Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cold inhibits or prevents plant growth and slows down chemical processes in soils , prolonging the period of maturation . |
| 2 | I know it 's difficult , I know the City is highly congested and we ca n't plough down beautiful buildings in order to make better roads and so on , and that is n't what we want to do . |
| 3 | But Japan Air Lines ( JAL ) experienced only a 3.5% drop in the number of passengers carried on international routes in the year to March 31st . |
| 4 | Some candidates send in meagre scripts in which every answer is carefully labelled ‘ no time to finish . ’ |
| 5 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 6 | To score a maximum of 300 points by knocking down 10 pins in a minimum of 10 frames . |
| 7 | But on Thursday he will be given the chance to resurrect an international career which looked dead and buried , and urged to start knocking over Australian wickets in more orthodox fashion ! |
| 8 | No marriage can survive over long distances in the long term , especially if all the effort culminates in the eventual failure to obtain that elusive consultancy . |
| 9 | It is a phantasmagorical performance , perfected over many years in advertising in which the prime requisite — apart from , or in spite of , talent — is to get yourself noticed , talked about and sought after . |
| 10 | Their flowers appear over several weeks in summer and are at all times most striking and handsome . |
| 11 | Paul Warhurst and Phil King are expected to shake off minor injuries in time to face Forest . |
| 12 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 13 | Last season 's national finalists Watchorn Alfreton , of Derbyshire , may have left their title challenge a little late this year , but notched up their first victory in three games to jump up two places in the tables with more than a little help from experienced manager Ashley Broomhead . |
| 14 | Then consideration is given to the importance of maintaining social involvement through keeping up personal relationships in old age . |
| 15 | These , in turn , had derived from an experiment in wiring up 18 homes in Milton Keynes — hardly a representative scheme . |
| 16 | OH , what a stir was caused by Ghostwatch , the BBC Halloween programme which appeared to have conjured up evil spirits in a haunted house . |
| 17 | The team usually comprises a number of subject specialists who either build up major collections in their specializations ( often , but not necessarily located at the central library ) or allocate titles to appropriate service points throughout the authority . |
| 18 | They can often be seen climbing up creosoted telegraph-poles in a vain search for food . |
| 19 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 20 | In December 1973 , Mr John Morris MP asked how many judges had carried out non-judicial duties in the form of inquiries , commissions and reports , or similar tasks , during the previous twenty years . |
| 21 | It has also carried out secondary consultations in respect of particular services . |
| 22 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 23 | It holds out worthwhile prospects in that lovely part of Shropshire . |
| 24 | Saints ' Allan Hunte went past him with ease and Hanley was caught out several times in midfield in the Halifax match . |
| 25 | A possible basis for the contrast was suggested : proper names single out principal protagonists in narratives , and so , even in the simplest of materials , will tend to put the named character in a role which is likely to be different from that played by a character introduced through a noun . |
| 26 | Little Horace Charles was carried off by pneumonia at the tender age of eight months , but Ernest William , Henry James and Herbert George were healthy young children crawling or toddling around those rooms in Wilmington Square . |
| 27 | I WRITE to complain about the way the council allows lorries to drive over pedestrianised roads in the city centre . |
| 28 | Could I therefore request that I be allowed to carry over 1 days in addition to the 9 days normally allowed ? |
| 29 | The conflict arose over rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea . |
| 30 | The aim of the discussion on full employment policy in his Cabinet committee was to put out a statement before Beveridge , and the politicians were prepared to slide over practical difficulties in implementing the policy — all that was required was a statement of principles . |