Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 3 | Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise . |
| 4 | The US Magellan spacecraft launched in May 1989 [ see p. 36674 ] was successfully placed in an elliptical orbit around the planet Venus on Aug. 10 . |
| 5 | AS the self-proclaimed party of law and order the Tories appear to have the most to lose in the emotive debate on escalating crime . |
| 6 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 7 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 8 | The Edinburgh Conference decisions , particularly on " non-intervention " in Spain , were widely resented in the Labour movement . |
| 9 | The rate of interest is set by the lender and is governed by a host of economic factors , all widely publicised in the national press . |
| 10 | In spite of all Diana 's effort it was badly crushed in the short journey to St Paul 's . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 12 | The crumple-faced star — known for his love of the good life — once said : ‘ I 'd rather stay in the second line . |
| 13 | The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world . |
| 14 | In business , an employee near retirement age may well be given a job with a grand title in a department which has little influence in the overall scheme of things . |
| 15 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 16 | After examining non-vocational adult education in England and Wales , this report suggested little change in the existing division of responsibility for adult education between LEAs , the university extra-mural departments and voluntary bodies such as the WEA . |
| 17 | Little change in the political map |
| 18 | There was , however , little change in the rigid separation of spheres between the male world of work and the world of home and family experienced by adult women . |
| 19 | The beamed lounge with its log fire is elegantly furnished in a country-house style . |
| 20 | It is exclusively produced in tropical countries and mostly consumed in the industrialized North . |
| 21 | As soon as he was free — she gave a glance of distaste towards the police car discreetly parked in the farthest corner of the courtyard — Monsieur Bonard would proceed with their lesson . |
| 22 | In all of the cells for which lipid compositional asymmetries have been described the negatively charged phospholipids are predominantly located in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane , while the zwitterionic phospholipids , containing the phosphorylcholine headgroup , are found in the outer leaflet . |
| 23 | It may occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract but is predominantly located in the gastro-oesophageal junction and in the stomach along the lesser curvature . |
| 24 | Many could successfully survive in a harsh environment , and their bodies enabled them to evolve into larger and more diverse creatures . |
| 25 | The novelty of girls on the premises was duly reported in the local press when term started , and quite quickly forgotten , too , as they settled in with very little fuss . |
| 26 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 27 | On the other hand , sections from inflamed oesophageal mucosa contain little EGF in the capillary endothelium resulting in few EGF positive papillae . |
| 28 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 29 | David Smith was flown in from England as cover for Gooch , only to have his thumb badly bruised in the one-day international in Barbados and so miss the Bridgetown Test . |
| 30 | Dead trees turn out to be commonplace — hundreds of them standing knee deep in the wide , slow meanders of the Murray River or more loosely scattered in a macabre parkland where what passes for good grazing has been toasted a mauvy brown by the long summer sun . |