Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a man of simple tastes who had a down-to-earth view of life that he passed on in an almost unconscious way with an innate goodness that is found among the local pillars of the community who never stray far from their birthplace . |
| 2 | He knew he was very much in the reckoning to skip a Northern Ireland rink in next year 's Commonwealth Games in Canada and yesterday 's double defeat could well be talked about when the Irish selectors sit down in the not too distant future to pick their side . |
| 3 | Thus , " in shells of N.lapillus var. imbricata the external sculpturing consists of a series of lamellar corrugations laid down in a fairly regular sequence parallel to the growing edge of the shell which , where they overlap the spiral ridges , are raised to form thin vaulted scales " ( Largen , 1971 ) . |
| 4 | In any case , as social workers we have to struggle along in the here and now . |
| 5 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 6 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |
| 7 | There are those who grow up in a very rigid and often fiercely religious environment , crushed into a mould , dictated by unbending rules and regulations , where little demonstrative love is shown . |
| 8 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 9 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 10 | Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places . |
| 11 | Before long Max finds himself caught up in a highly dangerous situation , where no-one is quite what they seem . |
| 12 | Sometimes vulnerable old people are caught up in a more general crisis such as a major road or rail accident , or other disaster . |
| 13 | She found herself caught up in an intensely speculative gaze . |
| 14 | Despite being caught up in an almost mystical trance , Laura had not entirely forgotten that she was n't the only person swimming in the ocean . |
| 15 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 16 | By contrast , death and decay are speeded up in the equally characteristic Peter Greenaway film , A Zed and Two Noughts ( 1985 ) , set mainly in a zoo . |
| 17 | Other weights used larger canes spaced out in a more formal pattern . |
| 18 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 19 | The truth is that aircraft accident investigation should be carried out in a completely impartial and objective manner . |
| 20 | Summat a all to be carried out in a much better spirit and both parties were pleased with the result . |
| 21 | As full analysis may take several days to complete it is very important that it be carried out in a thermally regulated laboratory . |
| 22 | A wide variety of work , from outer space to inner space , is now carried out in the newly restructured division ( PGGOS ) , including studies of solar and geomagnetic activity in the upper atmosphere , coastal and offshore geology , hydrocarbons on land and offshore , biostratigraphy , sedimentology and mineralogy , and earthquakes . |
| 23 | This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way . |
| 24 | The connections were , of course , the Red Army : after 18 months of disastrous and brutal reforms , carried out in an overly reckless spirit because the PDPA leaders believed the Russians would always bale them out , Moscow decided in late 1979 that it had had enough . |
| 25 | On the 25th March 1993 Mr Howard updated the DoE guideline to planners thus ‘ it would be against the national interest to refuse planning permission for the extension of economic indigenous coal where the development can be carried out in an environmentally acceptable way . |
| 26 | He was a big , strong , lazy man , who moved about in a strangely unhurried way , his shoulders bent and his eyes on the ground . |
| 27 | In the same way , when a teacher adjusts you into an upright position you will probably feel as though you are about to fall over in a forwards direction . |
| 28 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 29 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 30 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |