Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among these fish are a number of vital breeding projects , containing fish like Skiffia francesae that are extinct or extremely threatened in the wild . |
| 2 | The girls in the office would say in surprise , ‘ You ought to be shopping ! ’ if I said I had been bird-watching or merely reading in the sunshine . |
| 3 | The Director General of the Ministry of Culture , Francesco Sisinni has made it clear that once restored in the Florence Istituto Centrale del Restauro the bronzes will return to Brindisi . |
| 4 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 5 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 6 | Mary was pensioned off soon after this and now lives in a rage in Malta , where it is feared she is writing her memoirs . |
| 7 | Having been burned in 1933 and nearly destroyed in 1945 , it became a symbol of Democracy in a divided city , standing empty beside the Wall and prevented , by the threat of Soviet veto , from serving any purpose . |
| 8 | In years past this contest was unregulated and often resulted in the destruction of large parts of Altdorf and widespread carnage amongst the civilian population . |
| 9 | His doctrinal position is further and usefully clarified in fifteen sermons , which presumably belong to his years as abbot and bishop . |
| 10 | The reverse punch is also the strongest and hardest punch in karate . |
| 11 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 12 | The juxtaposition of high and low recurs in their next scene . |
| 13 | In the late Carboniferous Coal Measures of Lancashire , a fossil tree has been found , 38 feet high and still standing in its living position . |
| 14 | This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg . |
| 15 | Stirling was charming if somewhat reserved in manner . |
| 16 | Given the status patterns discerned one might expect that even if technology were to achieve high status and acceptance the version which would ‘ count as education ’ would be academic and theoretical and therefore stand in contradiction to more practical objectives . |
| 17 | The bush — or , as it used to be called , dwarf ( misleading these days in view of the growing popularity of the miniature and patio types ) — is the form that is most popular and commonly planted in gardens everywhere . |
| 18 | Branches and trunks of trees become wet and then encased in a film of ice . |
| 19 | Eldon Henry was found asphyxiated and badly beaten in his home in Grosvenor Road , Whalley Range , Greater Manchester . |
| 20 | Built in the hybrid style which has been dubbed ‘ artisan mannerism ’ , the house is exuberantly detailed and entirely lacking in the Italianate sophistication of the court style of Inigo Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | In addition , a build-up of plaque is a common cause of bad breath , known technically as halitosis , which is unpleasant and easily prevented in this case . |
| 22 | It was not until the Local Government Act of 1889 and the Burgh Police Act of 1892 that the Scottish spelling ‘ Burgh ’ became universal and firmly established in Scotland . |
| 23 | She personally recruited university-trained teachers , who were prepared not only to provide their services free but also to participate in the social life of the college . |
| 24 | This was essentially a room for transacting business , though if Fournier 's picture is reliable , the Emperor seems to have sat at an inconvenient height at his desk in a small chair , covered in green plush , so low that once seated in it , writing must have been difficult . |
| 25 | M paratuberculosis was detected in 65% of Crohn 's disease tissues , 4% of ulcerative colitis tissues , and 12% of non-inflammatory bowel disease control tissues , but in a tissue abundance 10 5 to 10 7 fold lower than commonly seen in Johne 's disease tissue in animals . |
| 26 | The numbers of γ T cells in the spleen , lymph nodes and gut epithelium are similar or slightly increased in young mutant mice as compared to wild-type littermates ( an example for the spleen is shown in Fig. 6 b ) . |
| 27 | On the contrary , as stated above , the ability to accommodate properly is often inadequate , imprecise or totally lacking in the visually impaired child . |
| 28 | On the one hand we may trace the influence of the theories of ‘ adaptation to environment ’ , a natural extension of the policy of indirect rule , argued in the influential reports of the Phelps Stokes Commissions in the early nineteen-twenties and brilliantly summarised in the memorandum of the Colonial Office 's Advisory Committee on Native Education , Educational Policy in British Tropical Africa , 1925 — hence the school gardens ( or the remains of them ) , the handwork , the needlework , the local History and Geography programmes and the ‘ vernacular ’ syllabuses . |
| 29 | They may be impatient , hurried and quick tempered in an acute illness . |
| 30 | In the first year of its operation only 5 per cent of polytechnic and college funding was allocated on the basis of competitive bidding , but the proportion is expected to be increased to 10 per cent in 1991 and further increases in subsequent years can be anticipated . |