Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 .
2 Bob Geldof 's initiative resulted in the biggest ever sum of money being wrung out of the haves on behalf of the have-nots ; in itself and in isolation an admirable achievement .
3 Tory leaders thundering against the takeover of Liverpool city council by the militant Left in the 1980s scarcely mentioned that it happened despite a majority of the city 's electorate voting against Labour .
4 It seems that when a change is in progress , polysyllabic environments will be amongst the last to be affected : thus , the vowel observed in the polysyllable today may be the vowel that was formerly found in other environments .
5 The correlation between plant size and employment falls in the 1980s probably explains these trends .
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