Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I later learnt that the corpse had been badly mauled in battle , the face disfigured by a crashing axe blow . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , the body was badly mauled in battle . ’ |
| 3 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 4 | It has a steady , auto-nomous source of money ( the social therapy business ) , and its followers are far better integrated into the mainstream of American life , with no Moonie-like flower sales , no Charlie Manson eyes , no anti-Semitism loosely cloaked in ravings about the Queen of England in the style of LaRouche . |
| 5 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 6 | It is this which ought to have been properly recalled in Freud 's later work , and he could then have introduced the term ‘ death instincts ’ to describe this basic , and in terms of the later theory , innate predisposition to kill other human beings . |
| 7 | Among the stars , mostly clad in graveyard black , who dutifully stepped along it , was Sadie Frost , wife of Spandau Ballet star Gary Kemp . |
| 8 | The staff believe that the course is unpopular because physical science is rarely taught in schools ; there is no longer , for example , a physical science A level . |
| 9 | More than 60 bogus applications have been found so far , mostly posted in Manchester and London . |
| 10 | It is most demanding in terms of irrelevant information — the information I think is irrelevant , all the extras — bits and pieces … |
| 11 | There is no doubt too that parents have become more aware that immunisation can carry a risk of adverse reaction and this has been most publicised in relation to the whooping cough vaccine . |
| 12 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 13 | The political historian , raised from the cradle to insist on the importance of chronology and context , would rather think in terms of intellectual biography . |
| 14 | A joint venture between English Nature and London Zoo 's Invertebrate Conservation team has resulted in Britain 's most endangered bush cricket , the wart-biter ( Decticus verrucivorus ) being successfully reared in captivity for the first time . |
| 15 | This account is rarely given in isolation . |
| 16 | He uses words like ‘ daft ’ ; phrases and dialogue that are rarely heard in songs but immediately provide flavour . |
| 17 | The familiar mainland gripe of skill shortages is rarely heard in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Thomson was born in Kansas City in 1896 , studied at Harvard , and then mostly lived in Paris until 1940 . |
| 19 | The concept is both described and trenchantly criticized in Valentine ( 1969 ) . |
| 20 | There are changes — the numbers were exceptionally high , as the hon. Gentleman graphically indicated just now — but still no one could claim that Northern Ireland was badly placed in respect of our proposals . |
| 21 | Yet , one of the catchwords that has been widely heard in Washington and elsewhere during the run up to the war has been the need to create a democratic environment in the Middle East after the war is over . |
| 22 | Thus the courts have , for example , limited their intervention in cases concerning homeless persons , using arguments concerning the subjectivity of administrative discretion which found little favour in cases such as Tameside considered above ; and they have counselled restraint in circumstances where propositions of law are interwoven with issues of social and ethical controversy concerning the scope of parental rights , while being more willing to intervene where legal issues are intertwined with questions of social and economic choice , as in the Bromley case . |
| 23 | ‘ In those days , the new psychology was just beginning to make itself felt in the circles I most frequented in Oxford , ’ he told readers of the 1950 reprint of Dymer . |
| 24 | The Design Change ( DC ) assessment has been successfully registered in LIFESPAN . |
| 25 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 26 | The US administration has reined back its support from Mrs Aquino after the initial commitment of air support — now widely regarded in Washington as a move which further weakened her authority . |
| 27 | The couple have a home in Hollywood and a farm in Vermont , but Michael , who is widely regarded in Hollywood as a workaholic , found it hard to put family first and is now keen to produce his own films as well as act in them . |
| 28 | Differences in strike commitment are liable to be more effectively explained in terms of such variables as the culture of each coalfield , traditional loyalties to the area or national levels of the union and the type of lead given by branch and area officials at the outset of the dispute . |
| 29 | The river Severn — claims Greenpeace — is already badly polluted in places , caused mainly by the cocktail of chemicals and heavy metals discharged into its estuary by factories at Avonmouth . |
| 30 | Wilkinson ( 1990 ) suggests that temporal adjuncts are rarely placed in theme position in Dutch . |