Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lines of humour fanned out from his mouth , and his teeth gleamed whitely in the darkness . |
| 2 | The Acts of Parliament , although applying to Scotland , use the English spelling , as do the various forms laid down in the Acts in connection with the representation at Westminster . |
| 3 | For example ‘ the ’ is signalled by two fingers placed together in the shape of a T , touching the ear indicates ‘ sounds like ’ , patting your hand on your head means ‘ name ’ , and it is often helpful to indicate the number of words by fingers . |
| 4 | Finally , there is the suggestion that organic molecules arose elsewhere in the Universe , perhaps on dust particles in space , and were first carried to Earth on meteorites . |
| 5 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 6 | Claims brought in respect of loss of cargo will be governed by the rules laid down in the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 , the Hague-Visby Rules . |
| 7 | Many of the children with whom we work at school would not be accepted at the Petö Institute for reasons explained elsewhere in the report . |
| 8 | As part of the five-hundredth anniversary celebrations of the consecration of the Frari church in Venice , the Sovrintendenza ( the state administration of ancient monuments and works of art ) has been taking stock of the restoration projects carried out in the Basilica over the last twenty years . |
| 9 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 10 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 11 | Not only touch , but all activities carried out in the vicinity of the patient , offer the nurse an opportunity to show empathy . |
| 12 | Some systemically-desirable information , although part of the wider system , was not relevant to the actual activities carried out in the EPH . |
| 13 | The value of winter green manures lies partly in the covering they provide to the soil during the wet months of the year . |
| 14 | Later ( most accounts say early in the morning ) the students returned and compelled Sukarno and his family , and also Hatta , to come away with them ; their destination was the Peta barracks at Rengasdenglok , about 70 miles away . |
| 15 | A statistically significant difference between the two methods was found in the total number of cells per crypt column , the crypts appearing longer in the PCNA assay ( Table I ) . |
| 16 | The value of projects lies less in the subject matter than in the fact that topics are chosen and worked on by the pupils themselves . |
| 17 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | One in nine of the operations carried out in the region now are done privately , and that 's actually one in three in some parts of . |
| 19 | In places the wind whistled through the loose stones , insects became more adventurous and the gas lamps flickered quietly in the emptiness . |
| 20 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 21 | He shook hands and chatted briefly with some of the several dozen supporters gathered outside in the cold , but refused to comment on the national picture . |
| 22 | There were also some strange red rods sticking up in the air from a holder . |
| 23 | These latter losses were limited by additional reinsurance covers effected earlier in the year which provided protection for losses above $10m . |
| 24 | Additional reinsurance covers effected earlier in the year provide protection above $10m , excluding the reinstatement premium . |
| 25 | Depending on the evolution of management during the early 1990s , the confusions building up in the Training Authority 's role may need to be unravelled : either it is strengthened as an effective arm of central policy , or it is abolished so that the market — created by itself — can have freer play . |
| 26 | He stared up at the grey shapes bobbing out in the lagoon . |
| 27 | And they indicate there that there are excellent opportunities opening up in the United Kingdom bottled water market across the full range of available products commonly consumed and specifically identified friendly product ranges . |
| 28 | If they do not seem to be doing too well , or if you have seen all you want to see , let the collected animals free again in the pond or other place from which you first took them . |
| 29 | This is not a problem reserved for eventers or endurance horses , this can and does frequently occur in unfit animals used excessively in the summer . |
| 30 | There are plenty of great walks to try out in the forest itself and some of the surrounding peaks — the forest boundaries include some of the lower Cairngorm summits . |