Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He burnt both retinas in his eyes , but was thankfully treated by a doctor in time , and has since completely recovered . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | THE Birmingham Readers and Writers Festival , now in it 's sixth year , is rightly regarded as a jewel in Birmingham 's civic crown . |
| 5 | I only change into a fighter in the last ten minutes before I get into the ring . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A clear /l/ is the more liquid sounding allophone of /l/ , which only occurs before a vowel in English and has no velarisation . |
| 11 | The approach is exciting and when the fall is suddenly revealed around a bend in the path , the effect is electrifying , a shock to the senses . |
| 12 | Occasionally we all suffer from influenza or a bout of sickness , which naturally results in a drop in weight . |
| 13 | The Bank of England merely acts as a bank in terms of these accounts , with the government making the decisions as to the level of public deposits . |
| 14 | It was absorbing work , scrambling over the rocks , especially hampered by a hat in one hand , so after a while she left the hat on a dry plateau beside a pool and pursued her way unencumbered . |
| 15 | But the caveat that was applied to affection applies even more strongly to status : it only acts as a constraint in settings where criminal activity is generally unfavourably evaluated . |
| 16 | First , the details of the synaptic connections from other neurons on to the dendrites determine what a neuron responds to ; think of them as forming a lock which is only opened by a key in the form of a particular pattern of activity in the neurons which make contact with it . |
| 17 | The parallel-derived , series-inserted feedback with unity feedback fraction makes it a very valuable circuit that is much used as a buffer in electronics . |
| 18 | In Section 12.7 there is a discussion of a number of factors which favour the use of short maturity contracts ( dividend risk , interest rate risk and mispricing risk ) for hedging , so leading to a rise in volume as delivery approaches . |
| 19 | Finding a sufficient number of tokens of a variable for each speaker did not apparently emerge as a problem in the early urban surveys which followed Labov 's 1966 model . |
| 20 | Simply , that the issues that affect our lives are entirely underpinned by a belief in women 's dubious nature ; their animality , their polluting tendencies , a sense that something might just erupt from the female that is dangerous and needs to be controlled . |
| 21 | The traditional division of language into the spoken and the written is clearly and sensibly based on a difference in production and reception : we use our mouths and ears for one , and our hands and eyes for the other . |
| 22 | These have all contributed to a growth in campaign spending . |
| 23 | This is why jet-lag is not so marked after a flight in the north-south direction . |
| 24 | We left the Legation as the sun rose and our cars were constantly brought to a standstill in the crowded streets . |
| 25 | Now consider the effect of a fall in aggregate demand ( perhaps caused by a cut in government spending or a reduction in investment demand ) which shifts the AD curve downwards from AD 1 to AD 2 . |
| 26 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 27 | Thus , transition to L-forms is not necessarily followed by a halt in the release of endotoxins . |
| 28 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 29 | They were men of such unyielding integrity ( they would only admit to a fault in order to show how it might be overcome ) that the wavering personality of a child could not rest for long against those monumental shoulders . |
| 30 | It has been argued , falsely I believe ( 22 ) , that investment in this sector of agriculture , as has occurred in the lowlands , will necessarily lead to a fall in the rural population . |