Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngest of a large family , who lived right in the book-printing district with Morrison & Gibb , Clark 's and Neill 's within walking distance , she had two elder sisters already in the trade . |
| 2 | Details of symptoms and endoscopic aspects of the stomach in this type of lymphoma , however , remain scarce in the published reports , and the best treatment has not yet been established . |
| 3 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 4 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 5 | Consequently , it was necessary to introduce more daylight into the broader interiors and this became possible in the 1890s with the use of reinforced-concrete floors and steel girders . |
| 6 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 7 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 8 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 9 | They were haunted by the fear of another Dunkirk and were anxious to remain strong in the Middle East . |
| 10 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 11 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 12 | NASA and the then Science Research Council , in the UK soon became interested in the prospective infrared mission , and in October 1977 the three countries signed contracts formalising the collaboration . |
| 13 | Now erm was it through this union activity you became interested in the Labour Party ? |
| 14 | Koops then became interested in the long-standing problem of making paper from materials other than linen and cotton . |
| 15 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 16 | As we made clear in the previous chapter , its definition of temporary workers might well include people whose jobs are available on other than a temporary basis , but who only intend to stay in these jobs for a limited period of time . |
| 17 | Stepping high in the light gravity and brandishing the bag before her , she ploughed her way out into the open air . |
| 18 | Renowned for his involvement in blue-chip developments like London 's Broadgate and the proposed King 's Cross scheme , Stuart Lipton 's Stanhope Properties rode high in the '80s . |
| 19 | He became tangled in the red strands of her hair . |
| 20 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 21 | Rice paddies stretched away endlessly on either side of the ship , and they saw crowds of Annamese in cone-shaped hats of palm leaf already at work , sometimes wading waist-deep in the muddy water . |
| 22 | REGRESSION therapy became popular in the 1960s and early '70s but was later largely discredited , mainly because it is so open to abuse , writes Victoria Macdonald . |
| 23 | As well as toasting , the " dubbing " of poetry to an instrumental background became popular in the late 1970s to early 1980s . |
| 24 | Although it had been conceived originally as a means of reducing illegal practices during the process of distillation , the ‘ Coffey still ’ had obvious commercial advantages , but his efforts to introduce it in Ireland met with little success , and it was in Scotland that it first became popular in the 1840s . |
| 25 | Birthing pools became popular in the mid 80s . |
| 26 | Were the naturalists who studied adaptation doing real ecology before the modern name for the science was coined — or did something recognizably like modern ecology only come into existence when the term ‘ ecology ’ became popular in the 1890s ? |
| 27 | For this reason there has been a great effort , over the years , to develop synthetic resin glues based , more or less , on the plastics which became popular in the 1930s . |
| 28 | At the same time as our mystics were writing in England , this principle became definitive in the Greek Christian empire of Byzantium . |
| 29 | The plot spins endlessly but few people are going to have the stamina to remain interested in the final turns . |
| 30 | All these are very much in the comic-book idiom that dominates the film throughout — including the dialogue — but they require a degree of realism and detail unnecessary in the freer graphic comic medium . |