Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world . |
| 2 | In dealing with the Renaissance , we are assuming , as de Man above indicates , that there is a relation between language and the phenomenal ( i.e. the range of activities undertaken in a defined historical period ) which is an a priori given . |
| 3 | Here , the researcher explores how the foraging patterns develop in a similar way to the patterns that can be produced on a computer by following simple , repetitive rules . |
| 4 | Texts and objects combine in a new installation by Marlene McCarthy at Metro Pictures until 27 March and new paintings featuring over-sized calligraphic texts figure in Linda Daniel 's new work at Jose Freire Fine Arts , until 21 March . |
| 5 | Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent . |
| 6 | A second explanation is in terms of the frustrations that men of the disadvantaged classes and ethnic groups suffer in a class-based and racist society . |
| 7 | Half an hour later he came back , his yellow teeth flashing in a confident cockney smile . |
| 8 | But weather patterns change in a haphazard , inconsistent way . |
| 9 | This is a self service concept to allow those who do not want to leave their fresh air pursuits to indulge in a light health-conscious choice of foods . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) Branchial openings arranged in a slanting line ( suggesting a separation of pharynx from oesophagus as in modern lampreys ) . |
| 11 | Through contacts formed in a previous period of field work with poor urban women of this category , the investigator is proposing to hold long open-ended discussions with a sample of older women and their daughters on the subject of AIDS : e.g. their knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease , the method of its transmission and finally their assessment of their own risk of contracting the disease . |
| 12 | She looked like a hell cat , sloe eyes glittering , teeth bared in a terrifying rictus grin , body rigid with loathing . |
| 13 | Dead rats , floating in the brown swill of beer with teeth bared in a last deathly snarl . |
| 14 | Her teeth bared in a tight smile . |
| 15 | Our next step will be to show how the same two-part chords of Example 114 can be given much more tension through harsh dissonances added in a lower part : The lower part is always a semitone or a major 7th from an upper part . |
| 16 | This is among the proposals contained in a consultative document issued by the Department of Trade and Industry to implement the cancellation provisions of the Second Life Assurance Directive and proposed Third Life Assurance Directive . |
| 17 | Barn owls nesting in a small cave in Somerset ( see opposite ) produced a bone assemblage of 5161 bones from 113 prey individuals ( see p. 96 and Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 18 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 19 | ‘ Ward councillors have received a number of complaints and we will be contacting the Association , asking them to make the builders behave in a responsible manner . ’ |
| 20 | He spent months recovering in a private clinic in Bordeaux . |
| 21 | An old man , swathed in robes , sat before the fire ; he looked up when Corbett and Thomas squatted before him across the stones , peering at them with rheumy eyes , his lips parted in a toothless , dribbling smile . |
| 22 | Her lips parted in a small smile which she could not control . |
| 23 | That brought her head round , her lips parted in a faint gasp . |
| 24 | Her lips parted in a shocked smile . |
| 25 | She had not the least idea what was going on , and she was smiling into the night in enquiry and wonder , her brows arched halfway to laughter , her lips parted in a whimsical welcome to whatever might be pending . |
| 26 | Sabine 's lips parted in a soundless gasp . |
| 27 | Sophie froze , a glass in either hand , her gaze fixed on the bathroom door , her lips parted in a silent cry . |
| 28 | Wide corridors of heavy wood doors open to tasteful bedrooms furnished in a classic dark wood style . |
| 29 | Surely a policy decision should be taken soon , before we miss the opportunity and no longer have the funds to invest in a future first class tourist industry ? |
| 30 | One former senior official of the Korea Development Institute recently admitted : ‘ Old formulas for keeping the economy on track , usually technocratic solutions developed in a political vacuum , are no longer appropriate . ’ |