Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 2 | Utilising existing artwork — such as that given in a project — simply involves tracing the copper track layout onto a film , using the methods described last month . |
| 3 | It completely overcomes the problem of matching your tension to that given in a pattern . |
| 4 | This year 's donations were the largest given in a single year . |
| 5 | There 's more of worth , more that uplifts in a single chorus of ‘ We Need Money' ’ than in a dozen of your picky , pedantic articles ! ’ |
| 6 | He also understood what few canvassers of the more earnest sort admit , even to themselves : that canvassing in a parliamentary election is not supposed to change electors ' minds . |
| 7 | It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ . |
| 8 | It is possible to see in a catalogue of this sort the origins of the very exact nomenclature found in many of Mary Leapor 's landscape descriptions ( see chapter three below ) . |
| 9 | By introducing a satellite RNA Ribonucleic Acid ( closely related to DNA ) , it has been possible to establish in a tobacco plant a heritable agent capable of preventing the development of the mosaic virus as it enters the cell . |
| 10 | There were fears that if the date for stabilisation was altered from that promised in a recent government white paper , the privatisation of the electricity industry would be jeopardised . |
| 11 | ( Infuriatingly , though , the notes are due to appear in a separate volume , which has still not been published , so it is impossible to tell whether the quotation comes from a letter , from conversation or from some unauthenticated report at second-hand . ) |
| 12 | The British Museum 's show was originally scheduled to coincide with the publication of its new catalogue of the drawings of Rembrandt and his School , due to appear in a few year 's time . |
| 13 | A converse implication of the " dress of thought " view is that it is possible to write in a style which is the nadir of plainness and neutrality . |
| 14 | The combination of port activities and maritime industries produced a rather different civil society from that found in a ‘ pure ’ port like Liverpool . |
| 15 | It would be awful to work in a place where everyone was miserable . |
| 16 | Rawlings worked out a procedure for network meetings similar to that used in a child abuse case conference . |
| 17 | It is also vital to keep all abrasives dust-free , and if possible to work in a dust-free environment . |
| 18 | There he was , all right — a tiny figure , in perfect colour , standing in front of a group of Watchmen whose faces were each frozen in a terrified rictus . |
| 19 | It would not be long before de Lattre faced the divisions of Giap 's new model army in the set-piece battles which the Vietminh were prepared to risk in a premature general offensive ; and it was in more conventional war of this kind where US assistance and particularly US munitions would apparently tip the scale . |
| 20 | On the other hand , maybe that soft , slightly husky voice belonged to a nicely rounded wench willing to indulge in a little loveplay as well as sing about it . |
| 21 | Another possibility is that the timescale represents recurrence in a physical limit-cycle , for example unstable flaring in a pair-plasma . |
| 22 | Beneath the skyline of modern Berlin , half hidden in a grassy wasteland , all that 's left of the bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide . |
| 23 | The bench table is fitted with a very useful horizontal angleguide which can be locked into any position in front of the disc , or it can be locked at the desired angle while being free to slide in a slot parallel with the disc face . |
| 24 | Whether or not it is sensible to invest in a tailor-made structure depends on the capitalized value of the savings derived from it in relation to the present value of its costs . |
| 25 | It 's easier to concentrate in a straight chair , I always find . |
| 26 | All this matters in a system with overlapping powers , with a tendency to divide Manhattan and its liberal politicians and the mayor from the concerns of the outer boroughs . |
| 27 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 28 | of all the records of this race since 1948 and that in 1972 occurred in a severe south-westerly gale . |
| 29 | I think this illustrates in a very nice way what has recently been described as a new erm family circle . |
| 30 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |