Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are ward/department duty rotas planned well in advance ? |
| 2 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 3 | The first concerned QCs appearing alone in Court ; the second related to the unnecessary attendance of solicitors on Counsel in some Crown Court cases . |
| 4 | Starched family groups posed self-consciously in front of parlour palms and porticoes . |
| 5 | The group discussions reported on in Appendix II excluded pensioners and the very poorest households . |
| 6 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
| 7 | However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales . |
| 8 | Flashbulbs popped incessantly and Whitlock found himself struggling to focus on the sea of cameras , his eyes darting about in search of anything untoward . |
| 9 | Is he aware that that figure is now 0.4 per cent. , which is way below the guidelines laid down in legislation ? |
| 10 | Words flung out in temper , for instance , do not carry lasting conviction although they may wound at the time , whereas a calm statement , arising from inner knowledge , is likely to come from the centre of one 's being and to hold fast . |
| 11 | Li Yuan 's lips parted slightly in surprise . |
| 12 | Special care was used to avoid RNAse contamination ( baked glassware , solutions made up in water treated with diethylpyrocarbonate ) . |
| 13 | Scots squeeze through in Harp Masters |
| 14 | some songs sell well in sheet music form ( ballads are usually very popular ) . |
| 15 | The normality of Highly dangerous cars crash violently in comparison with ? |
| 16 | Oh what joy , as the swing of the '60s gave way to the pong of the '70s , as flares creaked muddily in time to a trenchant progfolk-jazz-R&B soundtrack and the likes of Genesis , Rory Gallagher , Van Der Graaf Generator , Brewer 's Droop and Greenslade became the staple Reading fare . |
| 17 | Steps built out in front of retaining walls may look better if they 're ‘ returned ’ : the sides are built out on each step , to form rectangular , curved or rounded ends , filling in all or part of the space up to the retaining wall , so that each step continues round instead of ending abruptly at the side . |
| 18 | Her eyes flickered nervously in anticipation of the eruption of that anger . |
| 19 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 20 | On this basis we may stress the need to revise language teaching methods to come more in line with second language acquisition . |
| 21 | Man 's legs torn off in car smash |
| 22 | Here the combined efforts of Richard Acland , Liberal MP for a neighbouring constituency , and the local Left Book Club helped to persuade the local Liberal and Labour parties to stand down in favour of Vernon Bartlett , a journalist , broadcaster and former employee of the LNU . |
| 23 | MAI will now consist of four independent business units operating primarily in North and South America . |
| 24 | All these particular strategies or skills have the common goal of helping clients feel more in control of both their symptoms of stress , and their life in general . |
| 25 | As I entered through an archway into the cobbled farmyard the shelling had increased , most of the shells passing over in support of the attack party going in just along the road . |
| 26 | For readers looking on in envy but undertaking a sharp intake of breath as they feel as second mortgage coming on , this is far from the case . |
| 27 | It paid dividends and , as the scheme grew , many of the beneficiaries came back in order to help others . |
| 28 | At present rubies vary greatly in esteem according to their colour and source . |
| 29 | If you study and apply the formulae shown below in fig 3 you will see that there are many potential chord-type possibilities available . |
| 30 | There was a union , a chemical bond , between us , which nature seemed to acknowledge and conspire with , for the wind dropped and the sun blazed forth , and the great hills with their snowy caps shone forth in magnificence . |