Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Most days they were invisible behind low cloud , but if Martha could not see them she could always feel them in the cold fury of the river and the eddying downdraughts of chill air which occasionally penetrated the valley . |
| 32 | Others looted the communion plate from the church , mockingly dressing themselves in the despised Anglican vestments , before that building , too , caught fire , bringing the walls crashing to the ground . |
| 33 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 34 | Even if we drop a shot because Jacklin makes four , it still keeps us in the Open . |
| 35 | The silence — for the sound of birds and sea adds up to silence as beautifully as we ever know it in the noisy world of today — together with the sweetly moving air , and the scents of thyme and bell heather and sun-warmed bracken , all combined to distil something very potent . |
| 36 | Japan has always prided itself in the high quality of its water supply . |
| 37 | Not until Aug. 7 did Turkey unequivocally place itself in the anti-Iraqi camp , with its decision ( coinciding with a similar decision by Saudi Arabia — see above ) to block the pipelines , to ban Iraqi and Kuwaiti trade ( except supplies of medicines and food ) and to freeze assets . |
| 38 | You can still find them in the dark gullies of the Old City — if you know where to look . |
| 39 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 40 | At Gorbachev 's side stood Marshall Dmitri Yazov , the defence minister who would later betray him in the attempted coup . |
| 41 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 42 | He also established himself in the Russian trade , which during the French wars offered exceptional opportunities for profit . |
| 43 | United deserved the win , but they nearly lost it in the closing minutes . |
| 44 | Treaty , included the right not only to take up activities as a self-employed person but also to pursue them in the broad sense of the term and that ‘ The renting of premises for business purposes furthers the pursuit of an occupation and therefore falls within the scope of article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 45 | Accommodation should therefore be available both to assist them in the personal adjustments they will have to make and to ensure that at the outset they are suitably accommodated . |
| 46 | As well as having it in the luxury class , I now also include it in the practical , hard-wearing , well worth-the-effort class ! |
| 47 | Having identified the main sectors we can now include them in the circular flow approach adopted in Figure 1.2 . |
| 48 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
| 49 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 50 | The Open School 's approach of learning more fully through experience will help enable Johannesburg 's black children move on from being the victims of apartheid to grasping and using the challenges now facing them in the changing South Africa . |
| 51 | Neither would a sovereign state 's government necessarily want to oppose transnational corporations , for the former often find themselves in the unenviable position of needing the latter more than the latter need them . |
| 52 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 53 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
| 54 | ‘ Frank has to prove himself by really beating someone in the top ten . |
| 55 | Well if it 's to do with anything you 've seen here please make it in the right quarters not at me . |
| 56 | Dignam used to joke about how his priestly teacher , a devotee of the classical drama , invariably cast him in the leading roles of Shakespeare 's heroines , Portia , Juliet , and Ophelia among them . |
| 57 | Simultaneously he increasingly involved himself in the literary life of London , a change in the balance of his career which began when he made the acquaintance of the poet , Alfred ( later first Baron ) Tennyson [ q.v. ] , who in 1867 commissioned Knowles to design his house in Aldworth , Sussex . |
| 58 | Thus it has been suggested that a key difference between invertebrate and vertebrate brains is that in the former a great deal of power and responsibility could be invested in a single cell or even synapse which in the vertebrate nervous system would be more widely distributed . |
| 59 | This is your ammunition — PLEASE fire it in the right direction ! |
| 60 | And the Northern Ireland International surprisingly finding himself in the clear twice already in the first five minutes , although that was er obviously not a chance . |