Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 If the description fits someone else in the office , take action .
2 The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector .
3 The administrator 's greeting made everyone else in the room turn round to look .
4 It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us .
5 The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose .
6 The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose .
7 1.8 The three profile components we recommend are as follows : • speaking and listening — with one attainment target : the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose .
8 speaking and listening — with one attainment target ; the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose ;
9 The structure of intelligence reveals itself spontaneously in the way people behave intellectually ; it is not imposed by the assumptions of testers , as the national press would have it .
10 In that second , while Jinny was babbling on about Joe , the boy looked her straight in the eyes and spoke soundlessly , his lips shaping a single word .
11 It was , in fact , a much beamier vessel than the police ship , the hull fining up sharply towards bow and stern so that both fore and aft her deep , strong wedge-shape would cause the ice to squeeze her upwards in the event of her being caught in a series of pressure ridges .
12 I remember standing at the kitchen window watching them outside in the snow .
13 Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face .
14 He waited until the surface of the water in the bath became quite still , like a pool , like a swimming pool before the very first swimmer enters it early in the morning , and then with one quick move climbed in and lay right under the water with his eyes closed .
15 For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning .
16 The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century .
17 He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well .
18 But no doubt we can return to these matters if the honourable gentleman raises them further in the course of the debate .
19 When he first struck up a friendship with Joanna , he could never have suspected it would one day put him firmly in the frame in a potential murder investigation .
20 The article ended : ‘ The prince 's image has been badly damaged and statesman-like behaviour can not compensate for a young wife throwing herself downstairs in an attempted suicide while her husband strides to go out riding .
21 The larger Diocesan pilgrimage joins us later in the week .
22 But in general the architecture of the area divides itself clearly in the period 1200–1600 into two main types .
23 For example , will an increase in aggregate demand manifest itself principally in the form of an increase in output , as the naive model suggests , or in the form of an increase in prices , as the equally naive quantity theory of money suggests ?
24 In the same year , the tsar involved himself personally in the foundation of the reformist journal Military Miscellany .
25 Summoning her courage , Folly looked him squarely in the face .
26 MAGISTRATES asked a man to defend himself yesterday in a bid to save his job .
27 Both writers make light of this crossing from Fort Augustus to the middle of Glenmoriston , even though it must have proven their most arduous stage so far — eleven miles of high , hard going , ‘ cut in traverses ’ as Johnson says , ‘ so that as we went upon a higher stage , we saw the baggage following us below in a contrary direction . ’
28 But Leonskaja 's big technique serves her well in the Scherzo and finale , which come over with more spontaneity , and , in the finale , there is a pleasing warmth in the lyrical second melody at 1′20″ .
29 Kellard looks me briefly in the eye .
30 Polyester : Polyester fibres , usually coated with synthetic resin to bond them together in a flat sheet .
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