Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 2 | So , too , the feeling that life was becoming ‘ Americanised ’ has been used unsparingly to describe the process of ‘ permissive ’ rot and the collapse of traditional authority — most forcibly registered in the adoption of the term ‘ mugging ’ to disown as ‘ un-British ’ the old-fashioned crime of street robbery . |
| 3 | For the different theoretical conceptions of the company have been intimately embroiled in the effort of company law to justify the vesting of substantial power in corporate management . |
| 4 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ He is widely regarded in the West as the token liberal , ’ Sims explained . |
| 6 | He was eventually placed in the custody of the Earl Marshal , the Earl of March , while Lyons was sentenced to imprisonment and all his goods were forfeited . |
| 7 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 8 | The 1948 treaty had been widely criticized in the West for limiting Finnish sovereignty , but was defended by successive Finnish governments for providing an accommodation with a powerful neighbour which protected Finland 's market economy and pluralist political system . |
| 9 | No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again . |
| 10 | The more negative and distressing aspects of friendship are rarely examined in the literature on adolescence . |
| 11 | THE United States has discreetly intervened in the gathering of Lebanese parliamentarians in Taif by sending two State Department officials to emphasise Washington 's support for political reform in Lebanon . |
| 12 | He had only one more room to do , he said , and he should have finished long before this but he 'd been badly delayed in the car on the other side of the dining car , which he had in his care also . |
| 13 | Though residents find little change in the quality of living under these arrangements , they are generally pleased with the traffic calming that has resulted , though less so than those who live in the streets that have been completely rebuilt . |
| 14 | Legalization is required in other cases unless the letters rogatory are transmitted through consular or diplomatic channels or through ‘ the ’ Central Authority ( semble of the state of origin ) 217 ; a letter rogatory legalized by a competent consular or diplomatic agent is ‘ presumed to be duly legalized in the State of origin ’ . |
| 15 | Electronic data interchange , or EDI , is another of those information technology concepts that , after politely lurking in the background for a few decades , is suddenly forcing itself on our attention with unmannerly persistence . |
| 16 | Even so , proof of reliance is not difficult especially in view of s13(3) of SGA 1979 which provides that ordinary articles of commerce as specific goods are expressly included in the definition of sale by description . |
| 17 | It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies . |
| 18 | There were any number of flogging editorials in response to the Hooligan outrages — in The Daily Mail , for example , the News of the World and even the medical journal The Lancet — and the Ratepayers ' Association manifesto was widely reported in the press as evidence of public support for flogging . |
| 19 | Indeed , although parts of the inheritance were granted out , the lords successfully petitioned in the parliament of September 1331 for the restoration to Mortimer 's son Edmund of the family 's lands in mid-Wales , including Wigmore , Maelienydd , Caedewen and Cwmwd Deuddwr . |
| 20 | In former days this emotional moment could not arise because archbishops had little say in the choice of bishops and no say at all in the choice of their successor . |
| 21 | Refugee recipients had very little say in the administration of services and were insufficiently encouraged to do so . |
| 22 | Patients are at the bottom of the pecking order and have very little say in the running of services . |
| 23 | Scientists interpreting the greenhouse effect today know that the oceans act as a massive ‘ sink ’ containing fifty times as much carbon as the atmosphere , mostly dissolved in the form of bicarbonate . |
| 24 | Henry Smith did not , however , follow this new British school , but chose rather to work in the theory of numbers and elliptic functions , in which the Germans were pre-eminent . |
| 25 | I should perhaps explain in the context of your various questions when I say that erm we do want to become involved in these things , that , at this stage , and we 've only held two meetings , we have just identified themes and general areas in which we want to work , and not precise projects or activities . |
| 26 | The futuristic vision of hypnotic living and machine sex was imported from Europe : from Germany came Kraftwerk with ‘ Autobahn ’ and ‘ Trans-Europe Express ’ ; from France came Jean-Marc Cerrone with ‘ Supernature ’ and from the South Tyrol , crucially placed in the centre of Germany , Italian , Swiss and German culture , came Giorgio Moroder with Donna Summer 's ‘ Love To Love You Baby ’ and ‘ I Feel Love ’ . |
| 27 | These relations , which are part of economic practice , can only exist in the context of a legal system which establishes individual agents as buyers and sellers . |
| 28 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 29 | As there are many persons of distinction in England who are pleased to honour the art of gardening by making it a considerable part of their amusement and have been greatly assisting in the introducing of large numbers of new plants , shrubs and trees into the English gardens and as some of these noble persons have studied the science of botany and are well acquainted with the characters and true names of the plants … their example will render it necessary for the professors of Gardening at least to know the plants they cultivate by their proper titles … |
| 30 | But whereas in M Butterfly the theatrical flash and illusion is entirely implicated in the theme of the representation and misrecognition of one culture by another , in The Royal Hunt of the Sun , at least in this revival , it has no such purpose . |