Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 2 | The electrons may be emitted from a hot cathode maintained at a fixed temperature and then conducted through a stable arrangement of electric and magnetic fields which imparts to them a certain amount of energy and focusses them in a particular region of space . |
| 3 | Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction . |
| 4 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 5 | This product grabs Windows by the lapels and uses it in a whole new way . |
| 6 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 7 | Separation releases the brakes of the inhibition and frees us in the two worlds . |
| 8 | This is the earliest known picture of the house , and shows it in the first half of the nineteenth century before the ground level at the front of the building was raised |
| 9 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 10 | She makes her own glazes from vegetable ash and fires them in a small wood-burning kiln we built together . ’ |
| 11 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 12 | But tonight she does n't , she soaps Xanthe , urges Miranda to rub and rinse , then helps Xanthe up and lifts her clear of the edge of the tub , on to the mat , and wraps her in a pale green towel and sits her on her lap , spreading her knees to fit her on , as Xanthe is getting big for this babying , but still enjoys it , as does Serafine . |
| 13 | Aside from that , it 's a system that adopts a metaphor that everyone is familiar with and implements it in an intuitive way . |
| 14 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 15 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 16 | The historian starts with some knowledge or facts ( a ) , adds opinion , interpretations , judgements , ( b ) and ( c ) and presents them in a logical and relevant essay ( d ) . |
| 17 | Draws together much of the recent scholarship on Degas , both art historical and technical , and presents it in a readable but sophisticated manner . |
| 18 | Sue now weighs 8st 3lbs ( 52 kg ) and tells me in an accompanying letter that her weight loss and subsequent new figure has completely changed her life in every respect . |
| 19 | It makes meaningful an analysis of the level ( or levels ) of ideology and relates it in a non-reductive way to the economic base — the mode of production . |
| 20 | A statement that something does not happen both creates an event and abolishes it in the same act ( 1976k:21–2 ) . |
| 21 | A statement which reads data in internal format from a file and puts them in the specified variables . |
| 22 | This production , which updates the play and sets it in the sixties , toured the Continent and gave our company the reputation it now enjoys there . |
| 23 | Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit . |
| 24 | Boy chases girl and catches her in a fond embrace without pausing as they cover the stage with footwork of a speed rarely seen elsewhere . |
| 25 | In the novels I am thinking of he attributes certain ideas to certain characters and utters them in the prevailing manner of the novel , while also submitting them to question within it . |