Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] in the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April , a month after the ‘ moderate ’ right had come together in the ominously powerful and well-financed form of the CEDA , local elections provided encouragement both for the right and for a Radical Party now hungry for power . |
| 2 | The point will be of particular relevance in connection with causal sequences or causal chains , to be considered later in the most relevant context . |
| 3 | Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places . |
| 4 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 5 | By contrast , death and decay are speeded up in the equally characteristic Peter Greenaway film , A Zed and Two Noughts ( 1985 ) , set mainly in a zoo . |
| 6 | A wide variety of work , from outer space to inner space , is now carried out in the newly restructured division ( PGGOS ) , including studies of solar and geomagnetic activity in the upper atmosphere , coastal and offshore geology , hydrocarbons on land and offshore , biostratigraphy , sedimentology and mineralogy , and earthquakes . |
| 7 | This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way . |
| 8 | Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields . |
| 9 | Deaf and dumb people were bitterly disappointed , and the BDDA 's reaction is summed up in its annual report for the year 1932 : No aid from the State was considered even in the most pressing of all problems , the vocational training of school leavers . |
| 10 | She knew it would wound his dignity that he had been forced to skulk abroad while she had saved the firm — never mind that she had done so in the most unbusinesslike and outrageous manner . |
| 11 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 12 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 13 | Few of those who can read actually believe what is said even in the more responsible newspapers ; like many Middle Easterners they prefer the racy , outlandish explanation . |
| 14 | Because potatoes do not absorb radioactive nucleotides , they are one of the few crops that could be grown safely in the heavily contaminated soils around Chernobyl . |
| 15 | It is binding in its entirety and applicable simultaneously in all member States , and has been used mostly in the nationally sensitive area of agricultural policy . |
| 16 | Some observers say that charging on the basis of hours is too simple a method to be used exclusively in the increasingly complex business of auditing . |
| 17 | This should not be particularly surprising since the main element has been price support for commodities such as grain and sugar which are produced principally in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 18 | The idea of introducing a degree of democratisation in the political sphere , put on the ‘ back burner ’ since 1980 , was advanced again in the slightly more relaxed and optimistic atmosphere of the new year . |
| 19 | It was reflected predictably in the relatively low priority now given by social services to special educational needs . |
| 20 | Lancashire , by contrast , have invested heavily in the daily earning potential of Old Trafford , now the best equipped ground outside Lord 's ; in deepest Rawtenstall even that qualification would be judged unnecessary . |
| 21 | The basis of this understanding of marriage is laid down in the very first book of the Bible : ‘ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife , and they become one . ’ |
| 22 | Deliberately setting out to offer higher quality at lower prices , Wilson & Glick kitchens include many features normally found only in the most expensive European kitchens . |
| 23 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 24 | As the demand for cotton goods rose ( partly owing to economic growth caused by advances in agricultural techniques and extended foreign trade ) cotton production shifted from the putting-out system to mills being set up in the rapidly urbanising towns . |
| 25 | One important global issue can be summed up in the now widely used expression ‘ limits to growth ’ . |
| 26 | She had been brought up in the most isolated of spots — although , perhaps , because of its very isolation and Granny Tremayne 's aloofness , she had simply known about , but not exactly experienced , communal village life . |
| 27 | If William and Harry were to be brought up in the rather stiff and formal atmosphere of the Palace after suffering the trauma of their parents ' splitting up , they would hardly end up as the secure , well-balanced people the Queen hopes will succeed her . |
| 28 | The detail of the proposals on contributions was , of course , fully set out in the very full statement that I made to the House by way of a written answer at the same time as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's autumn statement on 6 November . |
| 29 | The gardens are laid out in the most elegant manner and both the paintings and furniture are surprisingly fine . |
| 30 | My whirlpool analogy can prove equally dangerous in its generalisation for there are innovators to be found even in the most remote schools . |