Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 2 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |
| 3 | This all adds up to huge difficulties in providing for the population . |
| 4 | In human terms the loss adds up to 800 jobs in Digital and 2,000 more depending directly on orders , supplies and service . |
| 5 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 6 | This enhancement leads on to new stages in cognitive complexity : |
| 7 | The next stage of the work , says Dainty , is to eliminate a layer phenomenon called ionic motion , which shows up as slight hysteresis in the capacitance/voltage plot of the layer . |
| 8 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 9 | The plants reproduced by means of spores , which were born in cones ; the spores were often of two kinds — large ( female ) megaspores up to 2 mm in diameter and much smaller ( male ) microspores . |
| 10 | His place will be taken by our Vice Chairman , Peter Coupe , GE Capital , and Basil Billinger , Touche Ross , takes over as Vice chairman in addition to PRO . |
| 11 | He had enormous fluency and ease , often in High Church devotional poems in which the physical urgency of a boy in his teens spills over into sexual imagery in describing his love of Christ . |
| 12 | Carson opens up on Gipsy Fiddler in the high speed five furlong dash and Gispy Fiddler 's trainer Jonjo O'Neill is looking for his first win of the season . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State will be aware of the uncertainty surrounding the future of the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station , which employs up to 200 people in my constituency . |
| 14 | At this point the short version abandons the formal prayer frames and opens out into uninterrupted prose in which meditation on the enormity of what is happening to him " schop the sonne & al is , of al gode in " [ schop : created ; : anything ] ( p.85 ) carries the narrative to the point where Christ leaves Jerusalem ; then the meditation on the sorrow of Mary modulates into the account of the death of Christ , the major stages of which are marked by cries of remembrance but unpunctuated by any suggestions for Latin prayer . |
| 15 | Unless it was somebody we have already used , and that really boils down to one person in York , and she 's shown no signs of applying , so . |
| 16 | Capable of a 109mph top speed , acceleration from standstill to 62mph in 13 secs and seating four adults , Volvo 's Environmental Concept Car stacks up like few others in claiming a place on the roads of tomorrow . |
| 17 | Example ( 3 ) falls down in this respect in that it includes two different activities and outcomes : ‘ to draw up a plan ’ , and ‘ to execute it ’ . |
| 18 | This large pathology institute regularly sends out to all doctors in Denmark special packs containing a transport medium into which samples from patients suspected of having gonorrhoea can be inoculated . |
| 19 | And that sets out for each district in the County a few areas of different environmental constraints . |
| 20 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |
| 21 | It flips out with six discs in it . |
| 22 | Most of the reactions one learns about in elementary courses in chemistry , and also most of the reactions shown in a chart of metabolism , require the forming and breaking of ‘ covalent ’ bonds . |
| 23 | If people are kept awake for long periods of time , their drowsiness lessens in the morning and comes on with increased severity in the evening . |
| 24 | Besides China in second place , India comes in at fifth place in the league , and Mexico and Brazil are also both bigger than Canada , currently the G7 's seventh man . |
| 25 | The legacy of Descartes comes in for further scrutiny in Joanna Hodge 's paper , which examines the concept of ‘ the subject ’ which philosophy has inherited from Descartes . |
| 26 | Mutronics ( Medusa ) Mutant pulp directed by FX man Screaming Mad James which crossbreeds kung fu , SF and body horror , and comes up with high-kicking men in monster suits . |
| 27 | It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ? |
| 28 | The disloyal mutterings about his leadership will grow , as will the possibility of a token candidate standing against him when his party position comes up for formal renewal in November . |
| 29 | So the same topic comes up in different forms in different soap operas . |
| 30 | Carl Jacobson faces up to 10 years in prison for relaying bribery money to the US navy official responsible for awarding lucrative contracts to WedTech , a New York contractor , and United Chemcon , a Lancaster , Pennsylvania company associated with Mr Guerin 's International Signal and Control Corp . |