Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhausting discipline , which features a mile and a half swim in open water and a 40-kilometre cycle topped off with a 10-kilometre road race , is one of the fastest growing sports in Europe . |
| 2 | Some extend in total darkness for miles and reveal displays of delicate carvings and formations that make water-action the greatest of all natural sculptors . |
| 3 | There are substantial differences in the way aids are dispensed in the UK and French LFAs and several aspects of this explain in good part why a major nature conservation/agriculture conflict has resulted in the UK uplands but not in France . |
| 4 | Some learn in this way for the first time about what goes on inside a university . |
| 5 | Flies such as these breed in decaying plant and animal refuse , and your ones probably all emerged from the same rotten potato . |
| 6 | These describe in some detail each department 's spending plans , its aims and objectives and various output measures against which performance is assessed . |
| 7 | In education teachers devise many kinds of experience for their pupils in terms of exposure yet it is problematical as to how many of these result in genuine experience , as defined above , and how many are ineffective , i.e. they leave construct systems unchallenged and unchanged . |
| 8 | The infections acquired by these result in further contamination of pasture with eggs which may survive during several subsequent grazing seasons . |
| 9 | When these result in avoidable death , and they do , then it could be anyone who just happens to be there — employees , consumers , ordinary citizens . |
| 10 | At high resolution these result in fine structure ; at lower resolution , various characteristic band envelopes may be observed . |
| 11 | It may be that these serve in some way as an indication of the quality of the male to the female . |
| 12 | These include in particular taxation , but also the areas of industrial policy and research . |
| 13 | so they all sit in yonder tree |
| 14 | Feedback Your Letters To The Editor Sound , style , taste and harmony all appear in this month 's Feedback . |
| 15 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 16 | There we all stand in companionable silence , stamping our feet , swinging our arms , pulling woolly caps down over ears , getting colder and colder as the skies darken . |
| 17 | I therefore My Lords conclude that the Bill on this point should stand as it is and in general I strongly support my Honourable Friend the Home Secretary on the plans that he now puts before the organisation of police authorities in tackling the serious problems of law and order which we all face in this country today . |
| 18 | No-one is saying anything , and as we all know in this game , a lack of information leads to speculation . |
| 19 | We all believe in political fairness : we accept that each person or group in the community should have a roughly equal share of control over the decisions made by Parliament or Congress or the state legislature . |
| 20 | Success as a pleader eluded him and , like many counsel in that position , Gloag became a law reporter . |
| 21 | On Europe , to put it beyond all doubt in this House , in the country , and on the continent , will my right hon. Friend reaffirm that it is the policy of Her Majesty 's Government that Britain shall not go down the route of a federal Europe and that it is for Britain to decide on the future of her own currency ? |
| 22 | Certainly , there is a basic mind structure in humans which we all recognize in each other while noting the absence of its full expression in other creatures . |
| 23 | The method makes use of the fact that the many hundreds of different proteins in the membrane all differ in molecular weight and electrical properties , each carrying a specific array of positive and negative ions . |
| 24 | A batteur de mesure … is in my opinion the most essential artist at the Opera ; the entire fate of the theatrical performance rests in his hands , and I have to say in all truth that citoyen Rey is beyond all praise in this regard . |
| 25 | Fashions in dress and diet , ceremonies and customs , art and architecture , engineering and technology , all evolve in historical time in a way that looks like highly speeded up genetic evolution , but has really nothing to do with genetic evolution . |
| 26 | She felt them all stiffen in instinctive resistance , not wanting their routine existence to be invaded by anything as bizarre as this . |
| 27 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 28 | This pattern of occasional rewards ( something we all experience in daily life ) will help your child to maintain a pattern of behaviour even when you are not there to give encouragement to him . |
| 29 | If A and B are two elements of the set which both stand in some power of R to a third element of the set C , then either A stands in some power of R to B , or B stands in some power of R to A. |
| 30 | As old age creeps on I occasionally reflect , in that pious way that is one of the perks of advancing years , about those things in my education which proved to be of most use in later life . |