Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 2 | A detailed study of 9 communes in the Monts Domes area of the Puy-de-Dome department ( all LFA ) showed that the utilised agricultural land increased from 9,369 hectares it , 1970 to 10 , 169 hectares in 1980 ( an 8% rise ) , probably for the same reasons given above in this mountainous part of the Auvergne . |
| 3 | Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead . |
| 4 | The opportunity arose late in 1988 when the MoD had an urgent need for an RB211 engine — of a specific configuration — for fitting to an RAF transport . |
| 5 | Gordon Taylor points out in last Friday 's Echo Soccer in Crisis investigation that not all players enjoy rich rewards from the game when their careers can be cut short . |
| 6 | The government on Sept. 24 granted foreign institutions permission to invest directly in all stock market operations . |
| 7 | in conformity with any rules agreed unanimously in that respect by the Parties , or |
| 8 | When he died they found seven thousand pounds in notes hidden away in different places all over his cottage … ’ |
| 9 | A misguided attempt to bombard the Castle with rocks conveyed by magically controlled Wyverns failed spectacularly in 1513 , while demonstrating the accuracy and numbers of the undead archers within the towers of the Castle . |
| 10 | The bus rocked and skidded to a halt ; a horse-drawn delivery van close behind them swerved violently — the horse reared , its front hooves lashing wildly in thin air — someone screamed , the frightened horse whinnied and plunged and Mabel , struck down by flying hooves , lay motionless upon the roadway as one wheel of the van ran over her breast , and her life 's blood dribbled away into the gutter . |
| 11 | Peak numbers are fairly consistently present in January and early February ; numbers in December are often quite low , and the birds disperse rapidly in late February and March . |
| 12 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 13 | If people accept that they are governed not only by explicit rules laid down in past political decisions but by whatever other standards flow from the principles these decisions assume , then the set of recognized public standards can expand and contract organically , as people become more sophisticated in sensing and exploring what these principles require in new circumstances , without the need for detailed legislation or adjudication on each possible point of conflict . |
| 14 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 15 | The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them . |
| 16 | Entities zoom around in simulated three-dimensional space , colliding with each other , shooting each other down , swallowing each other amid revolting noises . |
| 17 | After prosecutors presented evidence that he had money stashed away in overseas accounts , it was ruled that Mr Dixon must stay in jail until the judge sentences him in February . |
| 18 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 19 | In fact there are two different meanings hidden away in this phrase : the state can be relatively autonomous of the capitalist class , which is appropriate for an organizational model of the state ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 20 | The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 . |
| 21 | The difficulty lies principally in that , whereas most scientists and engineers operate in a three-dimensional world capable of reasonable representation on a television screen , the multivariate nature of data analysis goes far beyond this into a space of m dimensions conceivable to the human mind only as an abstraction . |
| 22 | It is quite possible to differentiate between qualitative similarity and numerical difference with regard to items in a phenomenological space ; for example , I have no difficulty in distinguishing between two qualitatively similar objects appearing simultaneously in two different regions of my visual field . |
| 23 | This is a very high number of cases appearing only in local newspapers , especially because of the imbalance of our sample towards the national papers . |
| 24 | The pattern of these Hours entered deeply in various ways into the structure of deliberately composed meditations on the Passion and enabled them to imply a greater meaning than they explicitly formulate . |
| 25 | 3 A corporate tie-up between privileged interests and state may be threatened by the emergence onto the political agenda of new groups and new " citizen " concerns that fall outside of the incorporation that bears on groups caught up in economic issues and the division of labour . |
| 26 | Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins . |
| 27 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 28 | A gang walking around in public brandishing bicycle chains could have been convicted . |
| 29 | Piero Fornasetti lives on in these pure silk ties |
| 30 | The remaining six groups clustered approximately in chronological order . |