Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , sensitivity to water movements is most developed in underwater vertebrates . |
| 2 | Drawing is rarely taught in primary schools . |
| 3 | My relationship with Crossman eventually became in some ways a comic one . |
| 4 | But the family say they 'd rather stay in temporary digs . |
| 5 | They were rarely situated in poorer districts , required a membership fee of up to £1 , which the poorest could not afford , and did not allow ‘ tick ’ or sales bacon , etc. ) which the poor were forced by low or uncertain incomes to buy . |
| 6 | Cameras are secretly located in public places and helicopters monitor selected areas with video equipment , day and night ( ibid . ) . |
| 7 | Easton also produce ECS tube , an all-carbon shaft with the fibres spirally wound in opposite directions . |
| 8 | All of this ignores the nurses who have been unofficially deputising in medical roles for many years , according to senior nurse advocates . |
| 9 | When they were amongst themselves they used nicknames , but as these rarely appear in official documents the historian has a difficult task to disentangle one member from another . |
| 10 | A considerable number of Remploy workers do move on to work in open conditions but many remain semi-permanently in the sheltered environment . |
| 11 | This latter point is not intended to imply that scientists have suddenly ‘ got God ’ ; rather that they have generally refused to admit that , if some event is widely reported in religious writings , there is a very good chance that it did in fact happen . |
| 12 | The interview with the Italian magazine Gente , widely reported in British newspapers , was ‘ complete fabrication ’ , she said . |
| 13 | The maker hand-cuts the kerfing ( the triangular-section strip around the inside edge that increases the gluing area of the sides for securing the front and back ) so that the saw-cuts are widely spaced in some areas and closely spaced around the tight curves of the cutaway . |
| 14 | On 3 June last the painting was badly slashed in five places when it fell from the wall and caught on the scaffolding used by the restorers ( see The Art Newspaper No.20 , July-September 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 15 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 16 | Several altars have been recovered , mostly re-used in secondary contexts , as well as two busts of Minerva , a pipeclay Venus and various miniature votive or ritual finds , including several bronze animals and an axe . |
| 17 | Fish , sea birds , and small cetaceans have long gathered in large numbers to feed in the deep waters off the Peruvian coast , which are among the richest in the world . |
| 18 | Within the National Parks , all land use surveys have shown how their landscapes have been much altered in recent years by the advance of agriculture and forestry ( Leonard , 1980 ) although as Table 8.2 shows , both National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) still contain very few urban areas ( Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | The patronage of royal saintly cults implied dynastic predispositions and one cult highly favoured in Wilfridian circles and at Hexham in particular was Oswald 's . |
| 20 | President Bush , under a drizzle of criticism , was finding his nominee for the CIA directorship , Robert M Gates , was so implicated in earlier bits of skulduggery as to be a tough item to sell . |
| 21 | There is a demand for these services , and these facilities are possibly less developed in rural areas . |
| 22 | There was the born-rich drug addict and his anguished girl-friend , identically clad in black tights , boots and jackets . |
| 23 | It has always been so greatly prized in Indian homes where it is served particularly on special occasions and whenever possible . |
| 24 | They served to mark conspicuous waste in the form of offerings and sacrifices and at the same time as objects of conspicuous consumption on the part of individuals highly placed in social hierarchies . |
| 25 | It is also claimed that the molar cusp arrangement is related to cranial flexion , with the protocone being posteriorly placed relative to paracone in klinorhynchous skulls and transversely placed in airorhynchous forms , but this is the reverse of the usually accepted polarity for cusp orientation , with the primitive trigon having the protocone posteriorly placed . |
| 26 | Another stone much favoured in early times was turquoise , an opaque phosphate of aluminium which derives its sky-blue colour from traces of copper . |
| 27 | Although 2/4 remained on the island for several more weeks , they were constantly embroiled in unsatisfactory skirmishes with natives supported by Japanese machine-gun teams . |
| 28 | Pilots who have only flown in light winds will be dangerously incompetent in rough weather , particularly if they are also out of current flying practice . |
| 29 | As elsewhere , the gaol I visited appointed ‘ convict overseers ’ to assist the staff , a system much criticized in recent years . |
| 30 | The arrangement of the exhibits was crucial : when W. C. Williamson went to Manchester to take charge of the museum there in 1836 , he found that the stuffed animals were merely arranged in ornamental groups ; he soon reorganized them systematically . |