Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 2 | She would have got soaked had they stayed any longer , and Ven was quite right to see it was not sensible to amble around in the pouring rain . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's funny to sit here in the warm sunshine , and think of all that going on here over the centuries . ’ |
| 4 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 5 | But it would be wrong to stress either in the middle ages or in the sixteenth century — the significance of parliamentary opposition . |
| 6 | Major Match was favourite to follow up in the latest running of the Kempton contest , but had a rough time , getting knocked around before trailing in last behind Far Senior . |
| 7 | It struck Nutty that he had no time to take cars for joy-rides any longer , content to flake out in the thick straw in a corner of Firelight 's box after evenings of running and riding and swimming . |
| 8 | Council houses were sold and buses ‘ deregulated ’ ( although the housing association sector seems set to expand dramatically in the 1990s ) , but the bulk of existing public housing remained in council hands , and public transport has always been run on a semi-market basis , with the charging of fares coupled with separately identified public subsidy . |
| 9 | Software of this quality is hard to find even in the commercial market so Talking Teacher is sure to prove a popular choice with parents of younger children . |
| 10 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 11 | Maid Of Money , 12-1 , will also go for the Gold Cup but they are likely to meet again in the Black and White Gold Cup at Leopardstown . |
| 12 | Mr Taylor and Rick Parry , the Premier League chief executive , who spent much of the weekend trying to thrash out an agreement on the telephone , are likely to meet again in the next 48 hours . |
| 13 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Moreover , the UK and the USA have not ratified the protocol , mainly because of objections on other matters , and they are not likely to do so in the near future . |
| 16 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 17 | LONDON Tube and bus fares are likely to rise sharply in the coming years as London Regional Transport seeks to price passengers off overcrowded public transport . |
| 18 | For example , if the glider is too low to land conventionally in the normal landing area directly into the wind , it may well be possible to land across wind and behind the normal launching point , so that the low turn can be completed safely . |
| 19 | If she could only gain her room unnoticed , she would be able to sit quietly in the rocking chair with a book and — |
| 20 | It has been previously shown that linear plasmids bearing Tetrahymena telomeric sequences are able to replicate autonomously in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina ( 1 ) . |
| 21 | With demands for devolution resurfacing , this problem is unlikely to go away in the foreseeable future . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 23 | We therefore dispute van Maanen 's view that researchers on the police have to be male ( 1981 : 480 ) , in order to be able to participate fully in the masculine occupational and leisure culture of the police . |
| 24 | Thus the USSR would be able to fish profitably in the troubled waters of economic chaos . |
| 25 | Rates of gastric emptying vary enormously in the same individual depending on the nature of the test meal studied . |
| 26 | Since Marvell did not find ‘ Fair Quiet … and Innocence ’ in ‘ busy companies of men ’ he entered into his garden and discovered them there , also as ‘ sacred plants ’ unable to grow outside in the barren landscape of reality . |
| 27 | If a first championship since 1971 looks out of reach , they should be able to challenge strongly in the one-day competitions . |
| 28 | They are able to do a lot of things that former generations could not do ; for instance a lot of them are able to study now in the legal field , become nurses and so on . |
| 29 | As a result , at the back of people 's minds there is frequently the notion nowadays that since ‘ we ’ are now net importers of manufactured goods , ‘ we ’ are not able to compete successfully in the international market for manufactured goods , so the country must be impoverished and only able to avoid facing up to this through luck or a trick . |
| 30 | ‘ In our dealings with North West companies we find that many have shown increases in productivity and earnings , even during the recession , proving that they have been able to compete effectively in the international arena , ’ she said , adding that there was nevertheless no room for complacency . |