Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 3 | Beside her Rune looked what he was , she thought — purposeful and determined , master of his own destiny , the skin of his golden jaw so smooth that he must have shaved again before coming to pick her up , his hair gleaming in molten strands as the sunlight played on it . |
| 4 | What the trust offered was the opportunity to invest in interest-bearing mortgages . |
| 5 | Similarly , the increasing use of urban development corporations ind Whitehall grants in inner cities would further undermine local authorities . |
| 6 | I can see the grime under my toenails , I can feel my hair hanging in greasy clumps . |
| 7 | The 32-year-old helped Sheffield stay in big time soccer but Dave Bassett would n't stand in his way if a move back South came up . |
| 8 | Erm now the th H S C is saying that erm it should n't have gone skin to skin and they 've stopped skin to skin in other headings . |
| 9 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 10 | But the big record companies say they need elaborate long term contracts to invest in new talent . |
| 11 | The platelet aggregates formed in this way are fixed with formol . |
| 12 | It is imperative that we emphasise the uniqueness of the Catholic school which understands itself as a faith community in which the beliefs and values communicated in Religious Education inspire and unify every aspect of the school life . |
| 13 | She stopped immediately , her heart thumping in sudden fright as she saw that the chapel was occupied . |
| 14 | — Manjiku 's got a snout like a crocodile , Manjiku 's got pointed green teeth arranged in double rows , and a mane of spikes like sea urchins , and a forked tail with razor edges he uses to slice up his food . |
| 15 | If , as Marxism postulates , the final catastrophe of Capitalism is to be triggered by a crisis of under-utilisation of capacity and of over-supply of goods , then the General Theory provides the remedy : a positive investment policy by the State and deficit financing in certain circumstances . |
| 16 | But none of the rules given in traditional grammars can explain the use of the definite article in an opening such as : |
| 17 | All these cases , and similar cases heard in other jurisdictions , were reviewed in the landmark case Caparo Industries plc v Dickman ( 1990 ) 2 AC 605 HL which has caused so much controversy . |
| 18 | The discussion thus far has focused on the reasons given in legal doctrine to support the legal model 's centralization of the power to manage the company in the hands of the directors of the company . |
| 19 | ‘ The reasons given in this case contain a comprehensive analysis of all the relevant cases and literature . |
| 20 | I agree with both the judgments that have been given and with the reasons given in those judgments for allowing this appeal . |
| 21 | They tended to locate component supplies in lower-income countries to create two-way trade with Japan ; they did not replace the trade in finished products ( Kojima , 1978 ) .6 The Japanese moves can not be explained in the defensive product-cycle terms ; they were offensive in the sense that they were designed to establish positions that permitted new world-scale advantages to be created by subsequent expansion . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never seen anything like that in my life , ’ Mitch announced in absolute awe . |
| 23 | A rise in wage levels , Barton argued , encouraged employers to invest in labour-saving technology . |
| 24 | Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court . |
| 25 | In an introductory discussion of the kind undertaken in this chapter it is simply not possible to discuss comprehensively the various forms , spheres and agencies of racism that operate in British society , for example , those deriving from the state 's implementation of increasingly tighter immigration controls as well as nationality legislation , or We activities of some sections of the police ( Dummett , 1982 ; Gordon and Klug , 1985 ; Benyon , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 27 | In September 1989 a report by Vientiane home service stated that after the promulgation in July 1989 of a law on foreign investment , " hundreds of businesspeople " had applied for permission to invest in different sectors of the economy . |
| 28 | Trent rode in first gear , headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed . |
| 29 | Dr Spufford 's book has successfully demonstrated that the timing of this change depended in large measure upon the farming system and the social and economic structure of the communities that were affected . |
| 30 | Publication in the Chinese language of anecdotal cases treated in this way has not helped in disseminating knowledge about the use of traditional Chinese herbal medicines . |