Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , I shall dispute that ontological existents can be coherently treated in an uncritical metaphysical fashion as " things ( existing unconditionally ) in themselves " . |
| 2 | In December 1917 Malcolm was given command ( as major-general ) of the 66th division , which was badly mauled in the great German offensive launched by Erich Ludendorff in March 1918 . |
| 3 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 4 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 5 | That pattern can also be called liberal , or bourgeois , civilization and it was most developed in the industrialized countries , least in the agrarian east and south . |
| 6 | Their use is most developed in the social insects , where each nest has a unique odour . |
| 7 | Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise . |
| 8 | Despite a slight drop in new construction orders in May , compared with April , there has been an overall nationwide upward tend in the five months since last December , according to the latest figures prepared exclusively for Chartered Builder by Bournemouth based Glenigan Limited . |
| 9 | The US Magellan spacecraft launched in May 1989 [ see p. 36674 ] was successfully placed in an elliptical orbit around the planet Venus on Aug. 10 . |
| 10 | AS the self-proclaimed party of law and order the Tories appear to have the most to lose in the emotive debate on escalating crime . |
| 11 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 12 | But , with the notable exception of the free-market Institute of Economic Affairs ( widely regarded in the 1960s , by people who now wish they had n't , as a home for impractical crackpots ) , they were guardians of the chalice of consensus . |
| 13 | The disparities between rich and poor were becoming greater and they were not successfully justified in the official media . |
| 14 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 15 | The Edinburgh Conference decisions , particularly on " non-intervention " in Spain , were widely resented in the Labour movement . |
| 16 | The rate of interest is set by the lender and is governed by a host of economic factors , all widely publicised in the national press . |
| 17 | In spite of all Diana 's effort it was badly crushed in the short journey to St Paul 's . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 19 | The crumple-faced star — known for his love of the good life — once said : ‘ I 'd rather stay in the second line . |
| 20 | The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world . |
| 21 | In business , an employee near retirement age may well be given a job with a grand title in a department which has little influence in the overall scheme of things . |
| 22 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 23 | After examining non-vocational adult education in England and Wales , this report suggested little change in the existing division of responsibility for adult education between LEAs , the university extra-mural departments and voluntary bodies such as the WEA . |
| 24 | The JDA annual report of 1989 saw little change in the Soviet military posture in the Far East and its potential threat to Japan , despite President Gorbachev 's announcement earlier in the year that its forces stationed in the Far East would be cut by 120,000 [ see p. 36642 ] . |
| 25 | Little change in the political map |
| 26 | There was , however , little change in the rigid separation of spheres between the male world of work and the world of home and family experienced by adult women . |
| 27 | In fact it rarely met in the 1920s . |
| 28 | The beamed lounge with its log fire is elegantly furnished in a country-house style . |
| 29 | It is exclusively produced in tropical countries and mostly consumed in the industrialized North . |
| 30 | Laura could n't seem to tear her eyes away as she absorbed the man 's hawk-like , tanned face and the sensual appeal of his tall , broad-shouldered body elegantly clad in a black long-tailed jacket and dark-striped trousers . |