Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the penalties for water pollution offences are in theory more severe than most field staff believe them to be , they remain frail in comparison with those available to sanction traditional crime . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps she 'd fallen asleep in Christopher 's room . |
| 3 | Paul , who had fallen asleep in front of the TV after making chips , was wakened by 11-month old Keely coughing . |
| 4 | The intermediary in the deal was Christoph Graf Douglas , head of Sotheby 's Germany , who pleaded strongly for the collection to remain intact in Germany . |
| 5 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 6 | Successive reforms failed to end patronage and to establish the sort of professional , rationally organized state bureaucracy loyal to the notion of public service that the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms made possible in Britain . |
| 7 | The escape , made possible in part by the chemical explosion in Quinn of the Fury , is followed by a series of independent forays in which Quinn seizes a French sloop carrying hides by following it into a secret harbour and pretending he and his men are drunken sailors returning on board , rescues Royalist prisoners from a castle by skulking and climbing , seizes another French ship by disguising the prize vessel under his command as French , and outwits a pirate ship by means of a collision ( rescuing , by the way , a young Contessa who adds a romantic touch to the story ) . |
| 8 | Rural areas and subsistence-level farmers were neglected or actually excluded from the benefits which copper exports made possible in terms of schools , health facilities , agricultural inputs and credit ( Bwayla 1980 , Klepper 1980 , 1981 , ODG 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Jimmy White laid low in Britain and was finally caught in 1966 . |
| 10 | Allison , now 26 , from Borstal in Kent , first became pregnant in May 1987 . |
| 11 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 12 | ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus . |
| 13 | He was almost afraid to fall asleep in case he was pulled from his bed in the middle of the night and thrashed . |
| 14 | He had managed to fall asleep in spite of the lingering taste of the worm-cake in his mouth . |
| 15 | Between 7700 and 8000 years ago , within three short centuries , the Columbian Mammoth , the Dire Wolf , the Camel , the Horse , the Giant Armadillo and the Western Bison all became extinct in North America . |
| 16 | There is no reason why a child has to know that some life forms became extinct in order to be able to measure variations between living organisms , nor is there any clear difference in difficulty between these two statements . |
| 17 | ( A frog can be boiled alive in water that is brought to boil slowly . ) |
| 18 | This particular skill of Tamburlaine 's is a recurrent theme from start to finish , and we first notice it when he is confronted by Theridamas. he realises that the odds are stacked high in Theridamas ' favour when it comes to the battle , and so he decides to appease Theridamas , and he uses his words as weapons . |
| 19 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |
| 20 | It was through her that I became interested in life . |
| 21 | When Veronica Sive first became interested in photography through a friend 's guidance , she became aware of the basic elements of the new medium . |
| 22 | It was about the time of the William & Mary declaration that a group , predominately Quaker , and motivated by one Dr. Edward Wright " Physician at the Sign of the Ship neare the Monument in London " , became interested in mining and smelting . |
| 23 | Nor is it clear in what way Penn ( if he was indeed Philippos and/or Zoophilus ) became interested in Vial 's plan . |
| 24 | At one point in his career he became interested in toxoplasmosis and shortly thereafter developed a diagnostic dye test for the disease . |
| 25 | Realising that rowing was n't viable long-term , he soon became interested in karate and after a short time at the university club looked further afield for tutoring . |
| 26 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
| 27 | On leaving the Institution at the age of 18 , he became interested in church work through the influence of a Rev. Mansfield Owen whose cousin was Pearce 's boyhood deaf friend . |
| 28 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
| 29 | She became interested in Medau just over ten years ago and qualified as a Medau teachers in 1979 . |
| 30 | Pauline Kenward , the Society 's Chairman , who comes from Reigate first became interested in Medau in 1968 when she joined Margaret Charlwood 's class ; from there she went on to train and qualified as a teacher in 1974 . |