Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 2 | Flotation has become properly developed only in the past 30 years : it was certainly not available to the ‘ old men ’ who ran the mines last century . |
| 3 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 4 | It leaves me like a right fool out in the bloody open . ’ |
| 5 | Among other research it led to a series of studies — mostly carried out in the 1950s and 1960s — of the personalities of very creative people . |
| 6 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 7 | North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary has revealed that nearly a thousand cancer patients have been wrongly treated there in the past nine years . |
| 8 | Right number ten , name the two fences which are only jumped once in the Grand National . |
| 9 | If used constructively , instructional programs can be very effective but they can be very boring if they are used merely to transfer work to the microcomputer which would be better carried out in the traditional manner . |
| 10 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 11 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 12 | For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college . |
| 13 | My constituent concludes : ’ The present government wants education standards to be improved but in the case of students , it will only result again in the rich' families being able to afford to send their children on to further education . |
| 14 | Martha 's school dress and books , her one skirt , two blouses and handful of frayed underwear were swiftly parcelled up in the coarse paper Nana used in the shop . |
| 15 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 16 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 17 | Its name in Greek means ‘ that which looks downwards ’ , a reference to its head being so heavy that it would only loll lazily in the hot sand , waiting for a victim to walk by . |
| 18 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 19 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 20 | ‘ We have only to put together in the right way what we know without adding anything , and the satisfaction we are trying to get from the explanation comes of itself . ’ |
| 21 | To like this a lot you probably need to be able to handle silent movies — though dialogue suddenly breaks out in the final scene , powerfully underlining the film 's more serious side . |
| 22 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
| 23 | That was all set out in the recent Security Council resolution to which I referred in my reply and for which we voted . |
| 24 | The Governors ' commitment to the new scientific revolution is perhaps summed up in the concluding paragraph of the Minutes : |
| 25 | It 's all laid out in the back room . |
| 26 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 27 | He 's only run twice in the last year , but he could n't have better owners . |
| 28 | we shall all end up in the same place |
| 29 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |
| 30 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |