Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election of a successor eventually took place in February 1752 , when two candidates presented themselves , the Rev. William Jackson and the Rev. John Chorley Knowles . |
| 2 | They contain endlessly frustrated plantation slaves who are rebellious at assessments and in encounters with professionals , but whose views only reach daylight in fragmented and unvalidated form ; and they contain house slaves who agree with everything that goes on and use ‘ massa 's ’ language and concepts , but who believe something else all the time and are waiting for the day . |
| 3 | He rejects the idea that industry ought to keep workers on simply to fulfil a responsibility for maintaining full employment and he also argues that it will be impossible to increase the tax base enough to create employment in labour-intensive services such as health and education . |
| 4 | Tolkien perhaps found difficulty in explaining to a Jesuit why a ‘ fundamentally ’ Catholic work should cut out references to religion , but the reason is clear : he thought , or hoped , that God had a plan for pre-Catholics too . |
| 5 | Medical opinion is still divided on whether alcoholism is a disease , possibly inherited , or whether an alcoholic only lacks will-power in order to stop drinking . |
| 6 | Newman especially had faith in Whitaker as the ideal weaver of Doctor Who stories . |
| 7 | ‘ Last I heard , the Eiffel Tower had n't collapsed and neither had Rome been sacked by pagans because of money perhaps changing hands in return for playing rugby ’ , he says . |
| 8 | ‘ Melanie merely lost interest in marriage to a busy consultant . |
| 9 | Species that were numerous around the boat and which were caught for a cursory examination only ’ were released again alive , ‘ the operation ’ , Gould maintained , giving ‘ not the least pain to the bird , the point of the hook merely taking hold in the horny and insensible tip of the beak . ’ |
| 10 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 11 | Denis patiently instructed Joey in what to do and he and Michael kept him from talking too loudly . |
| 12 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 13 | The majority held that , whilst an honest but unreasonable mistake would negative liability , such a defence should be put to the jury only where the defendant expressly asserted belief in consent and where there was some evidence beyond his mere assertion . |
| 14 | Like phonemes themselves , words only have significance in relation to other words and as part of a total system of classification . |
| 15 | In 1294–7 , it has been calculated , the laity and clergy together yielded £280,000 in direct taxes to the king . |
| 16 | And send your card in to take part in our great lucky draw to win any unclaimed prizes |
| 17 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 18 | Such considerations constantly determine policy in Greek history . ) |
| 19 | As they are practised in the modern world , high-level teaching and research only make sense in institutions . |
| 20 | Following the rejection of the proposals put forward by the ruling Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) in the referendum held on Dec. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 38670 ] , the Governor , Rafael Hernández Colón , announced his intention not to seek re-election in the gubernatorial elections due to be held in November 1992 ; it was expected that Victoria Múñoz Mendoza would be endorsed as the PPD 's candidate for the governorship . |
| 21 | In other words not see science in isolation from economics , anthropology , politics — all these disciplines should be working together . ’ |
| 22 | A number of traders already use lists in the warehousing , tobacco and oil sectors in their own computerised validation procedures . |
| 23 | Certainly , that movement of mind normally takes place in a bounded framework of study , i.e. the student 's ‘ course ’ . |
| 24 | The fortunes of manned space travel have had a rough ride in the past few years , with the United States finally joining Europe in questioning the costs of such programmes in times of recession . |
| 25 | Not all high amplitude propagated contractions result in an immediate defecation , however , and not all defecations are immediately preceded by high amplitude propagated contractions , because subjects normally store stool in the rectum or distal bowel until defecation is socially convenient . |
| 26 | Ashton , that trends in canal investment generally followed changes in the interest rate have not found favour with more recent historians . |
| 27 | Stouts usually have gravities in the middle 1040s . |
| 28 | Stouts usually have gravities in the middle 1040s . |
| 29 | The offence took its title from the French ‘ effrayer , ’ to frighten , and its essence was that the defendant deliberately took part in fighting or other acts of violence of such a character as to cause alarm to the public . |
| 30 | In Eastern Canada , Scottish first division tourists Jed-Forest quickly found rugby in Ontario is not to be taken lightly . |