Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 2 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 3 | In view of the growth of the tutorial class movement and of adult education generally , which carries with it an increasing demand for courses in English literature , the influence and responsibilities of English departments at Universities , especially in the provinces , are likely to be extended considerably in the near future . |
| 4 | You get what in reality is a new set of rules of law — rules which you can rely on as likely or certain to be applied uniformly in the future . |
| 5 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 6 | The paper is clipped together by firm bulldog clips at the top edge of the required piece of hardboard , so allowing the charts to be turned over in an upwards direction . |
| 7 | Owner Richard Burridge ( above ) reports his tough grey almost back to his old self and the horse may be well enough to be turned out in a paddock today . |
| 8 | Immunisation for teenage girls against rubella also reduces the chance that pregnant women will catch and transmit the infection to their unborn children , with possible resultant brain damage ; and biochemical screening of pregnant women to detect phenylketonuria enables the condition to be treated promptly in the newborn infant ( Graham , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | I did n't care to be squashed up in the shelter . |
| 10 | You can also ask for the patient 's meal to be cut up in the kitchen ready to eat , although this is something that can be done when you order the meal . |
| 11 | We are sending you Hurtard our serjeant , to cause oaks to be cut down in the said forest and carried to Winchester against Christmas , for our hearth . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , feelings of hostility and anger have to be deposited somewhere in the environment , otherwise the feelings of aggression would have to be acknowledged and acted upon . |
| 13 | I mean it 's most unnatural for a child not to be chatting away in the presence of grandparents is n't it ? |
| 14 | But , whatever it is that her flooding liquid pigment does , one thing it always seems to be bringing about in the beholder . |
| 15 | In 1763 the now very substantial collection in the Louvre ( even in 1715 it had amounted to 2,000 bound volumes ) returned to Versailles to be kept there in a new foreign ministry building . |
| 16 | Consequently , a linchpin of Vermuyden 's scheme , a catch-dyke skirting the eastern edge of the fens , was abandoned , to be constructed only in the 1960s . |
| 17 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 18 | The rotors were intended as auxiliary sources of power , and , as such , to be run only in an envelope of conditions useful for their operation . |
| 19 | The first time because he had allowed himself to be called away in the middle of things and had n't been able to supervise the men properly . |
| 20 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 21 | Make-up had run and faded , shoulder straps were drooping , the music was slow and sleepy , so that the dancers seemed to be twined together in a kind of trance . |
| 22 | In this case the defendants , who were manufacturers of electronic components , collected on their land a large number of strips of metal foil , light enough to be blown about in the wind . |
| 23 | The persecution of Iraq 's Shia Moslems is to be revealed tonight in a Central Television documentary . |
| 24 | Indeed there is , if anything , a tendency for the final events to be revealed early in the investigation while the factors which led to them remain obscure until a much later stage , and some do not ever emerge at all . |
| 25 | Idea the participant observer is virtually a spy , since to be accepted completely in a particular capacity within a group the observer should be thought of as actually being in nothing but that capacity . |
| 26 | The next psychological breakpoint is the 1,000dpi mark which was the point at which digital phototypesetting began to be accepted back in the late 60s and through the 70s . |
| 27 | A child molester sentenced to be detained indefinitely in a mental hospital has escaped , and the mother of his victim has warned he 's still dangerous . |
| 28 | There are twelve early connections at 140 megabits per second , with about another forty connections at 10 megabits to be connected late in the year . |
| 29 | Since the furlongs , strips and balks were all to be swept away in the ensuing award and a new field system devised , it was only natural that the commissioners should do this . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , declining confidence in the pound , and perhaps in the ‘ Thatcher Revolution , ’ is severely constraining ministers at a time when — as a formidable faction in the Cabinet has recognised — the Government needs to give a higher priority to the quality of life if it is not to be swept aside in the 1990s . |