Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would sit there all day doing this , sleeping sometimes in his chair but never tuning off , trying to make all these pieces of television fit together in some way . |
| 2 | The plants grow naturally in impoverished peat bogs , and they devour insects as a source of protein . |
| 3 | The crucial point in this deductive piece of science was that corals grow only in shallow water ; the theory became generally accepted , and helped to make Darwin 's name as a geologist . |
| 4 | D. From long experience the Wills family know that cereal crops ( wheat and barley ) normally grow better in this region than in other parts of Britain . |
| 5 | There again , I would say that top down in this country it is fast enough , and what shake there is certainly is not accompanied by any rattles or ‘ looseness ’ . |
| 6 | I hurry over in that direction . |
| 7 | Alternatively , grow outside in full sun . |
| 8 | Other examples appear elsewhere in this chapter . |
| 9 | To remove , score the past with a knife and peel back in one layer . |
| 10 | We do n't wait till the kingdom comes before we celebrate , we celebrate now in joyful anticipation . |
| 11 | Pineapples grow well in Martian soil , so they 'll eat things like fruit and nuts . |
| 12 | The same interests appear even in slighter work : for instance the backs of the boys jumping to the pipe on an enchanting pelike ( fig. 90 ; one of the new shapes , a version of the one-piece amphora ) . |
| 13 | The intelligentsia are blamed — or praised — for instilling in the working class the conviction that the solution to their problems lay not in economic reform but political revolution . |
| 14 | CAB advisers are accustomed to finding themselves in the position of mediators , and although they usually sit comfortably in this role , many dislike the role of mediator between client , Department of Social Security and charity foundations that has been thrust upon them . |
| 15 | It is surprising how often this simple request is ignored and the spaces left blank or the numbers put down in any order but that asked for . |
| 16 | Many plants spread naturally in this way , their flexible stems arching down and rooting where they rest on the ground , and gardeners have adopted this method for woody subjects otherwise difficult to propagate . |
| 17 | Even those who receive treatment frequently break down in old age . |
| 18 | On a quartz-feldspar-rock fragments triangular diagram these more susceptible minerals plot together in one corner . |
| 19 | Even if the plants die down in mid winter , they will sprout again in spring earlier than if they were planted outdoors . |
| 20 | Having consulted a colleague in the USA , he has now found that they breed best in fresh water ) the hard water of his Lincolnshire home being ideal . ) |
| 21 | Between 1971 and 1991 , the most popular substances for abuse were gas fuels ( primarily cigarette-lighter refills and bottled domestic gases ; 35.1% of deaths ) , aerosols ( primarily deodorants/antiperspirants and pain-relief sprays ; 20.9% ) , glues ( mostly contact adhesives ; 19.2% ) , and ‘ other ’ ( typewriter correction fluid and anaesthetic gases figure prominently in this group , which also included petrol , plastic remover , and dry-cleaning fluid ; 20.7% ) . |
| 22 | Hold still in this position for 20 counts and feel the stretch in your spine and legs . |
| 23 | Hold still in this position for 5 counts . |
| 24 | Drinks sweetened with aspartame deteriorate rapidly in hot weather . |
| 25 | Variety commented that , ‘ Hoffman 's prior films show up in marked contrast . |
| 26 | The only costs that figure automatically in capitalist market exchanges are those private costs of the immediate producers , their costs of raw material , labour and capital . |
| 27 | Service and maintain filter media by cleaning regularly — gravel syphon or wash out in warm tank water |
| 28 | The same as the way that this gentleman has found it 's somebody else making a decision to what people can see and I do n't consider some a show like Pro 's and Con 's which had female nudity and two hundred and fifty people walk out in one night to mean something which I think is enhancing to the playhouse . . |
| 29 | Pied flycatchers breed primarily in broad-leafed woodland which provides the insect food , mainly caterpillars , they require to feed their young . |
| 30 | There was general agreement that the recommendations put forward in that report were excellent , compassionate and necessary to protect the interests of the disabled . |