Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [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 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |
| 5 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 6 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The most recent substantial piece of work on public library stock logistics is described in Tony Houghton 's Bookstock management in public libraries ( 1985 ) , again work based upon actual research carried out in a public library system . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This fella came over in an 18–30 steward 's blazer and he said , ‘ You 're responsible for me working here ’ . |
| 13 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 14 | But referee Ed Morrison 's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge . |
| 15 | He sat looking at me , his mouth turned down in a bitter line . |
| 16 | These two distinct systems will feed upon each other through an ongoing confrontation acted out in the Middle East . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Duke was revelling in the occasion , his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy . |
| 20 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 21 | Against a background of rising tension between Aoun 's forces and those under the command of Gen. Lahud , as well as Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia , military confrontation broke out in the Christian enclave of East Beirut in late January 1990 [ see pp. 37264-65 ] . |
| 22 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 23 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 24 | The Old Trafford side lost out in a dramatic penalty shoot-out with Torpedo Moscow when Steve Bruce , Brian McClair and Gary Pallister all failed from the spot . |
| 25 | The Old Trafford side lost out in a dramatic penalty shoot-out with Torpedo Moscow when Steve Bruce , Brian McClair and Gary Pallister all failed from the spot . |
| 26 | The friendship broke off in the 1880s . |
| 27 | When the light went out in the last room , Bridget began to get up . |
| 28 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 30 | " To bed , " she said decisively , " I 'll have some tea sent up in a little while . " |