Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SEATO Pact effectively became moribund in the wake of the American military withdrawal from Indo-China in the mid 1970s , and was not reinvigorated . |
| 2 | A vast amount of work remains to be done before the UK can really claim to be properly policing trade in wildlife . |
| 3 | However , the purpose of the article was not to provide a step by step guide to the workings of PCA ( see reference 1 ) , but rather to stimulate interest in the application of the technique . |
| 4 | At least one of these computational models of the lexicon will be linked to an existing computationally realised grammar in order to explore its interaction with the syntax . |
| 5 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 6 | ‘ Literacy in one or more languages , eventually to include literacy in at least one Sierra Leone language and in the official language , English ; |
| 7 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 8 | The consequences of inadequately treated infection in pregnancy — acute pyelonephritis and premature delivery — are serious enough to warrant a cautious therapeutic approach and careful microbiological follow up . |
| 9 | The proposals , based on the premise that " cosmopolitan " laws put French people at a disadvantage , effectively placed immigrants in a separate category of those who could not be joined by their families and should not be eligible for certain benefits , while French people would take priority for jobs and housing . |
| 10 | The client eventually recovered £1,000 in supplementary benefit additional requirements , backdated to 1976 . |
| 11 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 12 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 13 | Regions are also allowed to change the boundaries of protected areas , thereby allowing hunting in areas where it was previously banned . |
| 14 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 15 | Equally , there are dangers in suggesting that all Western economic ills are explained by militant labour or autocratic managers , thereby downplaying differences in the quality and quantity of capital equipment used . |
| 16 | What Havel wittily shows is the kind of Catch-22 situation faced by a dissident in a despotism : whether to cling fiercely to your own moral integrity ( thereby landing others in the shit ) or whether to conform and perpetuate a corrupt system . |
| 17 | Abbey National , of course , is now classified as a bank in the UK , but its wholly owned subsidiary in Jersey , Abbey National ( Overseas ) ( phone 0534 58815 ) , has the benefit of a legally binding guarantee from the parent providing for full repayment of all deposits if the subsidiary should fail . |
| 18 | Digital Equipment Corp is the first US computer major to open a wholly owned subsidiary in Romania , its seventh in the old Eastern Bloc . |
| 19 | In addition to these agents , we have our own wholly owned subsidiary in Sweden , Stoddard Mattor , Stockholm , managed by Anders Falkman and his Sales Manager , Thomas Nilsonne — a successful company operating exclusively in the hotel and contract sector . |
| 20 | One of the real problems was that there were too many badly built , badly designed buildings in the wrong location which the tenants do n't want . ’ |
| 21 | He eventually found solace in religion . |
| 22 | Vaughan eventually found Tyndale in Antwerp and had several talks with him in a meadow outside the city walls . |
| 23 | The important question is whether town and country planning has successfully constrained development in rural areas . |
| 24 | As with the NHS , the public overwhelmingly want care in the community to be a matter of pride not parsimony , and will support adequate funding to make this possible . |
| 25 | Three years after publisher Robert Maxwell sacked twenty one journalists from the Pergamon Press company , it 's been announced tonight that they 're to be paid thousands of pounds in compensation.The deal brings to an end one of the longest runing disputes in British trade union history . |
| 26 | The six-member jury ( composed of four women and two men ) deliberated for 77 minutes before concluding in Smith 's favour and thereby ending one of the most widely reported trials in US history . |
| 27 | He may perhaps speculate with me on whether the widely reported drop in standards of literacy among children of school-leaving age can in any way be connected with the massive dispersals and changes which have taken place in these educational libraries . |
| 28 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 29 | The fate of the common person who refused to conform and voted ‘ No ’ in the bogus elections beloved of Communist rulers rarely attracted attention in the West . |
| 30 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |