Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He warned the Conservatives and Labour that ‘ from the ancient bastion of liberalism , the flames are fanning out in all directions , consuming your shabby campaigns , your out-of-date policies , your visions of the future ’ . |
| 2 | As most drift-netting operations are carried out in international waters where little or no international agreements are in force , it is extremely difficult to control this destruction of life on the high seas , or even to get an accurate picture of its magnitude . |
| 3 | The way in which the above activities are set out in this handbook is deliberately quite detailed in order to suit those who prefer to know how to do everything step by step . |
| 4 | First , simple diffusion of chemicals could provide the signals ; secondly , if patterns are laid down in such small fields , their later development may largely be due to programmed growth . |
| 5 | The new separator relies on electrophoresis : different molecules are pulled off in different directions toward positive or negative electrodes . |
| 6 | The first Chameleon products are expected out in 1996 . |
| 7 | Waiting times are coming down in most places and staff report improved management and job satisfaction . |
| 8 | The extent to which personality characteristics are passed on in this genetic way is less certain . |
| 9 | MORE teenagers are staying on in further education in County Durham . |
| 10 | Different types of shops are laid out in different ways — you would n't expect an expensive dress shop to be laid out in the same way as a supermarket , for example . |
| 11 | In Latin America , relationships are built up in this way not just for personal support but , also , to promote commercial and political ends . |
| 12 | When at last he spoke , the words were spat out in sharp interrogation . |
| 13 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 14 | Large squares were laid out in many city centres . |
| 15 | Openings for quarrels were bubbling up in several places in the 1730s . |
| 16 | A June 1940 issue informed the world that U 235 would yield plenty of energy , yet there was no fear of whole nations being blotted out in one night . |
| 17 | Two candidates were put up in each of three boroughs , Bethnal Green , Limehouse , and Shoreditch , for the LCC elections of March 1937 . |
| 18 | All subjects were followed up in 1982 . |
| 19 | IT says a lot for the African National Congress in South Africa that , after their supporters were gunned down in cold blood at the beginning of the week , they are still prepared to talk peace . |
| 20 | Over 100 homes of Aristide supporters were burnt down in rural areas . |
| 21 | She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace . |
| 22 | The sample of schools was made up in such a way that the 50 schools , as a whole group , where representative of Scottish secondary schools . |
| 23 | Schregle 's ( 1981 ) approach to this basic problem of what is comparable in cross-national studies is to compare the methods and ways in which particular industrial relations functions are carried out in various countries , rather than simply comparing institutions and procedures carrying the same designation . |
| 24 | It was surely only people of diminished responsibility who found their lives being taken over in this way . |
| 25 | The two trials were carried out in adjacent populations in West Africa ; one looked in detail at the effect of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity and the other at its effect on mortality . |
| 26 | The strict pedagogic methods and moral precepts being worked out in 1922 by A. Makarenko at a microcosmic level near Poltava were to be taken over and applied wholesale to Stalin 's Russia in the 1930s . |
| 27 | The last time Cuban exiles were allowed back in large numbers , during a goodwill period in the late 1970s , the country nearly collapsed in shock at the wealth they brought in their luggage . |
| 28 | In fact the hade of Fleming 's Vein is nowhere regular as the miners were to find out in due course . |
| 29 | 12 Finished Wallow barrow & Hawes water so that the thirty plates were got through in 36 days or 5 weeks . |
| 30 | Surging mergers and acquisitions — £21 billion ( $33 billion ) worth of British companies were taken over in 1989 , compared with £6.3 billion five years earlier . |