Example sentences of "[adj] in the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 2 | The more compressed style is of course more likely in the carefully constructed world of literary expression , but it lacks the dynamic punch of the conversational sequence . |
| 3 | Some plants and animals are becoming scarce in the intensely farmed parts of East Lothian but here is a chance to ensure that you will see them . |
| 4 | Choyjamtsyn Badamhaamb was appointed Minister of Labour in the newly created ministry in August [ see p. 37656 ] . |
| 5 | His taste is evident in the nicely worn country house furniture and accessories . |
| 6 | This is manifestly evident in the often quoted passage from a ‘ Scout 's duty as a Citizen ’ which warned : |
| 7 | Somehow the visual jarring of primary coloured wet weather gear is less offensive in the brightly painted Main Street of Tobermory , especially in the rain . |
| 8 | Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century . |
| 9 | Away to the west was the enormous glitter of the sea , where the small islands floated , weightless in the gently moving water . |
| 10 | Birds had built their nests and raised their young in the once ordered kitchens . |
| 11 | Only 6.3 of the potential interventions are truly prenatal interventions and therefore preventive in the commonly understood meaning of the word . |