Example sentences of "[verb] in the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are few votes to be won in the rich white suburbs by promising to move poor blacks there . |
| 4 | There are still prizes to be won in the Scottish Nuclear News photo competition . |
| 5 | Easily Accessible : Walking in the wild unspoilt scenery is a favourite occupation of most guests . |
| 6 | Patsy Healey has argued that the crux of the political dilemma lies in the traditional Conservative support in the shire counties : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A further possible explanation , however , lies in the well recognised production of large amounts of mucoprotein by villous tumours of the rectum . |
| 11 | Their resistance lies in the tiny glandular hairs which cover the foliage of the wild potato , but not that of cultivated species . |
| 12 | The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure , in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry . |
| 13 | And the explanation , according to his interpretation of his experience of his world lies in the extra human agencies that surround him . |
| 14 | The answer to these questions lies in the intense international rivalry to be first with fusion , a rivalry that persists to this day . |
| 15 | The background to much of this discussion lies in the seventeenth-century English political philosopher , Thomas Hobbes ( 1588–1679 ) . |
| 16 | The pathos lies in the characteristic early English understatement — ‘ so seldom ’ means ‘ never ’ or worse still ‘ just this once ’ — and also in the last phrase 's suspense between precision and vagueness . |
| 17 | That is , there was work going on everywhere , but the noise of it was dispersed in the mild cloudy air , no longer staring blue , with the brassy sun striking down on dry earth . |
| 18 | Even the most cursory of examinations of the minutes of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party indicates the feverish activity which was occurring in the immediate post-war years and , in these early days , it was to be expected that mistakes would be made and that new directions would be sought . |
| 19 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |
| 20 | When they first appear in the early Ordovician the majority of nautiloid shells are straight or slightly curved ; they are ‘ unwound ’ forms . |
| 21 | Details of courses for returners organised by nursing agencies or commercial conference organisations appear in the national weekly nursing press from time to time and in local newspapers . |
| 22 | On the industry budget , regional selective assistance , which is led by demand on the part of applicants for assistance , is expected to be down next year , which is only to be expected in the present economic circumstances . |
| 23 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 24 | Faced with the dilemma of dropping a shot or ‘ playing her as she lies ’ , after long deliberations , O'Leary waded in the 4-foot deep water and out went his chances of winning . |
| 25 | This is because social being is located in the individual human being and not merely in the set of presuppositions given in the social context to the individual . |
| 26 | Although the Bcl-2 protein is membrane-associated r7–10 , its subcellular location is controversial : two studies have suggested that it is mainly associated with the nuclear envelope and endoplasmic reticulum , whereas another study has suggested that it is mainly located in the inner mitochondrial membrane . |
| 27 | These financial burdens are magnified in the absence of other important sources of finance , and it is hardly surprising to find 99 per cent of the total number of firms going bankrupt located in the small firm sector . |
| 28 | She rang the bell , and there he was , suffused in the warm golden light of the hall , his sleeves rolled up , pushing that silver forelock back from his eyes . |
| 29 | She led him along deserted , echoing corridors ; nothing was happening in the whole enormous building , he realized , but the tiny preparations for this one tiny programme . |
| 30 | Or flinging on high its smoke rings to fade in the pale blue sky . |