Example sentences of "[vb base] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Real books are the books children encounter in story-telling sessions at home , in the library or play-group , and on children 's television — books that become part of the reader 's self , books to be remembered and revisited with anticipated pleasure . |
| 2 | She said oh we always sleep in separate beds here . |
| 3 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 4 | By the same token , however , they may now be tacking fitfully back to growth while Germany and , to a lesser extent Japan , linger in relative doldrums . |
| 5 | Lady 's Smock : These flowers are made up of four pink or lilac veined petals and grow in small clusters . |
| 6 | We will be watching this one grow and grow in future issues . |
| 7 | The yellowish horns are of medium length , growing outwards and then curving slightly forwards in the bull , and finer and well spread in the cow , whose horns grow in various directions but preferably level and turning upwards at the tips , which are black . |
| 8 | These will give the effect of the dense reeds which grow in many areas of East Asia . |
| 9 | Infrequent services will be used even less , and , as levels of car ownership grow in rural areas , so demand will continue to fail until the services may eventually be withdrawn . |
| 10 | One sees again and again that such people grow in outside interests . |
| 11 | Trees grow in all shapes and sizes and their timbers look very different . |
| 12 | Capillaries grow in several stages : they sprout from their parent vessels , grow larger , and form hollow and leak-proof vessels . |
| 13 | From the list given in the book , he chooses only herbs which grow in wet places that the fish would naturally have access to . |
| 14 | In the basins , such as this one , which are elevated from one thousand to two thousand feet above the sea , two species of acacia … grow in large numbers . |
| 15 | Allegations and denials about country hideaways , romantic recordings and Princess Di 's secret assignations fly in all directions . |
| 16 | This Order , which is now in force , specifies that various building society resources which appear in annual accounts or accounting records are to be treated as capital resources to be aggregated with reserves for the purpose of the first criterion of prudent management . |
| 17 | The symptoms of psychosis as we know them today appear in all literatures from the earliest times . |
| 18 | Besides the formal courses organized by local education authorities ( LEAs ) , initial training institutions and HMI , one must include public reports upon educational developments ( Warnock , Bullock , Plowden ) , and , published privately , the Gulbenkian Report ( Gulbenkian Foundation , 1982 ) in the arts education domain ; the reports of curriculum development programmes , for example , the Schools Curriculum Development Committee ( SCDC ) Arts in Schools Project bulletins ; digests of research , descriptions of practice and opinion which appear in professional journals ; formal and informal contact with LEA advisory services , including the growing number of teachers seconded for professional development purposes ; inspections ; long and short award bearing courses ; changes in examination syllabuses ( of which the recent introduction of GCSE is an example ) ; even teacher contact with the representatives of educational suppliers . |
| 19 | They appear in vast numbers in the Antarctic Ocean particularly in summer ( they depend for food upon the blooms of phytoplankton ) and it is then that whales like the blue migrate towards the pole to feed . |
| 20 | Similar provisions appear in international conventions which lay down the terms of contracts for international carriage of goods . |
| 21 | Period subdivisions appear in various forms and , apart from a small list of exceptions , are not free-floating . |
| 22 | Those issues appear in various parts of the agreement , and expert determination is applied to those issues by one expert clause . |
| 23 | The policy is the contractual document setting out the terms and conditions of the insurance agreement which appear in various paragraphs which are usually called clauses . |
| 24 | Shadowgraphs appear in various places in this book , including Figs. 14.2 , 14.5 , 18.10 and 22.3 to 22.8 . |
| 25 | This is useful when telling a story , particularly as prostitutes appear in many ballets . |
| 26 | Classifications of institutions appear in many places . |
| 27 | It is not the certificate as such that we wish to include but the underlying deposit , which is a time deposit just like all other time deposits that appear in such definitions . |
| 28 | As a result , when shacks disappear , others appear in other parts of the city . |
| 29 | Abstract paintings based on the notion of landscape appear in two shows : Julia Fish 's small works at Amy Lipton ( 20 May–23 June ) and the British artist John Virtue 's black and white canvases at Louver ( until 23 May ) . |
| 30 | Reasonableness Many of the " exclusion clauses " which appear in standard terms of business will be subject to a test of reasonableness . |