Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 2 | The British Technology Group , formed by a merger of the National Enterprise Board and the National Research Development Council , has invested in in small firms in electronics . |
| 3 | They may come in in little pieces , but if the pieces can be stuck together the results usually show inside of their first forty-eight hours . |
| 4 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 5 | But it has kept its head down in recent years because of a huge $4 billion corporate debt and a slide in sales . |
| 6 | I mean , ranking of the countries descending as business in the way it changes , and Japan comes first , Germany 's gone down in recent years because of that trouble , but America has consistently been the major investor in this country . |
| 7 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 8 | Cohesion through antonymy ( " oppositeness ' ) is also created in the text through the juxtaposition of the verb phrases 'stand up " and 'sitting down in adjacent sentences ( h ) and ( b ) . |
| 9 | Over 100 homes of Aristide supporters were burnt down in rural areas . |
| 10 | It would not be sensible for anyone other than staff with specific responsibilities in this area to get weighed down in mechanical details such as costing the specific details of any aspect of the school 's plans . |
| 11 | Any use of nuclear weapons which resulted in significant fall-out coming down in neutral countries , or which in other ways violated neutral territory , would clearly fall foul of this provision . |
| 12 | CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms . |
| 13 | That constancy of composition relationship breaks down in enclosed seas and bays for example where er addition processes , I E er salts which have been eroded from river water , may alter the composition . |
| 14 | Above us , a massive chandelier in sugar-doll pink cascades down in frilly waves . |
| 15 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 16 | Often , as the night drew on , a number of people were seen to lie down in odd places , both in Partisan Street and on the Embankment . |
| 17 | They will be ready for November , before the government grant settlement arrives , and work will begin in the finance officer 's department paring them down in bilateral discussions . |
| 18 | A similar paper on radio- telescopes is now bogged down in legal proceedings , initiated by members of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 19 | Secondly , the paper on radio astronomy is not ‘ now bogged down in legal proceedings ’ . |
| 20 | In contact with other women the separatist becomes more and more impatient with women who to them seem stubbornly bogged down in male values . |
| 21 | Some soared up and down in gentle arcs : some shot horizontally : some rocketed high into the sky , then turned about and suddenly plummeted . |
| 22 | During the implementation stages , it is all too easy for teachers , including the head , struggling to maintain the ‘ helicopter view ’ necessary for good leadership , to become bogged down in mid-term crises and the drudgery of routine paperwork . |
| 23 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
| 24 | The relief will be available instead of the 25% writing-down allowance available for the year in which the expenditure is incurred , with the balance being written down in future years at 25% . |
| 25 | ‘ If a department has an internal review it can get bogged down in internal considerations . |
| 26 | He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves . |
| 27 | Teesmouth lifeboat towed into safe anchorage a fishing boat and a pleasure cruiser which broke down in separate incidents , four and six miles out to sea from South Gare headland , Redcar . |
| 28 | They flicked ash from their cigarettes into the empty wine-glasses and shouted each other down in vain attempts to be witty . |
| 29 | ‘ There will obviously be some slimming down in certain areas , which is regrettable but necessary . ’ |
| 30 | the mental processes involved in object recognition ; 2 how object recognition and naming develops in children ; and 3. how it can break down in certain cases of brain damage . |