Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 2 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 3 | However , this Government have frozen , deliberately , purchase grants even in the past three years when the Minister has had funds at his disposal . |
| 4 | If the disk is preserved A. abyssorum differs further in the naked ventral interradial area and in the coarser scaling of the disk . |
| 5 | Coleraine started brightly with Cook and Brian Donaghy both going close in the opening three minutes , but the Crues settled quickly and were presented with a golden opportunity to go ahead in the 12th minute . |
| 6 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 7 | AGAIN related to a case reported only in the Daily Mail . |
| 8 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 11 | In the first direct contact between the MPLA government and the rebel UNITA movement since the summit at Gbadolite ( Zaïre ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] , high ranking delegations from each side met secretly in the Portuguese town of Evora on April 24-25 . |
| 12 | This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development . |
| 13 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 14 | Actual practice changed fast in the 1980s as central government 's desire to cut public spending overwhelmed all other considerations . |
| 15 | The fabric crumbled instantly in the hot dry air , leaving only a dangling mesh where some threads had been plaited with fine gold wire . |
| 16 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 17 | According to the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , less than 1 per cent of research carried out in the developed countries has any significance for the developing world , and half that research effort is devoted to military and related activities . |
| 18 | In subsequent initiatives US Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger , Cyrus Vance , and George Schultz all upheld the centrality of 242 in ‘ the peace process ’ , a term used particularly in the Middle East conflict . |
| 19 | Verb-phrase anaphora occurs when a verb-phrase depends for its interpretation on another verb-phrase occurring earlier in the spoken or written discourse . |
| 20 | It is only in the third- and fourth-session documents that this is to be found , and increasingly frequently , as , for instance , in chapter 13 of Lumen Gentium or in chapter 3 of the Decree on Missionary Activity , entitled ‘ Particular Churches ’ — a chapter written largely in the fourth session and one of the Council 's most mature texts . |
| 21 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 22 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 23 | He sat with his eyes fixed on great breakers rolling on a coral atoll somewhere in the immense Pacific . |
| 24 | These two distinct systems will feed upon each other through an ongoing confrontation acted out in the Middle East . |
| 25 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
| 26 | Laura said " used " because letters were no longer brought by the postman ; after he had fallen twice from Maurice 's ill-secured gangplank , the whole morning 's mail soaked away in the great river 's load of rubbish , the GPO , with every reason on its side , had notified the Reach that they could no longer undertake deliveries . |
| 27 | The right key turned sweetly in the heavy lock , and Cadfael opened the door . |
| 28 | Despite his background , Henry switched codes and his talent shone through in the white SACU , which was fighting right wing politicians in a move towards multi-racial cricket . |
| 29 | No raincoated figure skulks furtively in the shadowy corners of the Groucho club , hissing ‘ Martin Amis is in . |
| 30 | The gruesome story of the headless lover began early in the 1900s when Brooke End signal box controlled the up and down main lines , an up goods loop and sidings used by the pick-up trains of that period . |