Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case the opinion was expressed that the foreign affairs powers of the President are extra-constitutional , resting upon the international sovereign status of the United States and the necessity for that country to be able to perform effectively in foreign relations , uninhibited by domestic legal restrictions . |
| 2 | She was small and dark , with rimless spectacles , and became matronly in middle age . |
| 3 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 4 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 5 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 6 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 7 | He then goes on in separate chapters to cover sexism , racism , ageism and disablism . |
| 8 | We are all curious to know what really goes on in other families and all equally determined to preserve the privacy of our own family life . |
| 9 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 10 | What I have proposed in the foregoing pages is a conscious surrender to the culturalists of much of the activity that now goes on in English degrees , in order to retain something more coherent , defensible , and inherently valuable . |
| 11 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 12 | Mexico apart ( and for domestic reasons no American government can ignore Mexico ) , the administration is not much bothered with what goes on in Latin America . |
| 13 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
| 14 | Eat slowly in convivial surroundings and , above all , enjoy your food . |
| 15 | Candles and oil-lamps gleamed weakly in distant windows and a torch shone briefly down by the ancient Cross as a link-boy led a gentleman home after a night 's revelry , by the shortest and hopefully , safest route . |
| 16 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 17 | Small children , watching the falling snowflakes from inside the hut , began to cry and reach for their parents as the snow-slope parted and two strange , spindly creatures clad only in red thermals and inner boots emerged like primordial reptilian embryos . |
| 18 | He was clad only in thin cotton pyjama bottoms . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The congregation of a 60-year-old wooden church in Darlington have been warned not to go inside in bad weather . |
| 21 | Only in areas remote from this authority , as in isolated mining settlements , or where the state was itself weak , as in the United States , could bourgeois masters exercise that sort of direct rule , whether by command over the local forces of public authority , by private armies of Pinkerton men , or by banding together in armed groups of ‘ vigilantes ’ to maintain ‘ order ’ . |
| 22 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |
| 23 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 24 | During the years of South Africa 's isolation from the world community and its suspension from the ILO , hybrid labour legislation was passed by the South African parliament which may or may not conform to the minimum standards for the protection of workers laid down in various ILO conventions . |
| 25 | Our understanding of the vertical ( as opposed to the horizontal ) movements of the lithosphere during continental rupture is largely derived from the interpretation of the sediments laid down in passive margin basins . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what action he takes to enforce procedures laid down in national health service circular No. 1975 ( GEN ) 46 . |
| 27 | Cuttings were made to ease the original gradients , causeways laid down in difficult places , and the roadway widened . |
| 28 | Ace glanced around , noting the clay bottles and pots sealed with wax that were stacked together in rickety cupboards . |
| 29 | Its report shows that some 26m tonnes of plastics ( excluding textile fibres ) are consumed annually in Western Europe , with the EC accounting for about 23m tonnes . |
| 30 | A new sense of harmony is unlikely to be developed if bored parents have to wait endlessly in long queues to see teachers . |