Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] in the [adj] [noun] " 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 | For those whose main interest lies only in the formalistic approach to physics , these results will have little impact , but to those who are interested in trying to understand further the implications of this non-locality there remain intriguing questions , which must be carefully examined in depth . |
| 3 | The difference lies only in the cultural pattern with which the children associates . |
| 4 | Linda , has always in the seven years I 've known her , spent fortunes on clothes and make-up as you can see . |
| 5 | The explanation for the lacklustre increase of 260% since 1975 for one of the century 's greatest artists lies also in the variable quality and variety of styles . |
| 6 | AN ADVERTISING campaign starts today in the latest phase of Strathclyde Police Force 's crackdown on knife-carrying and knife assaults . |
| 7 | The memory of the heroism and sterling qualities of Rodrigo del Bivar have thus been enshrined for all time ; his statue stands today in the main square of Burgos , staring out forever across the lands he fought so long to transform . |
| 8 | One stands proudly in the main lobby of the student union at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . |
| 9 | He also made for the grotto at Stourhead in Wiltshire the figure of a river god which , painted white to resemble marble , glows splendidly in the cavernous gloom . |
| 10 | When the full length of tape has been used , the drive stops , and starts again in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | Hoffman mugs satisfactorily in the leading role , but his voice has been dubbed by an Italian actor . |
| 12 | ‘ I know I have seen three plays already in the magnificent splendour of the Opera House . |
| 13 | It is notable that the term legatarius occurs only in the qualifying clauses , and need not therefore be attributed to Celsus in this context . |
| 14 | Yet this particular policy is intended and it says so in the explanatory memorandum , that it 's to be once established as open count open countryside would be out immediately outside the settlements . |
| 15 | Yes that 's right er I er believe in fact I know because the Duke says so in the Racing Post today the reason he 's gone there is to get Adrian Maguire because Adrian has ridden him already in Ireland and the owner wanting to stick with Maguire which you ca n't blame him for |
| 16 | Similar considerations can be applied to ‘ magnetic ’ dipole radiation which is important when the charges are in rapid motion ; it also vanishes identically in the gravitational case . |
| 17 | Aberdeen , who missed the diligent foraging of the injured Grant , strung more passes together in the second half . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They carry negligible risk , a known rate of return if held to their redemption which occurs always in the near future and there is a ready market for them . |
| 20 | Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Cade occurs frequently in the early pipe rolls of Henry II 's reign , where payments to him of around £5,600 are recorded , in settlement of various loans that he had made to the Crown . |
| 23 | This process occurs readily in the healthy gut : the products of digestion ( monosaccharides , amino acids , fatty acids , glycerol , etc. ) are absorbed as well as the ions , with water following by osmosis . |
| 24 | The word occurs twice in the present draft and I have explained in some detail why it is not acceptable on either occasion . |
| 25 | Think first about the repetitions Blake uses : ‘ charter 'd ’ occurs twice in the first stanza , and ‘ marks ’ three times . |
| 26 | Listen what the prophet says there in the third chapter , he says , this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain , the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind therefore I have hope . |
| 27 | Modern fiction deals rather in the partial illuminations of the moment . |
| 28 | He spends his money and himself too quickly , runs up massive bills , gives , gives , gives , takes , takes , takes , fast forwards himself to extremes of bliss , extremes of abjection , invests unwisely in the single love-object , the addiction or the fetish . |
| 29 | Paykel ( 1979 ) calculated that the risk of a person developing depression increases sixfold in the six months following an exit event . |
| 30 | What evidence there is often exists only in the anecdotal form of teacher accounts or in multicultural handbooks ( Burgess , 1986 ; Nixon , 1985 ) . |