Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup . |
| 2 | He burnt both retinas in his eyes , but was thankfully treated by a doctor in time , and has since completely recovered . |
| 3 | The suggestion put forward by Hall and Schachtman was that the dishabituation observed in their experiment was not the consequence of a failure of input and representation to match , but rather depended on a change in level of arousal . |
| 4 | Downstairs , when Jessica had stormed out , her parents had found themselves remarkably constrained by the stranger in their midst . |
| 5 | In the emergence of this ‘ young generation ’ of independent means lies the early identification of the sector of the population which was to be so effectively targeted by the market in the postwar era . |
| 6 | It is a curious comment on Thatcherism , however , that the administration most committed to a reduction in the role of the state , and in the need for an independent private sector , has spent more on specific urban regeneration and employment schemes and incentives to private investment in urban areas than any other in recent history . |
| 7 | Creatures were not necessarily placed on the earth in the form in which they appeared now . |
| 8 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 9 | THE Birmingham Readers and Writers Festival , now in it 's sixth year , is rightly regarded as a jewel in Birmingham 's civic crown . |
| 10 | I only change into a fighter in the last ten minutes before I get into the ring . ’ |
| 11 | It 's never going to rumble through the floor in the way that a similarly priced 4x10 would , but they 're obviously catering for a gap in the market which is n't being filled very successfully . |
| 12 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 13 | An instructive example of members of a peaceful society being suddenly propelled into a situation in which violence was rewarded is provided by the Semai of Malaysia . |
| 14 | It must be emphasised that this legal position , whereby the company is exempted from certain rules of the host state , can only arise in a case in which services are provided without a place of business being established in the host state . |
| 15 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 16 | The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms . |
| 17 | That joint reading perhaps lies behind the appeal in Walahfrid 's prologue that the quest for wisdom be revived and widened " in modern times " . |
| 18 | States escaped relatively unscathed last year ; not so cities and counties , which are less constrained by the law in matters of budgetary irresponsibility . |
| 19 | Mr and Mrs Maughan — who only moved to the house in King 's Heath , Birmingham , a month ago — were being comforted by relatives . |
| 20 | The neighbouring city of Napier was entirely rebuilt after an earthquake in 1931 and this is not only a feature of the museum but many of the buildings are still in the style of the period , Art Deco . |
| 21 | Your former employer should pay the amount so claimed by the Department in respect of social security benefits that you have received . |
| 22 | It merely adds to the deprivation in the world . |
| 23 | She was a large , cheerful lady with bad varicose ulcers which she was constantly banging against the furniture in her house on non-Varicose Vein Clinic days . |
| 24 | At very least this habit will get us out of a rigid frame of mind which only looks at the problem in away determined by experience . |
| 25 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 26 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 27 | For these reasons , Coffin is perhaps better seen as a case in which the Divisional Court , contrary to the evidence , concluded that the situation was such that a breach of the peace was likely , and that the officers were seeking to prevent that at the time when the assault took place . |
| 28 | Staff and students sat down together to engage in an exercise in creative thought . |
| 29 | One of them , it was pointed out to him , was the great ex-Soviet chess player , Korchnoi , who is apparently training with the team in order to reach maximum physical fitness for his world title challenge to his arch-rival , the darling of the Soviets , Karpov . |
| 30 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |