Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 2 | THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February . |
| 3 | Joint finance has been provided since 1976 to enable local authorities and health authorities , as well as voluntary organizations , to work together to provide facilities for care in the community for different groups , including both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 4 | Splitting frequencies — transmitting different programmes on FM and AM — could effectively double listening hours and provides two highly targeted audiences for advertising in a catchment area . |
| 5 | It provided a much needed patch of light in an otherwise sombre room lit only by two silk-shaded sidelamps . |
| 6 | ‘ All dressed ready for your important engagement , I see , ’ he drawled , his eyes going once more over her bedroom attire , and , if that was n't enough to ignite sparks of fury in her , his mocking tone abruptly fell away as his glance went from her and to the hall — in which direction she knew he was aware there was at least one bedroom . |
| 7 | In due course the council , Mr. Bookbinder and Mr. Oyston all brought actions for defamation in respect of those articles . |
| 8 | If historians only uncover images of disability in charity advertising and stories of helplessness or courage , with no alternatives , what will that mean for a future population of disabled people ? |
| 9 | His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance . |
| 10 | In short , wage inflation operates not only to divert resources from investment in the country 's manufacturing capacity but also to make borrowing and exporting more and more difficult . |
| 11 | There was a nicely judged degree of contempt in her voice , Loretta thought ; it implied that the speaker had quickly got Puddephat 's measure , and did n't intend to waste any more of her time on him . |
| 12 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 13 | Orton was the longest serving prisoner of conscience in Africa . |
| 14 | ‘ I feel sure that this will lead to many of the girls following courses in Technology next year and hopefully , eventually seeking jobs in technology in industry ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 're departing from the idea that microcomputers will be a fantastic source of telecommunications traffic in the future , ’ said Jean-Jacques Damlamian , France Telecom 's sales director , citing a study by DG Conseil that shows France 's 420,000 networked personal computers already generating $160m per year in revenues for all types of telecommunications traffic . |
| 16 | In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties . |
| 17 | ‘ Sellafield has made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated stretch of water in the world . |
| 18 | This announcement comes only months after retirement from Midland Embalming Services and I have already heard stories of breakfast in bed and other luxuries associated with retirement ! |
| 19 | DP supporters nevertheless made accusations of ballot-rigging in the March 31 polling . |
| 20 | Yes , well you just put volume of water in that one . |
| 21 | Lully had already essayed recitative in French in a ballet , Les aisons ( 1661 ) : and the comédies-ballets gave him plenty of opportunities to experiment further . |
| 22 | To consider the hypothesized eastward moving segments of lithosphere in Mongolia and China as involving ‘ micro-plates ’ is to employ the term ‘ plate ’ in quite a different sense from its original definition . |
| 23 | The form of mental handicap known as ‘ Down 's Syndrome ’ is undoubtedly the best known type of handicap in Britain today . |
| 24 | The best known aspect of sexism in English is what some feminists have called ‘ he/man ’ language , that is , the generic use of masculine pronouns and the term man ( kind ) . |
| 25 | If these are digitized and buffer zones constructed around them ( Fig. 10.3 ) we can quite easily test hypotheses about prevalence in such buffer zones as compared with prevalence outside . |
| 26 | Panel beater Gordon Reid ( 32 ) , had just set fire to rubbish in the old oil drum while clearing up at his car body repair garage at Fenton Barns . |
| 27 | I should have thought that , in the new found spirit of glasnost in the Tory Government , with public officials being required to give direct answers , the Prime Minister would hasten to give me a reply . |
| 28 | and all of a sudden I developed she 'd be on the phone going , I 've just eaten mussels with vinegar in them . |
| 29 | Benjamin Britten overshadowed the whole of Britain 's post-war operatic scene , from the revelatory first performance of Peter Grimes at Sadler 's Wells in June 1945 , to the desperately achieved premiere of Death in Venice , three years before his own death in 1976 . |
| 30 | ‘ We were just discussing attitudes towards death in our respective cultures . ’ |