Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The historic town of Great Malvern , 7 miles away , came into prominence through its spa waters in the 18th and 19th centuries , although its origins as several disconnected villages are much earlier ; indeed its beautiful priory church was completed by craftsmen in 1460 . |
2 | • Calories , cholesterol , fats , protein and sodium counts in a single serving shown for every recipe . |
3 | Figure 3 shows a comparison of pitted erythrocyte counts in the current drinkers compared with the ‘ reformed ’ group . |
4 | But really it is the crew as a whole which counts in the long run on a job like this . |
5 | SCOTTISH Tories , awaiting their election counts in the early hours of Friday , were prepared for the worst . |
6 | It is therefore unlikely that microsporidia were responsible for the symptoms in a relevant proportion of the patients reported here , especially thse at early disease stages and those without detectable secondary infection , as intestinlam microsporidiosis is apparently associated with low CD4 counts in the peripheral blood . |
7 | The Spennymoor super heavyweight forced the referee to step in after Hopper had pounded the more fancied Craig Parsons of Brighton into three standing counts in the second round . |
8 | It is not the least of Russia 's current ironies that , just as the West is re-assessing the value of a market-led economy , belatedly suspecting it to be the partial cause rather than wholesale cure of economic ills , the arch reformers are adamant that salvation lies in a western role model . |
9 | The site lies in a narrow valley on a severe slope and the courtyards and ranges of buildings have been carefully terraced to provide level areas . |
10 | The answer lies in a thermodynamic state function known as free energy or the Gibbs function , G. This function is related to equation ( 21 ) which , expressed in general terms , is If we multiply this equation through by — T we obtain |
11 | It is not easy to identify , because it lies in a rich area and there are no convenient guides to it . |
12 | When speeding along it is folded and lies in a deep groove along the back . |
13 | Marston Magna lies in a flat lias clay area of south Somerset , and its name suggests marshy surroundings . |
14 | Either way , the best hope of predicting such events , and mitigating their impact , lies in a better understanding of the southern oscillation and its role in the circulation of the southern hemisphere . |
15 | It lies in a shallow valley a couple of clicks north of Redondo . |
16 | The detailed theory is complicated , but the use of the depolarization ratio lies in a simple rule : totally symmetric vibrations give rise to polarized Raman bands ; vibrations that are not totally symmetric give rise to depolarized bands . |
17 | The answer , of course , lies in a general prejudice against carnivores , compounded by a righteous antagonism — not always unjustified — towards introduced species . |
18 | His black hair lies in a hundred casual curls . |
19 | Catherine lies in a rusty bed on top of a filthy mattress . |
20 | Lake Pátzcuaro lies in a small ( 927km 2 ) , closed intermontane basin in the volcanic highlands of Michoacán ( Fig. 1 ) . |
21 | In these nuclei the body can readily be distinguished from the chromocentres since it is appreciably darker staining and lies in a small " notch " in the nuclear membrane . |
22 | The wreckage of the gantry now lies in a dry dock . |
23 | Pen-y-Dyffryn Hall ( the name is Welsh for ‘ The Head of the Valley ’ ) , lies in a remote hamlet in a fairy-tale landscape of verdant valleys , gently rolling hills , and pastures dotted with white sheep . |
24 | Peć is still the spiritual centre of the Serbian Orthodox Church , but it lies in a remote corner of Yugoslavia , close to the Albanian border , in the Albanian-speaking province of Kosovo . |
25 | The market town of Ottery St Mary lies in a broad Devon valley eleven miles from the city of Exeter . |
26 | The real power of computerised data lies in a deeper , more sophisticated analysis of the information which already exists . |
27 | The secret of GORE-TEX fabrics lies in a unique protective membrane with around 9 billion pores per square inch ; too small for water to pass through , but large enough to allow perspiration vapour to escape . |
28 | To my mind the only possibility of solving this problem lies in a large European prospective randomised screening study comparing screening with no screening and using mortality from prostatic cancer as its major end point . |
29 | Thus the chief safeguard against brittle failure lies in a high work of fracture . |
30 | Singleton believes the answer lies in a different style of policing . |