Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 2 | He watched attentively , noting every frown , every look of puzzlement , every last betraying blink or twitch in the old man 's face , anxious to gauge the depth of his feelings . |
| 3 | In the near future the Guild is planning to open a new Museum of Knitting & Crochet in the historic village of Saltaire near Bradford . |
| 4 | Any free play or slop in the fore/aft cyclic linkages will aggravate this situation . |
| 5 | In particular the meaning of a term or link in the semantic net was often unclear to them . |
| 6 | Among other forms of religion that flourished in the Roman empire was Mithraism . |
| 7 | " Next week I shall be writing about moorland walks and suggesting an itinerary that takes in the ever-attractive Tower Foin . " |
| 8 | The Scotch of St James , off Piccadilly , was the club that pulled in the new pop generation . |
| 9 | I was fascinated by a large , framed print on the wall , depicting a tragedy that occurred in the Mediterranean around the turn of the century . |
| 10 | The ridge is quickly gained and on this peach of a day was absolutely magnificent , with the hills retaining sizeable patches of spring snow that sparkled in the hazy sunshine . |
| 11 | FALLING interest rates could signal the end of the great rental boom that flourished in the unstable property market of the past few years . |
| 12 | It is the speaker 's intention and the addressee 's successful location of the intended referent that matter in the first usage , not the exact aptness of the description , so that we could call this usage speaker reference ( as opposed to semantic reference ; Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | They estimated y ( the extra term that appears in the no-arbitrage condition of a geometric index discussed in Section 5.2.9 ) , using the returns for the most recent 20 days , and found the resulting estimate was reasonably stable over time at an annual rate of 5.77% . |
| 14 | He commented on the results : Even God came out of the thing with a more credible characterization than offered in the original … |
| 15 | It became clear that most investment and credits in the urban sector had been used to finance further mechanisation and capitalisation , creating limits to labour absorption of industrial sectors . |
| 16 | Sqd Ldr Jimmy Malley had a distinguished career with bomber command and flew in the legendary Wellington F for Freddie , featured in the film Target For Tonight . |
| 17 | With Romy he 'd had a real romance but it had flourished only on the Continent and withered in the cold climate of England . |
| 18 | On the other side were many who voiced optimism and trust in the Holy Spirit rather than defensiveness , saw more need for encouragement than for condemnations , and were convinced that there was a new opportunity for liturgical and pastoral use of the Bible which must not be missed . |
| 19 | Therefore , a very important part of the treatment programme must be helping the client to face up to their fear and stay in the difficult situation learning that they can control their anxiety . |
| 20 | Melt the butter in a large saucepan and throw in the chopped onion and the whole unpeeled garlic clove . |
| 21 | Learning Classics or memorizing the year by year achievements of a football club will enhance the individual 's reputation in certain environments , but will prove a poor investment if used in the wrong circumstances . |
| 22 | The first trick is to get left of the chockstone and stop in the Jacuzzi Pool , next , to pivot and line up for the exit slot which is only 2½ ft–3ft wide in a foaming pool whose diameter is only 18 ins more than a boat 's length . |
| 23 | It offers an interconnected system of over 10,000 screens providing information on study and work in the 12 European Community member states , all controlled by a simple point-and-click system . |
| 24 | Information on possible risk factors for leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma reported at interview and recorded in the obstetric notes are summarised in table VII . |
| 25 | They did however eventually see World War Two service , initially with the 412th Fighter Group and its 29th , 31st and 445th Fighter Squadrons , all units being assigned to the 4th Air Force and stationed in the western United States . |
| 26 | There are several restaurants and snack bars in the park to choose from , or you could take a picnic and relax in the beautiful gardens . |
| 27 | No doubt there is too much red tape and lawyering in the nuclear business — as in so much of American life . |
| 28 | One of these tenements , the property of the lord of the manor and situated in the little town , deserves particular attention . |
| 29 | In the early eighteenth century the Piggot family decided to modernize their humble and rambling seventeenth-century manor and called in the best local builder , perhaps from Stanford in the Vale , a rather grand village displaying much architectural refinement . |
| 30 | The rings had spilled out of the tin and lay in the tufty bits of grass like slugs trying to eat their own tails . |