Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the Empire knights looked unstoppable as they drove the Goblin wolf riders from the field , but soon both sides became embroiled in hand-to-hand combat where the Knights ' lances were hindered by the close press of warriors . |
| 2 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 3 | Listen you know what I me mean goes in extra time and after that , penalties . |
| 4 | When Aerial Arts , the original manufacturers , ceased trading in serious debt to Cyclone Hovercraft , the Rotax agents , Cyclone Air Sports took over the rights to the Chaser . |
| 5 | A number of dolphins have been taught to communicate in rudimentary English . |
| 6 | We have , on the one hand , the career ecclesiastic , the planner and man of an essentially legalistic mind , and , on the other , the religious enthusiast who takes no thought for the morrow , preferring to trust in divine power and provision . |
| 7 | Since the heyday of the Chicago School , though , there has developed in urban sociology ( and , arguably , in sociology more generally ) a major gulf between these two kinds of understanding . |
| 8 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 9 | However , child benefit has fallen in real value , so there was no justification for reducing the dependency additions . |
| 10 | Whether or not a family moved depended in large measure on the amount of land that they held and on the number of landholding branches . |
| 11 | The list of reforms the Conservative government has undertaken in social security is long : the Fowler reviews ; the removal of young people from the benefits system , and Lilley 's categoric assurance that the youth training guarantee works ; the recent changes to the system of disability benefits ; and changes to the system of child maintenance . |
| 12 | Shell has stated that it ‘ no longer wants to invest in exploratory mining in Brazil . |
| 13 | This belt tightening has left us leaner and fitter to compete in the UK and world markets ; and we will need to remain in good shape to ensure our leading position in the industry and the achievement of reasonable profit growth . |
| 14 | She has succeeded in convincing Rainbow that she alone must somehow atone for the misdeeds of the ancestress who caused poor Anya to wander forever in a twilight world . |
| 15 | But Leonard is not of that cloth ; his nature is obsessive ; what he does , he must do with abandon ; he has to work in total conviction , and dedication . |
| 16 | ‘ The church has come in good faith , and is innocent of any deception . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | So Peter Yeo had to look reassuring and solid and a bit older , while Timothy Hutton could probably have come to work in striped organza without losing a single client . |
| 19 | Eight years have elapsed since Middlesbrough terminated Allison 's last post in League football , since when he has dabbled in non-League management with Fisher , and coached Danes , Swedes and Scots . |
| 20 | The seeds alone , as anyone who has dabbled in Indian cookery knows , are not pungent . |
| 21 | McKibbin is due to enter hospital for an operation on his hand , while Barrett has impressed in pre-season training . |
| 22 | Certainly they are powerful examples of how meditations on the Passion were designed to work in inner experience and they illuminate aspects of the " form " of contemplative living in ways characteristic of Rolle . |
| 23 | They are the authors of the first of five volumes which are expected to appear in quick succession in the next eighteen months and catalogue the complete work of Magritte , his paintings , collages , gouaches , drawings , objects and sculpture , but exclude his designs for advertising posters and other commercial activities . |
| 24 | The range of courses presently available , both advanced and non-advanced , has grown in piecemeal fashion , largely in response to the technological revolution which British agriculture has achieved over the last 30 years . |
| 25 | The term was originally used by Hader and Lindeman to refer to work done in industrial consultation committees where some members of the committee were trained to observe in detail what happened at meetings and were then questioned afterwards by research workers — rather like an intelligence officer might question the crew of an aircraft after a raid . |
| 26 | Up to this point , Sartre 's notion of conflict has operated in direct antithesis to that of Bakhtin : whereas for Sartre , struggles are totalizing , always creating a larger , meaningful and developing whole out of multiplicities , for Bakhtin they are detotalizing , dissolving ‘ previous totalisations ’ . |
| 27 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 28 | If questioned about the response , the attitude-holder can be expected to engage in explicit justification of their stance and to offer criticism of the counter-stance . |
| 29 | ( i ) If your salary grade is below PO1 ( that is below spinal column point 35 within the APT & C grades ) you are permitted to engage in extra mural employment provided it does not have any adverse effect on you performing the normal duties of your post . |
| 30 | The academic book market is already in decline with the erosion of student grants ; the spending on schoolbooks and on libraries has suffered in public spending cutbacks , and consumer cash in the current recession is clearly not plentiful . |