Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a status quo is preserved , Chelmsford seem sure to struggle in the new eight-team Premier League unless a number of quality players show a willingness to come to Essex . |
| 2 | The Rectory is designed in a simple medieval Gothic Revival style . |
| 3 | With the Professional version however , the basic cardigan could easily be designed in the STANDARD shaping section , leaving only the front edges to be manually adjusted within the ORIGINAL shaping section . |
| 4 | The new form of administrative control is , for Foucault , represented by the panopticon , a device designed in the late eighteenth century by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham . |
| 5 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 6 | There are few votes to be won in the rich white suburbs by promising to move poor blacks there . |
| 7 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 8 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 9 | There are still prizes to be won in the Scottish Nuclear News photo competition . |
| 10 | But before they start on their game , they signal that this is not to be a serious quarrel by walking in a stilted exaggerated fashion . |
| 11 | Easily Accessible : Walking in the wild unspoilt scenery is a favourite occupation of most guests . |
| 12 | So when he was approached in the early '80s to be part-time chairman of Wandsworth Health Authority in London ‘ I knew what I was taking on ’ . |
| 13 | One in six residents of the New Cross estate have been attacked in the past two years , and a quarter have been hit by break-ins , a recent council survey showed . |
| 14 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 15 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 16 | It might come as a huge blow to your ego , but there are women in this world who wo n't fall in a gibbering little heap at your feet every time you spare them a smile or a word . |
| 17 | When local government was reorganised in the mid 1970s , significant changes were made late on in the process but the Regional Council has been advised that this was the exception rather than the rule . |
| 18 | The secret of GORE-TEX fabrics lies in a unique protective membrane with around 9 billion pores per square inch ; too small for water to pass through , but large enough to allow perspiration vapour to escape . |
| 19 | To my mind the only possibility of solving this problem lies in a large European prospective randomised screening study comparing screening with no screening and using mortality from prostatic cancer as its major end point . |
| 20 | Patsy Healey has argued that the crux of the political dilemma lies in the traditional Conservative support in the shire counties : |
| 21 | The main obstacle lies in the existing neo-liberal economic model which favours the powerful and encourages monopolies to rule in communications and other fields . |
| 22 | We feel that the main contribution of this volume to existing debate lies in the actual ethnographic presentations of peaceful societies , with the overall interpretation being explications on indigenous conceptions of human nature and categories of emotions . |
| 23 | Again , the answer lies in the firm sharp warning but take notice of the difference in the warning given before guidance starts and those warnings given before the other methods are used . |
| 24 | A further possible explanation , however , lies in the well recognised production of large amounts of mucoprotein by villous tumours of the rectum . |
| 25 | Their resistance lies in the tiny glandular hairs which cover the foliage of the wild potato , but not that of cultivated species . |
| 26 | The only flexibility lies in the remaining forty per cent , which is devoted to research , development , and procurement of equipment . |
| 27 | The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure , in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry . |
| 28 | And the explanation , according to his interpretation of his experience of his world lies in the extra human agencies that surround him . |
| 29 | The answer to these questions lies in the intense international rivalry to be first with fusion , a rivalry that persists to this day . |
| 30 | The background to much of this discussion lies in the seventeenth-century English political philosopher , Thomas Hobbes ( 1588–1679 ) . |