Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual sail up in the " Columba. " the story is absurdly long already . " |
| 2 | In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen . |
| 3 | A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive . |
| 4 | Because it is the most complex of all food elements , protein is the hardest to break down in the body , requiring a great deal of energy . |
| 5 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 6 | Next day , Sunday , 12 March , the EXCLUSIVE screamed out in the News of the World . |
| 7 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 8 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 9 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 10 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 11 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 12 | Also give yourself a good rub down in the shower or bath with their Body Sea Scrub Bar , £3.95 . |
| 13 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 14 | It was obviously a send-up of The Face but it nevertheless reflected a certain smartening up in the band . |
| 15 | And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved . |
| 16 | It was surely great to be an American going up in the greatest company in the world and in the greatest country in the world . |