Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It was inevitable that both would act in the same interests , and command support against putative extravagance and recklessness . |
2 | Professor Derek Ellwood , director of the pathogenic microbe research laboratory at the Centre for Applied Microbiology Research , Porton Down , Wiltshire , says that ‘ from the point of view of safety , a biotechnology factory should not be designed in the same ways as one making antibiotics ’ . |
3 | At home the sudden switch from inflation and boom to stagnation and slump in a few months made changes in policy inevitable . |
4 | Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on . |
5 | As explained earlier , it is therefore important to avoid the use of independent overflow areas except as a safety precaution ; the one exception to this is when updates are grouped in a few areas . |
6 | The same human motives appear in different cultural forms , and different motives appear in the same forms ( ibid. : |
7 | If both NL and LD , or if both EX and CS , are switched on ; only NL and EX respectively will show on the screen : both pairs of codes appear in the same places and NL and EX take priority if both are on . |
8 | The reflected waves interfere with the incoming waves to produce a pattern of standing waves or clapotis , the crests of which always appear in the same places ( Fig. 8. 1A ) . |
9 | They appear in the most numbers where the marshes meet the wolds and where the stream that feed them from this higher region are , in consequence , faster flowing . |
10 | Since he had been commissioned in November 1858 , he had ‘ almost wholly devoted ’ himself to the building , and tenders were expected in a few days . |
11 | It was strongly hinted that " a dividend is expected in a few weeks time " which is equivalent to " a discount on the purchase price . " |
12 | It was a part of the prophecy of disintegration and chaos to be expected in the latter days ; within that context it was but one detail in a large picture , but here it was all , it was an answer . |
13 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
14 | Nurse Eileen Farragher said : ‘ Physically he 'll be okay to go back to work in a few weeks — but mentally he 's still shocked . ’ |
15 | As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out . |
16 | One senses a rush of creative warmth as this lonely rapt figure is conjured in a few sentences . |
17 | Brian Leith 's The Descent of Darwin : A Handbook of Doubts About Darwin can hardly be recommended in the same terms . |
18 | It is done in spring or early summer on outdoor plants , and rooting may take up to a year ; pot plants are layered any time and should root in a few weeks . |
19 | Like the books mentioned above , its specific content will be superseded in a few years ; but in meantime the book may be able to rescue some future Nobel laureates from becoming otherwise lost in cyberspace . |
20 | The Senate amendment provided that the right of EC citizens resident in France to vote in European and local elections would be covered by a law " voted in the same terms by both assemblies " , whereas the National Assembly under Article 45 of the Constitution could be asked by the government to " rule definitively " on legislation if the two houses could not agree . |
21 | The elections were deemed by foreign observers to have been held without widescale irregularities , although cases were reported in a few localities . |
22 | Yes , and I have even added in a few pictures which have never been seen before . |
23 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
24 | Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places . |
25 | The old craftsmen may have disappeared but in their place there is a bank , chemist , butcher , grocers , and many more essential services , trading in the same cottages built more than a hundred years ago , so not destroying the character and heritage of the village . |
26 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
27 | I hope he can start knocking in a few goals because we need players who want to play for the club . |
28 | My main gripe is the surfeit of turgid waffle by Art & Language included in the latter stages — a group with which Harrison and Wood have been intimately involved . |
29 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |
30 | One of the most important of these ‘ eruptions ’ occurred in the latter decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the present century when the fabulous wealth of plants in the Chinese hinterland was made known to the West by French missionaries and British and European hunters . |