Example sentences of "[vb base] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when they sleep in a separate room . |
| 2 | ‘ Sleep in a warm bed while you can , because you 'll be in the gutter soon enough , the lot of you . ’ |
| 3 | Place thumbnail-size pieces on a baking tray and cook in a hot oven until golden brown . |
| 4 | Cook in a preheated oven , Gas Mark 5 ( 190C/375F ) , for 1 hour 30 minutes . |
| 5 | Add all the other ingredients , cover the casserole and cook in a preheated oven , Gas Mark 6 ( 200C/400F ) , for 1 hour 30 minutes . |
| 6 | Put this on a baking sheet and cook in a preheated oven 180 °C ( 350 °F ) gas mark 4 for 12–15 minutes until golden and then cool . |
| 7 | Leave until it rises to three times its initial volume , then cook in a preheated oven ( 220C/425F/Gas 7 ) for 30 mins . |
| 8 | Pour the sauce over the fish , cover with aluminium foil and cook in a preheated 200°C/400°F/Gas 6 oven for about 20 minutes , or until the cod is tender . |
| 9 | The ancient winged insects — cockroaches , cicadas , crickets and dragonflies — also grow in a similar way , their early forms closely resembling the adults except that they lack wings . |
| 10 | Professor Laura , writing in the latest edition of Nature and Health , said bacteria , fungi , amoebae , worms and mites grow in a brown slime found in contaminated air-conditioning plants and are circulated and inhaled . |
| 11 | And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars . |
| 12 | Aggression and violence can escalate when jealousy and envy grow in a competitive atmosphere . |
| 13 | Changes to other genes may be implicated in metastasis , which depends upon the ability of a tumour cell to invade blood vessels , survive the host immune response , and grow in a foreign microenvironment . |
| 14 | She may be joking , but me , I just growl in a choked voice ‘ Hey , why do n't you cut us some of that cake ? ’ |
| 15 | The convenience of major shopping developments and the wide range of goods and produce they provide in a concentrated location , must be judged in future against wider environmental and social criteria . |
| 16 | Well , he likes , instead of sticking to Paul and the Ephesians all the time , to , you know , slip in a wee snippet of Shakespeare or Tennyson or mibbe even Wordsworth now and again , as a Text . |
| 17 | The whole station was like some vast and awkward school dance , where need and constraint mingle in a heady , violent ferment of suppression . |
| 18 | The localised heat draws oils from the skin and blood to the surface ; over the years permanently dilated blood vessels appear and brown pigmentation due to leaks from those vessels appear in a reticular pattern on the shins of old people . |
| 19 | The sacral horns appear in a great many images of religious significance . |
| 20 | The kiss and branding also appear in a fifteenth-century Italian novella . |
| 21 | YOUR favourite Mr. Men characters now appear in a new show , Mr. Men in Happyland . |
| 22 | Significantly , the statutorily required information compilations emanating from these bodies for the most part appear in a defined physical format : |
| 23 | The incidence rate measures how many new cases of a disease appear in a given period , whereas the prevalence rate measures how many cases in total exist , either at one point of time ( the point prevalence rate ) , or in a fixed period ( the period prevalence rate ) . |
| 24 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 25 | Like brownies , they prefer to work during daylight hours and snooze in a warm spot by the hearth during the day , only hoping for a bowl of milk as payment for their labours . |
| 26 | It was a bit clichéd , but what did people expect in a boring hotel like this in a boring town like this in a boring country like this ? |
| 27 | Yet they 've got their own individual consulting suites , a colposcopy suite and an enormous waiting area , everything you want in a modern clinic , and yet they 're still moaning … |
| 28 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 29 | Giving milk seems funny ; it makes me laugh and then cry in a stoned , sleepy , dribbly way . |
| 30 | Waugh was a good writer ruined , Orwell concluded , by superstition : ‘ about as good a novelist as one can be … while holding untenable opinions ’ , and the death of Lord Marchmain at the end of Brideshead predictably repelled him , when an apparently unregenerate peer silently makes the sign of the cross and the two lovers , though divorced , realise in a religious ecstasy that they can never marry . |