Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1917 Malcolm was given command ( as major-general ) of the 66th division , which was badly mauled in the great German offensive launched by Erich Ludendorff in March 1918 . |
| 2 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 3 | That pattern can also be called liberal , or bourgeois , civilization and it was most developed in the industrialized countries , least in the agrarian east and south . |
| 4 | Their use is most developed in the social insects , where each nest has a unique odour . |
| 5 | Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise . |
| 6 | AS the self-proclaimed party of law and order the Tories appear to have the most to lose in the emotive debate on escalating crime . |
| 7 | The disparities between rich and poor were becoming greater and they were not successfully justified in the official media . |
| 8 | The Edinburgh Conference decisions , particularly on " non-intervention " in Spain , were widely resented in the Labour movement . |
| 9 | The rate of interest is set by the lender and is governed by a host of economic factors , all widely publicised in the national press . |
| 10 | In spite of all Diana 's effort it was badly crushed in the short journey to St Paul 's . |
| 11 | The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world . |
| 12 | In business , an employee near retirement age may well be given a job with a grand title in a department which has little influence in the overall scheme of things . |
| 13 | After examining non-vocational adult education in England and Wales , this report suggested little change in the existing division of responsibility for adult education between LEAs , the university extra-mural departments and voluntary bodies such as the WEA . |
| 14 | The JDA annual report of 1989 saw little change in the Soviet military posture in the Far East and its potential threat to Japan , despite President Gorbachev 's announcement earlier in the year that its forces stationed in the Far East would be cut by 120,000 [ see p. 36642 ] . |
| 15 | Little change in the political map |
| 16 | There was , however , little change in the rigid separation of spheres between the male world of work and the world of home and family experienced by adult women . |
| 17 | It is exclusively produced in tropical countries and mostly consumed in the industrialized North . |
| 18 | The old sadness of the pagan world , so poignantly depicted in the early chapters of Walter Pater 's Marius the Epicurean , had returned . |
| 19 | They will treat the mining industry and the country in a responsible way and will maintain reserves of fuel which the country so badly needs in the medium and long term . |
| 20 | In all of the cells for which lipid compositional asymmetries have been described the negatively charged phospholipids are predominantly located in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane , while the zwitterionic phospholipids , containing the phosphorylcholine headgroup , are found in the outer leaflet . |
| 21 | It may occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract but is predominantly located in the gastro-oesophageal junction and in the stomach along the lesser curvature . |
| 22 | This movement mostly originated in the central regions ( the West Midlands and the South East ) and went to the peripheral regions and to the ‘ outer ’ southern regions . |
| 23 | The novelty of girls on the premises was duly reported in the local press when term started , and quite quickly forgotten , too , as they settled in with very little fuss . |
| 24 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 25 | On the other hand , sections from inflamed oesophageal mucosa contain little EGF in the capillary endothelium resulting in few EGF positive papillae . |
| 26 | But M3 was not successfully targeted in the early Thatcher years . |
| 27 | In the developing nations , which are mostly located in the tropical and subtropical regions , an understanding of how these fundamental environmental processes work is only now being achieved . |
| 28 | David Smith was flown in from England as cover for Gooch , only to have his thumb badly bruised in the one-day international in Barbados and so miss the Bridgetown Test . |
| 29 | It smells and tastes so richly revolting that it is claimed to be the only fruit expressly forbidden in the plush Mandarin Hilton hotel in Singapore . |
| 30 | This was widely reported in the British press . |