Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |
| 2 | LDOCE is slightly superior to the CED and OALD in this respect , most probably due to its use of a core vocabulary . |
| 3 | The Korean right was weak , despondent and lacking in effective leadership . |
| 4 | If protected in some way , either by vegetation or by falling into holes in the ground , small mammal bones quickly become buried and protected in this way from weathering . |
| 5 | They have not been touched-up or doctored in any way whatever . |
| 6 | It was rebuilt after a fire in the thirteenth century , altered and restored in contemporary style in the seventeenth , but returned to its former state in the 1920s . |
| 7 | Most of the letters are straightforward and written in plain English ; the type that you may spend bags of time perfecting — Have I said exactly the right thing ? |
| 8 | They argued against what they termed Hall 's ‘ ideologism ’ , suggesting that it is too elastic , descriptive and lacking in explanatory content . |
| 9 | A blaze of glory , a fury of passion that left them weak and trembling in each other 's arms . |
| 10 | But the sport is still very much alive and kicking in this country . |
| 11 | The extent to which true devolution of powers to Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland is necessary or desirable is controversial and differs in each case . |
| 12 | Um interestingly enough , when you think about the way in which memory is conceptualised and understood in cognitive psychology , um memory increasingly these days seems to be being understood as a sort of active constructive process anyway . |
| 13 | And , though those dreams had taken something of a battering since the heady days of Taunton , they were resilient and survived in amended form . |
| 14 | I felt that as a Minister of the Eucharist I am privileged to accompany Our Lord to my fellow pilgrims , particularly those who are sick or bereaved in one way or another . |
| 15 | When terms such as ‘ Libraries , Children 's ’ are found alongside ‘ Business libraries ’ , it is far from obvious whether terms are being inverted or put in direct order . |
| 16 | There is no shot in them , they are undamaged and remain in first-rate condition . |
| 17 | AH ! how the other half live , but if he works hard and pulls in some loot , all to the good . |
| 18 | They were tortured , humiliated and abused in gross contravention of the Geneva convention . |
| 19 | The universities looked run-down and neglected in sharp contrast to new luxury hotels being built with foreign loans and technology in the large cities . |
| 20 | My mental eye , rendered more acute by repeated visions of this kind , could now distinguish larger structures , of manifold conformation ; long rows , sometimes more closely fitted together ; all twining and twisting in snakelike motion . |
| 21 | The reaction was stopped ( 70°C , 10 min ) , the enzyme removed by phenol/chloroform extraction , the DNA precipitated , dried and resuspended in sterilized water . |
| 22 | ( ceased to be a member of the Institute on 14 July 1992 for failing to pay the Disciplinary Committee fine and costs in due time under the terms of Bye-law 41 . ) |
| 23 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as is comfortable and hold in this position . |
| 24 | Then Satan scented water off to the left and swung in that direction . |
| 25 | It was about eight inches square and framed in black teak . |
| 26 | Since then , not only has the number of records increased fourfold but advances in human learning have also led to amendments . |
| 27 | It is in no sense a rival body to the National Institute for the Deaf but works in active co-operation with it and has direct representation there on . |
| 28 | These results , however , are somewhat misleading because in most cases the wells do not appear to have been drilled for Zechstein objectives and were either off-structure or lacking in significant closure at Zechstein level . |
| 29 | There is indeed plenty in print about them , but it is economic , argumentative stuff , mostly condemnatory and lacking in any understanding of what this old world meant to the peasant , and of what he lost by its passing . |
| 30 | These evils in the Webbs ' view ‘ completely undermined the old principles of government inherited from time immemorial and embodied in local custom , the Common Law and the Tudor and Stuart legislation ’ ( Webb and Webb 1963:91 ) . |