Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If people accept that they are governed not only by explicit rules laid down in past political decisions but by whatever other standards flow from the principles these decisions assume , then the set of recognized public standards can expand and contract organically , as people become more sophisticated in sensing and exploring what these principles require in new circumstances , without the need for detailed legislation or adjudication on each possible point of conflict . |
| 2 | Entities zoom around in simulated three-dimensional space , colliding with each other , shooting each other down , swallowing each other amid revolting noises . |
| 3 | 3 A corporate tie-up between privileged interests and state may be threatened by the emergence onto the political agenda of new groups and new " citizen " concerns that fall outside of the incorporation that bears on groups caught up in economic issues and the division of labour . |
| 4 | His eyes crinkled up in real amusement once more . |
| 5 | At night when I lay awake in bed , vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories … ’ |
| 6 | Elsewhere , equities boiled over in spectacular fashion . |
| 7 | But the words came out in pearly prose and the answers washed musically into tape-recorders and microphones and notebooks . |
| 8 | The words came out in sharp little machine-gun bursts . |
| 9 | When the much more rigid ‘ composite ’ constructions came in in Victorian times one or two of the racing clippers were built with hulls of deliberately controllable rigidity . |
| 10 | At first we thought that the foragers might simply be suffering from some sort of apian hydrophobia , but when we increased the distance of the feeding station so that the dances indicated the far side of the lake , recruits turned up in great numbers . |
| 11 | Mrs Rae sat at the other side of the fireplace and Madge watched her small eyes dart about in silent appraisal . |
| 12 | The books piled up in cranky stairways . |
| 13 | Above our hearing , bats flit around in total darkness , judging their distance from objects by emitting high-pitched bursts of sound and timing how long it takes fro the echo of the sound to bounce back . |
| 14 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 15 | Sixty per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education , up from only 40 per cent in 1979 . |
| 16 | 75 per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education or Youth Training schemes , up from 46 per cent in 1979 . |
| 17 | fifty five it 's a laser box the dragons light up in different colours , look see there 's nothing |
| 18 | Yes , the year 's hottest dance track was created in Switzerland — land of alarm clocks , snow-capped peaks and junkies shooting up in public parks . |
| 19 | His white teeth and brown oval eyes stood out in stark contrast against his dark tanned skin . |
| 20 | The fur on his shoulders stood up in stiff spikes . |
| 21 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |
| 22 | The importance of such rights , and the feeling that they were fundamental to the workings of society , is reflected in the fact that when one ruler ceded territory to another it was usually defined in terms of jurisdictions and local administrative divisions ( on the French frontiers , for example , baillages , prévotés , sénéchaussées or communes ) and not , as would now be the case , in those of lines laid down in precise geographical terms and illustrated by a map . |
| 23 | Later , from a nearby height Wolverine Squad spied many other corpses of Karkazon natives laid out in sinister rune patterns along one dismal lacquered boulevard — spoor of the Boars , now being exorcised with burning incense and sprinkled acid by some raving Sagramoso cultist guarded by skaters . |
| 24 | Since there are many possible adaptive forms , the patterns of development can be represented as a tree in which many lines branch out in different directions from the same starting point , not as a linear scale . |
| 25 | They can feel their petty lives caught up in great events . |
| 26 | Her health suffered ; vagrant aches camped out in different parts of her body but she did n't dare go to a Spiderglass doctor . |
| 27 | For this is not an isolated incidence of confusion , though rarely are such errors played out in public view with such global excitement ; similar things have happened before and some of the signs were already known but went unrecognised . |
| 28 | It seems clear from the surviving images that emperors took interest in and approved the form of their portraits , particularly those that would be seen by many of their subjects on coins and statues set up in public places . |
| 29 | While engineers scrape by in cheerless garrets . |
| 30 | But in my panic stricken state I still remember the advice to face forwards with feet stretched out in front to fend off the rocks , kicking myself off as they come rapidly one after the other . |