Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had been a founding member of the Socialist Youth Movement , and after fighting in the civil war he had been held in detention in ( French ) camps in Algeria , before moving to the Soviet Union . |
| 32 | With the restrictions firms accepted , industrial sales grew very slowly and , after falling in the later years of the War , did not again reach the 1943 level until 1949 . |
| 33 | After participating in the abortive 1848 uprisings in Germany Marx lived his life in exile in England . |
| 34 | However , he was expelled from the CFD in August after participating in the Grand National Debate organized by Kolingba [ see p. 39040 ] . |
| 35 | The Sargasso Sea is also said to have been the site of the ancient lost island of Atlantis where the eels could have once again found fresh water and been able to feed after spawning in the nearby sea . |
| 36 | After burning in the Indomalesian region , grasses appear and , if these are left without grazing or burning , will slowly be replaced by the forest . |
| 37 | I do know about actresses such as Patrice Charbonneau , who did n't work for several years after starring in the lesbian love story Desert Hearts . |
| 38 | But because in Hollywood you 're only as good as your last movie , things started to go sour for Dreyfuss after starring in The Big Fix , a big flop . |
| 39 | In that way , Sir William was able indirectly to indulge his penchant for meddling in the basic work of the force , without upsetting the senior officers . |
| 40 | They 're ideal for saving in the short term and of course your money is accessible . |
| 41 | Learning through Writing in the Primary School Classroom Mr. Stephen Rowland , Lecturer in Primary Education , has studied aspects of children writing within the context of participatory observation in the primary classroom , where roles of teacher and researcher are integrated . |
| 42 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 43 | We have developed a combination depth electrode ( Spencer probe , Ad-tech Instrument Co. , Racine , WI ) and microdialysis probe ( dialytrode ) suitable for implanting in the conscious human brain to measure extracellular concentrations of glutamate and GABA in epilepsy . |
| 44 | But Cuckney does not find it easy to put his finger on the fundamental differences between operating in the two sectors . |
| 45 | I suppose the main difference I notice about living in the two environments is how my dress is n't bound by convention on the island , I just stick to wearing what is most comfortable . |
| 46 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 47 | But it is the gradualness of the progression which requires comment : here is another instance of the author 's refusal to acknowledge familiar distinctions taken for granted in the literal use of language . |
| 48 | Even the quest for fire , an element of nature taken for granted in the twentieth century , Whitaker felt could be held up as an artifact of wonder through the medium of Doctor Who . |
| 49 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 50 | Tens of thousands of Popular Front supporters , most of them refugees from Nagorny Karabakh and Armenia , criticised the Azerbaijani CP leadership for acquiescing in the central Soviet authorities ' retaining responsibility for security in Nagorny Karabakh when the region had been restored to Azerbaijani control in November 1989 following 10 months of direct rule from Moscow [ see p. 37044 ] . |
| 51 | It draws attention to the centrality of preaching in the New Testament . |
| 52 | Nessie had the pig bucket in her hand when she heard the noise of singing in the early evening air . |
| 53 | There are two reasons for this : first , it provides a complete and convincing display of the art of drawing in the second half of the fifteenth century , with outstanding exhibits lent by major collections worldwide . |
| 54 | She was feeling rather sick at the thought of drowning in the creeping , sucking mess . |
| 55 | Yet the confused young woman that was the real Diana was in grave danger of drowning in the tidal wave of change which had turned her world upside-down . |
| 56 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 57 | The conceptualizations of police work that are found in Easton not only fit what is known of police forces elsewhere , they parallel the portrayal of policing in the wider culture . |
| 58 | His responsibilities include those of assisting in the further development of the programme , monitoring the progress of the individual research projects , and formulating plans for the dissemination of research results . |
| 59 | The third , Vulcanian phase , also probably reflects this de-gassing process , with gas escaping from the magma below accumulating in the higher parts of the volcano , and then blasting its way to the surface . |
| 60 | This distribution , as Map 4 shows , extended an existing regional concentration of minting in the north-eastern part of Charles 's kingdom . |