Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Such research is necessary for understanding the mental processes involved in object recognition ; how object recognition may develop ; and , how such recognition breaks down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 4 | I listen to it quite often ( not this week though ) but I thought maybe someone could get on ( after we beat Blackburn ! ! ! ) and go National about the net ( especially if the piece comes out in square ball ) . |
| 5 | The plot flies off in all directions . |
| 6 | Maybe this attitude lingers on in advanced Western societies , explaining why some people still wax so lyrical about arcane grammatical rules , the Oxford English Dictionary and all the other magical authorities , and why they are so indignant about feminists ‘ tampering with language ’ . |
| 7 | so turned it round and come back , this bloke pulls up in this er well three , three litre |
| 8 | Operatives who have never previously held factory jobs need to be trained , expatriates are replaced with indigenous managerial and technical personnel , and indigenous capacity springs up in unfamiliar and/or high technology industries . |
| 9 | My divorce comes through in two weeks . ’ |
| 10 | We can therefore interpret our findings as evidence that what the community agrees on in this case is a pattern of stable differentiation over two generations between male and female usage . |
| 11 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 12 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 13 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 14 | erm we 're not gon na go mad knocking picture frames down in that room , it 's too much of a big job |
| 15 | This is not only quicker than casting stitches off in small groups but it also gives a neat edge without the stepped edge that usually occurs . |
| 16 | MIPS BUSINESS DRIES UP IN FIRST QUARTER … |
| 17 | Now , the , there , it appears that there 's a whole variety of phenomena er which suggests that sentence divides up in this way and that can be explained on hypothesis we just call such a division a constituent , and then we stipulate that , as certain operations can only apply to constituents . |
| 18 | Latent inhibition goes on in all experiments aimed at revealing the nature of stimulus representations and often acts to mask the effects under investigation . |
| 19 | The most renowned of the family was Reginald who won international fame as a collector of rare and exotic plants from the countries of the Far East and whose name lives on in several of his discoveries . |
| 20 | The night creeps by in restless anticipation of the morning . |
| 21 | That constancy of composition relationship breaks down in enclosed seas and bays for example where er addition processes , I E er salts which have been eroded from river water , may alter the composition . |
| 22 | If you are a professional grower , this bud is merely one among thousands , and you will not have the time to fuss and mollycoddle it — the head comes off in one go , and the bud has to take it full blast . |
| 23 | This new leaflet sets out in clear and simple terms who to approach for what kind of information and advice . |
| 24 | The lease runs out in two months time but the landlord has told me that I am not entitled to a new one because the lease is an excluded one . |
| 25 | That lease runs out in 1997 , when the Chinese are to take back the East 's foremost capitalist city , with its six million inhabitants . |
| 26 | The corporation 's charter runs out in 1996 . |
| 27 | So the same topic comes up in different forms in different soap operas . |
| 28 | One incident stands out in particular as a point when I felt there was little more I could do : |
| 29 | How well a foreigner gets on in Italian football , he thinks , depends on his own attitude . |
| 30 | Army takes over in 999 dispute . |