Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines .
2 The opportunity arose late in 1988 when the MoD had an urgent need for an RB211 engine — of a specific configuration — for fitting to an RAF transport .
3 The government on Sept. 24 granted foreign institutions permission to invest directly in all stock market operations .
4 The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them .
5 After prosecutors presented evidence that he had money stashed away in overseas accounts , it was ruled that Mr Dixon must stay in jail until the judge sentences him in February .
6 The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 .
7 The difficulty lies principally in that , whereas most scientists and engineers operate in a three-dimensional world capable of reasonable representation on a television screen , the multivariate nature of data analysis goes far beyond this into a space of m dimensions conceivable to the human mind only as an abstraction .
8 Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins .
9 If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed .
10 A gang walking around in public brandishing bicycle chains could have been convicted .
11 Secondly , this is not a comparative evaluation of different models of service , since the standardised diagnostic assessment carried out in this study by the research psychiatrist is not the same process of assessment that occurs in domiciliary visits performed by psychogeriatricians in more traditional services .
12 One building stands out in this dispiriting panorama of post-war mediocrity : a dark powerful mass of brickwork with a tall central tower that stands right across the Thames from Wren 's dome .
13 the organisation of a second opportunity to meet together in 1993 .
14 Charismatic political leadership of course occurred widely in pre-democratic societies .
15 And there was only her mind to wear out in this Dream .
16 The report says that the site does not meet the criterion laid down in 1976 by the Institute of Geological Sciences for the disposal of radioactive waste , which requires the hydrogeology of a site to be " simple and determinable " .
17 Interestingly enough , Bayezid II made the same stipulation in regard to the medrese attached to his mosque in Istanbul ( the medrese built probably in 912–13/1506–8 ) , namely that the Mufti of Istanbul should be the muderris .
18 Doors slam with that final ring found only in busy stations .
19 The club moved there in 1954 .
20 The club moved there in 1954 .
21 That shows that the Government are totally committed to encouraging academia and industry to work together in that excellent and successful programme .
22 ‘ I 'm not anti-drink , I 'm anti the abuse of drink and the hassle that it causes , ’ he told me during an interview carried out in one of the three plush hotels he owns .
23 The research reported on in this book consisted of semi-structured , tape-recorded interviews with ninety-six students ( forty-eight male , forty-eight female ) , and twelve members of academic staff , in three different institutions .
24 With a length of 116 metres , a width of 18 metres and a depth of 6.9 metres over the sill , it enabled the larger steamers now frequenting the port to have repairs and maintenance carried out in modern facilities .
25 In our results the proportion of diagnoses occurring after maternal serum screening rose faster in older than younger mothers .
26 On a more positive note , often the plundering carried out in good synthetic studies can lead , as here , to an enrichment of material presented to the reader .
27 Supporting Hackman and Oldham 's pessimism are the results of a large-scale experiment in the United States , along the lines of the Tavistock study reported earlier in this chapter .
28 He was due to face trial on federal fraud , racketeering and conspiracy counts later in 1992 .
29 Wilkes became involved with commissioning and editing the guide through research carried out in 1989–90 .
30 Research carried out in 1985 showed that 20–25 per cent of hotel guests cared sufficiently about fitness to view the provision of leisure facilities as a major determinant in selecting a place to stay ( Lodging Hospitality , Feb. 1985 ) .
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