Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem petty to distinguish between the plural and singular form , and therefore unnecessary to include both in the index . |
| 2 | All round , an interesting tool , that sits comfortably in the hand , is kind to the elbow , and does n't cost an arm and a leg . |
| 3 | So now he sat there , his napkin tucked around his chin , smiling gently : a mild-natured , weak , weakened old man , loyal to his bully of a wife , glad to be included , glad Shirley had n't found it all too much for her , grateful to sit there in the warmth of the nice oil-fired 1970s central heating . |
| 4 | According to the Scottish Agriculture and Fisheries Department , the cadmium level was only slightly higher than that found naturally in the area . |
| 5 | Excavation beneath this mosaic has shown the mortar beneath the central -roundel to be of a different character to that used elsewhere in the pavement ( Goodburn pers. comm. ) : the overall picture , therefore , suggests two workmen , or ( less probably given the remarkable variety of the meander ) one workman using " acquired " sections of prefabricated mosaic . |
| 6 | This expanded dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 7 | Leece says he is prepared to go anywhere in the world to obtain a reliable resist . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's funny to sit here in the warm sunshine , and think of all that going on here over the centuries . ’ |
| 9 | Despite Rayners Lane 's lowly position , they were not afraid to come forward in the opening fifteen minutes , but could find no way past a resolute Milton defence . |
| 10 | This came across in the interview because although the managers were under a lot of pressure they did not appear to be panicked or stressed by it . |
| 11 | 'Cos this says specifically in the applications , with the exception of continuous surveys . |
| 12 | The spectra of π-allyl complexes of nickel and palladium shown in Fig. 5.7 include some bands seen only in the IR spectra , some seen only in the Raman spectra , and some seen in neither . |
| 13 | This happens even in the absence of their bête- noire , but is more concentrated whenever there is direct personal contact . |
| 14 | This happens even in the farm in relation to its fields , but it is more obvious with the village in relation to its territory or the town in relation to its region . |
| 15 | This happens annually in the February — March period , when they are actively seeking the ideal spot . |
| 16 | This shows well in the ‘ Blue Boat ’ . |
| 17 | This shows clearly in the sequence of deposits along the edge of the River Thames in London . |
| 18 | Four days later a different camera team were up at Ramsbottom to film a spectacular incident involving a car and a diesel locomotive , and all this happened right in the middle of the ELR 's ‘ all diesel weekend ’ . |
| 19 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 20 | This began early in the morning of 24 February . |
| 21 | But it would be wrong to stress either in the middle ages or in the sixteenth century — the significance of parliamentary opposition . |
| 22 | This carries two great dangers : It risks damaging the UN 's moral authority and reputation for impartiality if it is seen as the vehicle of superpower foreign policy ; it causes huge embarrassment to the UN when , because of its own priorities , the US is unable to help , and the UN is then confronted with the question why have you failed to act decisively in our crisis while you were willing to do so in the case of Iraq 's aggression ? |
| 23 | Some developed differently in the American context . |
| 24 | This appears strikingly in the words of the pilgrims ' Host , commenting on the tale when the Shipman has finished . |
| 25 | It follows , surely , that this applies elsewhere in the world ! |
| 26 | A few of these papers became firmly established ( and the latter helped kill the London evenings ) , but more , including some founded later in the 1970s ( such as the Chelmsford Evening Herald and the Guildford Daily Advertiser ) , did not survive long into the 1980s . |
| 27 | This having early in the days this not be impossible to get it all typed up . |
| 28 | This lay mainly in the future in 1154 ; a similar development in France lay wholly in the future . |
| 29 | This emerges particularly in the verse paragraph in lines 77 – 89 of the Introduction , in which the Man of Law is made to note certain tales which Chaucer has not versified — Canace and Machaire , and Appollonius of Tyre — which Gower did include amongst the tales of his Confessio Amantis . |
| 30 | I was indifferent to anything outside myself , and I was conscious of not being prepared to live entirely in the mind . |