Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 A corporate tie-up between privileged interests and state may be threatened by the emergence onto the political agenda of new groups and new " citizen " concerns that fall outside of the incorporation that bears on groups caught up in economic issues and the division of labour . |
| 2 | At first we thought that the foragers might simply be suffering from some sort of apian hydrophobia , but when we increased the distance of the feeding station so that the dances indicated the far side of the lake , recruits turned up in great numbers . |
| 3 | He was sprawled at an unusual angle , arms and legs stuck out in all directions . |
| 4 | The books piled up in cranky stairways . |
| 5 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 6 | fifty five it 's a laser box the dragons light up in different colours , look see there 's nothing |
| 7 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 8 | Yes , the year 's hottest dance track was created in Switzerland — land of alarm clocks , snow-capped peaks and junkies shooting up in public parks . |
| 9 | The fur on his shoulders stood up in stiff spikes . |
| 10 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |
| 11 | Since there are many possible adaptive forms , the patterns of development can be represented as a tree in which many lines branch out in different directions from the same starting point , not as a linear scale . |
| 12 | There he was , in a race on Sports ' Day , his skinny , uncoordinated limbs flung out in all directions , galloping clumsily round the track at least half a lap behind everybody else . |
| 13 | They can feel their petty lives caught up in great events . |
| 14 | Her health suffered ; vagrant aches camped out in different parts of her body but she did n't dare go to a Spiderglass doctor . |
| 15 | It seems clear from the surviving images that emperors took interest in and approved the form of their portraits , particularly those that would be seen by many of their subjects on coins and statues set up in public places . |
| 16 | While engineers scrape by in cheerless garrets . |
| 17 | The current contracts run out in 10 days and the generators are refusing to say how much they will buy in future . |
| 18 | Cuttings were made to ease the original gradients , causeways laid down in difficult places , and the roadway widened . |
| 19 | The floors of these little hellholes are awash with stinking chemical waste , through which workers slosh around in rubber boots . |
| 20 | From the Friarfold Vein complicated branch veins run off in all directions in what is called a ribbon deposit . |
| 21 | The move came amidst concern about the high levels of bad debt carried by the Nigerian banking system , particularly that held by some of the smaller banks set up in recent years . |
| 22 | When negotiations between employers and unions finally broke down strike action was taken with different groups of workers coming out in different parts of the country . |
| 23 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 24 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro , ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) . |
| 25 | For reasons set out in earlier reports and in statements ( IG 16–19 ) concerning her car , abandoned in Exeter station car-park , it is possible , even likely , that she met someone there by arrangement … |
| 26 | Some are in a state of imminent collapse and in others , side passages branch off in all directions and shafts can suddenly appear at your feet dropping down hundreds of feet into the darkness . |
| 27 | A certain amount of the Stuart expansion had been carried out by chartered companies , and the enemies of James II showed relatively little regard for the rights laid down in these charters . |
| 28 | The entire stock of the nation 's glasses turns over in two years so there is no reason why this measure should result in any implementation costs or why the price of a pint should go up . |
| 29 | They are broadly consistent with those from earlier studies carried out in other parts of the country except that children in the present study spent more time waiting for attention , in spite of the presence of an unprecedented number of support teachers and other ancillary staff and helpers . |
| 30 | This project uses information from a considerable number of fertility surveys carried out in developing countries . |