Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world . |
| 2 | In dealing with the Renaissance , we are assuming , as de Man above indicates , that there is a relation between language and the phenomenal ( i.e. the range of activities undertaken in a defined historical period ) which is an a priori given . |
| 3 | Take , for example , the perceptual experience that I have while looking at this bunch of carnations arranged in a vase on the table in the middle of the room . |
| 4 | Here , the researcher explores how the foraging patterns develop in a similar way to the patterns that can be produced on a computer by following simple , repetitive rules . |
| 5 | One fox was caught , too far away for the riders to see in a day of little incident . |
| 6 | Weaver birds reared in an incubator still manage to weave when they become adult , so clearly the basic skill is inherited , but it nonetheless requires practice to bring it to perfection and at first young male weavers may make comically ham-fisted versions — nests that are insecurely tied and fall off , others that are unevenly woven with some strips pulled tight and others left slack so that the result is misshapen . |
| 7 | No matter how pressed for time or strapped for cash you may be , should you pass by one of these shops , with a window display of dummies wearing neatly ironed kagouls and ice-axes arranged in a fan shape round a rucksack , you will go inside and not leave until you have purchased a pair of thick socks . |
| 8 | Mark Robins bamboozled two defenders to whip in a cross which make-shift striker Rob Newman headed past England keeper Chris Woods . |
| 9 | Texts and objects combine in a new installation by Marlene McCarthy at Metro Pictures until 27 March and new paintings featuring over-sized calligraphic texts figure in Linda Daniel 's new work at Jose Freire Fine Arts , until 21 March . |
| 10 | It appears that he stepped on one of those box mines placed in a gap in a hedgerow . |
| 11 | Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent . |
| 12 | The analytical skills developed in an economic and social history degree , and particularly the ability to interpret bodies of often conflicting information , are prized by potential employers . |
| 13 | A second explanation is in terms of the frustrations that men of the disadvantaged classes and ethnic groups suffer in a class-based and racist society . |
| 14 | Leeds scored through Wallace with 7 minutes to go in an evenly matched game . |
| 15 | Half an hour later he came back , his yellow teeth flashing in a confident cockney smile . |
| 16 | The acquisition of the Longman Corpus enabled investigations to proceed in a more rigorous fashion using much increased test data sample sizes . |
| 17 | The whole hill had the appearance almost of a skull , the apertures like teeth exposed in a grin and black with decay . |
| 18 | UK corporates might find it attractive at times to borrow in a currency other than sterling ( most commonly US dollars ) through such a programme and fully hedge the proceeds into sterling , hence creating a synthetic SCP . |
| 19 | I remember him telling me how in those days , things being more primitive , they often used a few cycle lamps arranged in an inverted L-shape with the crossbar at the upwind end . ’ |
| 20 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 21 | But weather patterns change in a haphazard , inconsistent way . |
| 22 | This is a self service concept to allow those who do not want to leave their fresh air pursuits to indulge in a light health-conscious choice of foods . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) Branchial openings arranged in a slanting line ( suggesting a separation of pharynx from oesophagus as in modern lampreys ) . |
| 24 | Luciani is one of more than 100 prisoners highlighted in a report by the pressure group , Liberty , as being possible victims of miscarriages of injustice . |
| 25 | Through contacts formed in a previous period of field work with poor urban women of this category , the investigator is proposing to hold long open-ended discussions with a sample of older women and their daughters on the subject of AIDS : e.g. their knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease , the method of its transmission and finally their assessment of their own risk of contracting the disease . |
| 26 | For volatile samples it is sometimes helpful to use matrix-isolation techniques [ Section 5.16.3 ] , as the molecules trapped in an inert matrix are generally unable to rotate freely , and give simple sharp vibration bands of well-defined frequency . |
| 27 | Then , larger than life , so vivid she might almost have reached out and touched herself , there she was , transformed , hardly recognizable : teeth bared in a grin of manic glee , her eyes white-hot and blazing like a berserk android in a film she had seen once . |
| 28 | She looked like a hell cat , sloe eyes glittering , teeth bared in a terrifying rictus grin , body rigid with loathing . |
| 29 | Dead rats , floating in the brown swill of beer with teeth bared in a last deathly snarl . |
| 30 | She slowed , reading what he had written , then stopped , her teeth bared in a smile . |