Example sentences of "it [verb] in [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 2 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |
| 3 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
| 4 | Of course exactly that case never occurs , or if it does it occurs in such a way that it is not recognized as being a repeat run of the previous bitter experience . |
| 5 | It describes in particular the ways in which Provençal painting , influenced by the development of photography , ‘ japonisme ’ and out of doors sketching , used a range of techniques which art history has previously only associated with the Paris-based Impressionists . |
| 6 | In such situations its decision should only be overturned for bias when it acted in such a way prior to its decision that it could not properly have exercised its discretion , taking due account of its interest in the proceedings . |
| 7 | It emphasizes in particular the importance of the recent adoption of Community legislation on money laundering [ approved by EC Finance Ministers on June 10 and effective from Jan. 1 , 1993 ] . " |
| 8 | When it began in 1978 the series was described in the publicity blurb in the following terms : ‘ Gamma rays turn angry scientist into raging , seven-foot tall green monster ! ’ |
| 9 | That would explain why it appears in half the songs , which apparently deal with starvation , AIDS and the end of the world along the way , although we 'll have to take the press release 's word for that . |
| 10 | There it swims , slowly spinning , driven by its cilia , as it re-enacts in miniature the journeys made through the primordial seas by the sperm cells of its algal ancestors . |
| 11 | How far can it go in half an hour ? |
| 12 | Yanto laughed when he realised the old joker had palmed the sawdust and was allowing it to trickle in such a way as to give the impression that it was trickling from his ear . |
| 13 | An enormous bomb fell on a place nearby called Spurgeon 's Tabernacle , so close that it blew in all the windows and knocked the marquee for six . |
| 14 | It welcomes in particular the agreements reached on insurance and public purchasing , … as well as on the final phase of air transport liberalization [ see below ] and on maritime cabotage " . |
| 15 | it was kind of hard for them to pay it and that 's were it came in that the people who actually had the black book would lose out on their dividend because their dividend would be used to pay what was owed by other people . |
| 16 | He came into the room and poured himself a glass of water from the earthenware jug which stood , as it did in all the offices of Cairo , in the window so that the air currents could cool it . |
| 17 | At the far end a bittern stood — just as it does in all the books , just as it does in all those television nature films : in bizarre ‘ bittern-stance ’ . |
| 18 | It works in such a way that lower interest rates may fail to boost credit and demand . |