Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His back was to her , he was toddling along purposefully in the same direction as her , across that bleak empty landscape . |
| 2 | With no daylight at all penetrating to the interior of the foundry , it looked more hellish than ever , its furnaces glowing fiercely in the smoky gloom . |
| 3 | The announcement was greeted sceptically in the National Assembly and by the press , which claimed that the surplus was illusory as the government trade figures were distorted by smuggling , variable exchange rates , barter deals and restrictions on imports . |
| 4 | The control panel is sited very sensibly in a line-of-sight position , on the upper edge of the body , toward the neck joint . |
| 5 | As a boy I would watch this process each evening , vaguely wanting to hold it back ( and seeing it , with adolescent melancholy , as the pinpoint of human existence fading inexorably in a black universe ) . |
| 6 | Since her husband had gone to join her , her tomb had been neglected , and sand was already drifting across its entrance , covering it inexorably in a red blanket . |
| 7 | Another path leads inexorably in a different direction , into the detailed study of the workings of the Earth 's atmosphere and climatic systems . |
| 8 | This bugles-and-banners stridency , drowning out the elegant salon music of pre-war Europe 's Indian summer , culminated inexorably in the Great War and the subsequent rise of Fascist dictatorships . |
| 9 | Somewhat in the same boat may be groups of younger teachers who see education in personal/emotional , or in political terms , and who are feeling their values particularly heavily trodden on by the current educational reforms . |
| 10 | Many of the fish species migrate from one river system to another : they can travel 20–30 km upstream in a single day and seeds can remain in their guts for 1 7 days . |
| 11 | General Lee had entered Maryland with 50,000 men , but the Brigade that was skirmishing its way towards Harper 's Ferry had left nothing behind but blackened camp-fires and crushed grasses , while the advance line of MacArthur 's Guard moved warily upstream in the late evening in pursuit . |
| 12 | The Tyne was heavily polluted , from about Prudhoe down to the sea , but after rain , salmon swam upstream in the clean water on top of the flood . |
| 13 | The infectivity of these particles was expected since they incorporate both the antibody-envelope fusion protein and unmodified envelope protein which is also expressed abundantly in the retroviral packaging cell line . |
| 14 | regardless in the other direction . |
| 15 | He stood straighter in the water , his broad chest glistening wetly in the multicoloured light . |
| 16 | After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport . |
| 17 | Well , A E Housman put it rather better in a different context . |
| 18 | All species of Alternanthera are marsh-lovers , and therefore do better in an emersed condition , but as their foliage is very attractive , growing them in the aquarium is justified . |
| 19 | fixations might do better in the long run by holding out until you 've got enough cash to buy the real thing . |
| 20 | They argue , on pragmatic grounds , that judges must sometimes act as if people had legal rights , because acting that way will serve society better in the long run . |
| 21 | Is the community so anxious that its judges not behave as pragmatists that this " noble lie " will help him serve its true interests better in the long run ? |
| 22 | The resale potential of other Anatolian items is less clear , but it seems probable that the finer quality Dobags and the more tribal items , whether village or nomadic , will fare better in the long term than " furnishing " or " decorative " rugs . |
| 23 | Judit performed even better in the second half than the first . |
| 24 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman 's contribution stood better in the traditional approach of the House in the past two decades to issues relating to consumer affairs . |
| 26 | So a female who can persuade two males that they each have a stake in the brood will do better in the evolutionary struggle . |
| 27 | Indeed the lasting effect of this period is seen better in the political pressure groups — the Gay and Women 's Liberation movements — which it spawned than in the actual pop music of the time . |
| 28 | Prince Charlie can go a lot better in the tartan game than most for he can , officially , wear no fewer than 11 different tartans . |
| 29 | Evidence is most abundant for specialists involved in ceramics and metal-working , because it survives better in the archaeological record . |
| 30 | Our current performance is at around the Group average , and I have no doubt not only of our ability to keep this up , but of our potential for doing even better in the longer term on any standard of assessment . |