Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this strategy may be appropriate for a ‘ mission area ’ where only a few pockets of Christians are to be found and they have to decide between going to one place at the expense of another , it must be applied rather differently in a situation where the Church has extensive geographical coverage . |
| 2 | The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade . |
| 3 | This can be seen most clearly in a comparison of the attitudes towards private property enshrined in the United States constitution with those in the constitution of the old Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Thanks to the site 's owners , the Guiting Manor Amenity Trust , excavation continues to search for signs of those whose victim has lain undisturbed for so long and for a reason why the site was built so carefully in a line with the mid-summer sun . |
| 5 | I 'd seen long ago in a wild-life programme about |
| 6 | This argument can be formulated more quantitatively in a way that both helps with the understanding of it and shows what determines the width of the fingers . |
| 7 | When she passed him the number of her room ( thinking no one else knew she had ) and left to await him , he remained in the ballroom drinking , and when I left at midnight he was still there looking bored and lonely , missing his live-in girlfriend Marie Lisa Volpelierre ( who not long after died so tragically in a riding accident ) . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
| 9 | This , she said , left her unable to support the actions of the Social Work Department , and extremely concerned that they had acted too hastily in a situation that was not of life-threatening proportions to the children involved . |
| 10 | Sukarno had demonstrated once again in a crisis that he represented unity . |
| 11 | Though Came , with its moderate , manor house proportions , may seem on the small side to be set so grandly in a park , Sir John Damer certainly did n't skimp on employing the very best craftsmen in all London . |
| 12 | He knew exactly where to look for the nest of any bird we were likely to come across and by certain local circumstances was unerringly guided to a nest hidden deep perhaps in a thorn bush … . |
| 13 | Remember , if a PIW links with a previous PIW there may not be any waiting days left to serve because waiting days are served only once in a PIW . |
| 14 | A new subject can be inserted almost anywhere in a sequence by the use of decimal subdivision . |
| 15 | FAMED FOR his big , blaring , action-packed war movie , Oliver Stone 's most persuasive picture is centred almost entirely in a radio station . |
| 16 | If left too long in a situation of abandonment , the split is not healed and comes to be used as a predominant defence , as it did with Clive and Rose Greenacre . |
| 17 | Johanna 's trainers had been placed neatly together in a hedgerow , 400 yards from the pit . |
| 18 | Unlike /h/ , however , [ r ] seems to have been lost quite early in a forerunner of the institutional British accent ( RP ) at a time when consciousness of the standard ideology was beginning to develop , and it is this difference in the social evaluation of ( r ) and ( h ) which seems to be the explanation for dominant attitudes to it . |
| 19 | By dint of careful and meticulous research she was able to provide the defence with evidence that every significant statement published in the Sunday Telegraph had been published somewhere already in a newspaper , a magazine or a book . |
| 20 | A relatively clear-cut organisation of this kind , later to become the typical form of internal structure of all foreign offices , had already been introduced in 1661 in Sweden , where the small machine for the control of foreign policy was still part of the royal chancery and hardly an independent entity at all ; but it is interesting that it should also have evolved relatively early in a country still so isolated and underdeveloped as Russia . |