Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was happening I realised that here was a rare opportunity for the public to experience science in action , feel the excitement that drives inquisitive minds , and see how discoveries are made , tested , replicated , proven and developed into a new technology . |
| 2 | Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology . |
| 3 | Skip brought a few friends on the boat when he found the Soviets were not skilled ocean racers ( it became most apparent in Alexei 's case ) . |
| 4 | The value of this approach became most evident in the period after the First World War , which many regard as marking the terminus of the era of belief in continuous evolutionary progress of human society . |
| 5 | It was a horrible practice , and became most common in the reign of Henry VII , and especially in the eastern counties . |
| 6 | But then Sir John was renowned throughout the diplomatic world for his savoir-faire , his monolithic calm and his ability to remain wholly unruffled in the most trying and difficult situations . |
| 7 | It 'll remain rather cloudy in the east tonight , with some drizzly rain at times . |
| 8 | However , this view arises because a klima-genetische geomorphologie was proposed by Büdel ( 1963 ) and became widely available in the English reading literature in 1965 ( Holzner and Weaver , 1965 ) . |
| 9 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 10 | The 20-year-old Belfast driver has signed to race with the Kurt Luby team in this year 's series after parting company with them when things started to go badly wrong in 1992 . |
| 11 | Dismayingly , things got little better in the post-Ottoman period . |
| 12 | There are many variations , but plan and elevations remain fundamentally unchanged in the great temples of the fifth century : of Zeus at Olympia ( plan fig. 120 ) and the Parthenon ( view fig. 129 ) . |
| 13 | Beware , however , of a succession of interviews and nothing else which , while corresponding perhaps to a real-life investigation , can became rather repetitive in pattern and thus boring , even in the hands of such a skilled practitioner as Ngaio Marsh who often laid out her books on these lines . |
| 14 | In the event , the whole subject became rather fanciful in the writings of bygone heralds , their petty ‘ rules ’ never fully translated into practical expression . |
| 15 | Their suspicions and anxieties were further fuelled when both Laud and the Archbishop of York , Richard Neile , were appointed to Charles 's privy council , and became intimately involved in the king 's plans to achieve a more ordered secular , as well as ecclesiastical commonwealth . |
| 16 | Above all , he seems to see only good in science , and ignores the dark side , where it has direct connections with exploitation , tyranny , and war . |
| 17 | With so many shades of grey to choose from , how can you be so sure that it 's right to see so much in your life in terms of black and white ? |
| 18 | That is why the contests for the Labour Party 's leadership and deputy leadership sit so ill in the context of the continuing post-mortem — or biopsy , as Neil Kinnock insisted on calling it — after Labour 's fourth consecutive election defeat . |
| 19 | By the time the threat to their system became suddenly apparent in the summer of 1989 , it was too late to shift the sort of fabulous amounts rumoured at Christmas 1989 into foreign accounts . |
| 20 | At his recommendation , the uniform of the British Army was changed to khaki which became so familiar in the subsequent world wars , |
| 21 | Gerald became so successful in farming and property that he was able to retire at the age of forty . |
| 22 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 23 | Because high-rise flats became so popular in the city in the 1970s , the demand for modular furniture appropriate for small residences rose . |
| 24 | TWO ponies became so amorous in their horse box that they sent it plunging off a road and down a bank near Islip , Oxon , yesterday . |
| 25 | However , what such an analysis fails to take into account is that the evidence of wrong-doing that became so public in the United States would almost certainly have never surfaced in the United Kingdom , given the laws of libel and the willingness of the British people to tolerate secrecy in government . |
| 26 | The Minoan priests and priestesses became so expert in this art that they became famous for it throughout the Aegean world . |
| 27 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 28 | This is insufficient to explain why radical protest suddenly became so salient in the late 1960s . |
| 29 | Clarke thereby played a major part in the thrust towards international standardization that became so important in late nineteenth-century European science . |
| 30 | The touring painters , however , showed little sympathy towards the quiet intimacy of the valleys and lakes which became so evident in the literature at the end of the 18th century . |