Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE only breeding pair of Golden Eagles in England have successfully reared a chick in Haweswater , Cumbria . |
| 2 | He had a large kidneyectomy for a slow-growing tumour in March last year and has since developed a secondary in his right lung . |
| 3 | This would give greater predictability to litigants and presumably effect a reduction in the amount of judicial time devoted to these matters . |
| 4 | For that investment the member gets a stake in the club and in the freehold , and thereby has a say in how it is run . |
| 5 | Battles are rare , and mostly involve a stallion in his prime making a determined effort to wrest the harem from an older stallion . |
| 6 | He went on to obtain a commission in the Regular Army , which involved sitting the final examination at Sandhurst , although he had not been a cadet . |
| 7 | Those without work are excluded from building up savings , whether in the form of a house or an adequate pension , and thereby gaining a stake in society . |
| 8 | Dr Alan Solomon graduated in Mathematics from Cambridge University , and has since pursued a career in Defence , Textiles , Oil and the Stock Exchange . |
| 9 | The novel Lust for Life by Irving Stone , published in 1934 , is the most famous of these productions , popularising a vein of interpretation established early in the century by some of Van Gogh 's first advocates , such as the taste-maker Julius Meier-Graefe , who defended Van Gogh in 1906 , and went on to write a book in his praise in 1921 called Vincent . |
| 10 | In a meeting apparently heralding a breakthrough in relations , high-level delegations from the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Zulu-based Inkatha Movement met in Durban on Jan. 29 . |
| 11 | The crucial issue is whether this merely represents a transfer in wealth from the acquirer , or whether there is an increase in wealth overall . |
| 12 | It only became a god in Hellenistic times when it was worshipped under the name ‘ Aion ’ , but that signified a sacred , eternal time which was very different from ordinary time , chronos . |
| 13 | Of course they can only make a living in this way if they are faster than other dealers in the market . |
| 14 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 15 | It is not enough to agree a deal in principle with a receiver , the purchaser will have to deliver the cash before anyone else in order to win . |
| 16 | Alerted by an ominous creaking sound coming from near his feet , Dauntless glanced down to see a trapdoor in the floor being opened from beneath . |
| 17 | But anyway , my Dawn , Dawn 's mother went down to see a show in London not so long ago , stayed er , stayed two nights in a hotel , it was o it was only like ninety odd pound for them . |
| 18 | Parton ( 1979 , 1981 ) and Packman ( 1981 ) both highlight an apparently increasing tendency for intervention in family life to be based on compulsion rather than informal permission , and attribute this either to defensive practice in the context of possible exposure ( Packman ) , or to the fact that social work practice is merely reflecting a change in the moral climate of society towards greater social control of deviance ( Parton ) . |
| 19 | Purity campaigns not only registered a shift in modalities of control , but a change in the personnel responsible for sexual regulation and in the sites from which power was exercised . |
| 20 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 21 | So they said , ‘ Herr von Karajan apparently has a computer in his brain ! ’ |
| 22 | The USSR apparently has a lead in radar equipment able to see through clouds . |
| 23 | ‘ I bent down to smell a brose in my garden , ’ replied the woman . |
| 24 | Having set up a presence in the south east with representative offices in Japan , P&W felt confident enough to establish a bridgehead in Glasgow and it opened an office in the city last January . |
| 25 | Alan was lucky enough to discover a scorpion in the fruit bowl . |
| 26 | Er it obviously has a lot in common with other inner city areas . |
| 27 | Occasionally one would disappear in the direction of the High Street , casting about for an interesting sniff , hoping perhaps to discover a fox in the vicinity of the cut-price chemist . |
| 28 | Toyota you can only buy a car in Toyota through network marketing |
| 29 | In the popular tongue it was used only to indicate a point in time . |
| 30 | The Christian faith is a view of history ; a process which not only has a beginning in creation but an end signalled by the personal return of Jesus Christ and the establishment of ‘ a new heavens and a new earth ’ . |