17 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
| 18 | It should be noted that the real-balance effect operates even in the degenerate cases depicted in Figures 4.12(a) and 4.12(b) : even if the IS curve is vertical and the LM curve is horizontal , the real-balance effect will nevertheless raise demand and hence output and employment . |
| 19 | Conversation flows freely in the Georgian bars . |
| 20 | There has to be a force which operates truly in the best interests of the child , and there has to be recognition and understanding of the very difficult and narrow lines many social workers have to tread in dealing with the most harrowing cases . |
| 21 | He 's a doctor , a Chinese guy , works out in the New Territories , saves lives on a daily basis and gets paid very little for his considerable sacrifices and hard work . |
| 22 | This book is a study of how change comes about in the industrial relations of public enterprises . |