Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His back was to her , he was toddling along purposefully in the same direction as her , across that bleak empty landscape . |
| 2 | A Bristol merchant , of Quaker origin , called William Springett bought Alderly in the early 1740s and determined to turn what was then a small and jumbled Tudor manor into an up-to-date gentleman 's seat . |
| 3 | With no daylight at all penetrating to the interior of the foundry , it looked more hellish than ever , its furnaces glowing fiercely in the smoky gloom . |
| 4 | The announcement was greeted sceptically in the National Assembly and by the press , which claimed that the surplus was illusory as the government trade figures were distorted by smuggling , variable exchange rates , barter deals and restrictions on imports . |
| 5 | The control panel is sited very sensibly in a line-of-sight position , on the upper edge of the body , toward the neck joint . |
| 6 | As a boy I would watch this process each evening , vaguely wanting to hold it back ( and seeing it , with adolescent melancholy , as the pinpoint of human existence fading inexorably in a black universe ) . |
| 7 | Since her husband had gone to join her , her tomb had been neglected , and sand was already drifting across its entrance , covering it inexorably in a red blanket . |
| 8 | Another path leads inexorably in a different direction , into the detailed study of the workings of the Earth 's atmosphere and climatic systems . |
| 9 | This bugles-and-banners stridency , drowning out the elegant salon music of pre-war Europe 's Indian summer , culminated inexorably in the Great War and the subsequent rise of Fascist dictatorships . |
| 10 | Even so , the tensions between the EEC and EFTA abated somewhat in the early 1960s . |
| 11 | The trend towards consolidation slowed down somewhat in the 1970s . |
| 12 | This situation improved somewhat in the 1970s , and international agencies have been systematically organizing the collection of such data . |
| 13 | Limitations on advertising were relaxed somewhat in the late 1970s . |
| 14 | ( This , again , will have fallen somewhat in the following two years . ) |
| 15 | The situation quietened somewhat in the following days , as Serbia despatched 2,000 police reinforcements to the province ; at the same time , however , the neighbouring republic of Slovenia withdrew its police contingent on Feb. 4 . |
| 16 | While TNC investment in the developing countries levelled off somewhat in the 1980s ( UNCTC , 1988 ) , the growth of export-oriented employment , mainly due to increased TNC activity in export processing ( often referred to as ‘ production sharing ’ in the business press ) continued to be rapid . |
| 17 | Somewhat in the same boat may be groups of younger teachers who see education in personal/emotional , or in political terms , and who are feeling their values particularly heavily trodden on by the current educational reforms . |
| 18 | Many of the fish species migrate from one river system to another : they can travel 20–30 km upstream in a single day and seeds can remain in their guts for 1 7 days . |
| 19 | General Lee had entered Maryland with 50,000 men , but the Brigade that was skirmishing its way towards Harper 's Ferry had left nothing behind but blackened camp-fires and crushed grasses , while the advance line of MacArthur 's Guard moved warily upstream in the late evening in pursuit . |
| 20 | The Tyne was heavily polluted , from about Prudhoe down to the sea , but after rain , salmon swam upstream in the clean water on top of the flood . |
| 21 | The infectivity of these particles was expected since they incorporate both the antibody-envelope fusion protein and unmodified envelope protein which is also expressed abundantly in the retroviral packaging cell line . |
| 22 | regardless in the other direction . |
| 23 | He stood straighter in the water , his broad chest glistening wetly in the multicoloured light . |
| 24 | Following the solo epics reported here over recent months by Catherine Destivelle on the Petit Dru and Jean-Pierre Lafaille on Mont Blanc , there 's news of another very difficult new route climbed solo in the French Alps . |
| 25 | Further evidence that you have to climb solo in the big hills to make a name for yourself these days was produced , in dramatic fashion , in the Mont Blanc massif this summer . |
| 26 | Remember to make the shape of your mount echo that of the letter you are designing — for example , if you want to create a capital I , it will fit far better in a long , thin , rectangular mount , say 22.5 × 15cm ( 9 × 6in ) , with an aperture 5cm ( 2in ) smaller all round , than a circular frame or mount . |
| 27 | The results indicate that pupils need more practical experience but the result of an APU practical test item suggests that lower attainers would currently do no better in a practical than in a written test situation . |
| 28 | Sun readers will not become Times readers simply because the latter is somehow ‘ superior ’ ; they are Sun readers because it ‘ serves ’ them better in a complex social and psychological way . |
| 29 | After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport . |
| 30 | Well , A E Housman put it rather better in a different context . |