Example sentences of "[verb] in [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times ! |
| 2 | Zoologists have found the animal difficult to classify in either the genus Felis or Panthera and have given it a new genus , hence Neofelis nebula . |
| 3 | This probably corresponds to location of the metal binding domain over the scissile bond , with the bithiazole and terminal amine aligned in either the 3'- or 5'- direction . |
| 4 | And , therefore , the argument is of people whose backs are pinned to the wall before they 're questioned as it were , and that does n't make for a sober and calm discussion , especially as there is some doubt , I suspect , in the mind of ministers , but certainly in the mind of many people in the Conservative Party , about whether these great absolutes , this wall against which ministers and departments are nailed , really need exist in quite the form it 's being constructed or whether the whole issue could n't be handled in a rather more sensitive and relaxed way . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he said , ‘ you 're reacting in just the way she wants ? ’ |
| 6 | But British Telecom Mobile Communications is introducing a transatlantic paging service based on frequency-hopping technology — the first on which the same pager can used in either the UK or the US . |
| 7 | If you think of the variety of commercials you see on TV , there are many different things you can do in commercials : animation ; live action , used in perhaps the majority of commercials ; puppetry ; mixed live action and animation ; computer graphics and picture modification ; a variety of special effects . |
| 8 | By appearing in only the Sunday episode of Not So Much a Programme , Crawford had been able to continue with other work , which included a run of The Striplings on stage at the New Arts Theatre Club , in London . |
| 9 | To take just one example : people still grossly underestimate the size of the language 's vocabulary — the most widely quoted figure is half a million words or so — an estimate based on the total headwords found in either the OED or Webster 's Third New International , which each contains around that number . |
| 10 | I have no recollection of how I found my way there in the dark , but I do remember having to knock up the concièrge , who grumbled in just the style portrayed in the cinema . |
| 11 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that the voltage at pin-14 does not behave in quite the way in which you suggest . |
| 12 | When faced with what we regard as consummately bad taste , or people who seem to revel in exactly the behaviour we abhor , we often feel revolted , nauseous or acutely embarrassed , as when parents say the wrong thing in front of a child 's peers , or that child is forced to wear clothes whose image he or she rejects . |
| 13 | They said the light moved in just the way this one seemed to be doing . |
| 14 | Examination of sentencing in either the magistrates ' courts or the Crown Court on their own may also be misleading . |
| 15 | However that 's a , I mean tha I I I think her , she 's always turned in twice the level that the formula assumes , or at least twice |
| 16 | I think it 's the nearest we 'll get to it , and it 's in the White Paper and it can be used in exactly the sense that I gather you would like it to be used , in the discussions we have on the results of the scrutiny , and that would be the starting point there . |
| 17 | ‘ It all happened in exactly the way we wanted it to . |
| 18 | The offer is from Essex County Council , which wants to hear from musicians aged from 14 to 20 who would like to play in either the Essex Youth Orchestra , the Essex Young People 's Orchestra or the Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra . |
| 19 | Pornographic eroticism , I will argue , is , therefore , to be condemned , but it does not function in quite the way some feminists have argued that it does . |
| 20 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 21 | The only parts of the Home Support Project which were not clearly understood at first were ( a ) its method of obtaining clients ( it was sometimes thought that any dementia sufferer in the borough could be referred directly to the development officer ) , and ( b ) the fact that the development officers could not step in immediately the psychogeriatrician referred a client to the project , but had to wait until the research assessment had been carried out ( which would confirm the client 's eligibility for the project service ) . |
| 22 | PATRONS WHO DRIVE CARS TO THE CINEMA ARE REQUESTED TO PARK IN EITHER THE UNION STREET CAR PARK OR THE ST . |
| 23 | One of the unsatisfactory features of employment law over the past couple of decades has been the rule that a wrongful dismissal claim must be brought in either the County Court or the High Court . |
| 24 | It must be appreciated that the spelling of Latin names varied in much the way that today Catharine , Catherine , Katharine , Katherine , Kathryn and Catrina are , for example , versions of a single form , hence in the list only the more obscure renderings are given . |
| 25 | The Moran training camp never materialized in quite the form Windley envisaged , the Masai , as usual with administrative projects , declining to extend their co-operation beyond token financial contributions . |
| 26 | So first of all I would call in today the accuracy of the minutes , because as far as the revenue , supplementary revenue estimate was concerned , no figure was mentioned . |
| 27 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 28 | ‘ If we go in high the Jerry planes will get us . |
| 29 | If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative . |
| 30 | The Director-General , Biagio Agnes ( like all RAI executives a political party appointee ) , has angrily accused the Berlusconi camp of ‘ dragging in even the authorities of the state and seizing every opportunity to attack the public broadcasting service with statements of such arrogance that they betray weakness and sheer lack of class despite ( Berlusconi 's ) economic power and much-vaunted influential friendships ’ . |