Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women not only carried all the possessions they did n't want to risk losing in large baskets on their heads but also had to control their children and often had to sling them over their backs as they were too weak to walk themselves . |
| 2 | In swimming — the single most popular physical recreation after walking — the importance of teaching children to swim has drawn in some women and competitive swimming is a very important sport for girls . |
| 3 | They say it 's intended to encourage drinking in hot weather , just as the Government is launching a new campaign against summer drink driving . |
| 4 | That 's what I want to see happen in this country and I want to do it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If people want to go swimming in early evening or early morning we would advise them to go to a swimming pool , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 6 | The design used got started in 1988 and took five years to get a full multi-processor in such a small package . |
| 7 | With or without Horkheimer , with or without the Frankfurt School , the name of Adorno has come to stand in cultural criticism for an immediately knowable , instantly impeachable thought-crime : ‘ cultural pessimism ’ . |
| 8 | Everyone involved in the filming has enjoyed working in such idyllic surroundings . |
| 9 | The report also notes that owing to serious technical difficulties a new assembly building has only just been commissioned , which means that nuclear-warhead production has had to continue in old buildings which should have been closed down . |
| 10 | The Department of the Environment has calculated that , by the year 2001 , two million extra houses will have to be built , 570,000 of those in the southeast , which has had to fit in half the population growth of England and Wales . |
| 11 | What other Regime would have resisted the very serious situations which the Nation has had to confront in these thirteen [ sic ] years ? |
| 12 | They will then see what the man or woman has got left in disposable income each week ; if it 's two pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two pounds , if it 's two hundred pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two hundred pounds to hit the better off in the same proportion as the people at the bottom of the income level . |
| 13 | Turnover has increased since Big Bang , although has tended to fall in 1988 and 1989 relative to 1987 ( but it is still above Big Bang levels ) , and dealing spreads and dealing costs have tended to fall . |
| 14 | But they have done what no American administration has dared do in living memory — set the scene for a proper debate . |
| 15 | When talking with children , it is very important not to convey by trying to be gentle , that the person who has died had in any sense a choice in the matter . |
| 16 | Branch recruitment is of key importance , and it is good to report that Flt Lt C Harris , RHKAAF , has volunteered to help in this area . |
| 17 | Because the history of science has become embroiled in religious polemics , it is important to appreciate that the chauvinism appears not only between religions but within them . |
| 18 | Labour has become trapped in this dynamic . |
| 19 | That concentration has become marked in recent elections . |
| 20 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd is to build a plant in the city of Tonami in northern Japan to produce 16M-bit memory chips : the new factory is expected to start operating in two or three years , and is expected to cost $260m and have capacity of 15,000 a month . |
| 21 | Until now the Bush administration has refused to participate in such a programme . |
| 22 | To cope with the peaks and troughs of road transport operation , the busy haulier will need to consider hiring in outside drivers . |
| 23 | Ideologically sound sisters moved to hard-to-let housing in depressed urban centres and sold their properties to hotels and banks . |
| 24 | In later years , when explaining how he got to Cape Town , John always mentioned having appeared in one or two small parts when the ballet from the Cape came to Johannesburg . |
| 25 | So far , Mr Major has appeared lacking in all three . |
| 26 | The displacement of large numbers of rural dwellers to urban areas has increased overcrowding in urban schools . |
| 27 | The economic issues that he has menioned exist in many other countries and have implications for our position . |
| 28 | The numbers recorded appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 29 | Numbers appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 30 | But substantial beds of green algae are present and appear to have spread in recent years ; they are probably continuing to do so . |