Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 A happier fate than ending up in the cooking pot at Berkeley Castle .
2 A good tight-fitting cap or hat is useful since there is nothing worse than groping about in the dark to recover a wind-blown hat .
3 Much better than booming out in an intimidating voice , " We ca n't hear you ! "
4 Hazel realized that until they were rested they would all be safer where they were than stumbling along in the open , with no strength left to run from an enemy .
5 There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy .
6 There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy .
7 What is interesting to note about both the theory of public choice and Chicago School economic analysis of law is that their analyses , although wrapped up in the analytical apparatus of modern economics , reach more or less identical conclusions to Hayek .
8 When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home .
9 The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search .
10 If we believe , and many of us do , in unitary local government — one door to knock on and one set of people to hold to account — we must give them something to do other than riding around in a civic car pretending that they are important and delivering nothing , responsive to no demands , not aspiring to change and improvement , and not even doing what the Conservatives of old did in the Chamberlain era when there was the sort of socialism that is now anathema to the Tory party .
11 He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules .
12 The office was smaller and tidier than the one used by Inside Out , although laid out in a similar way with desks back to back .
13 There are two groups of tropical diseases of importance ; those that are sexually transmitted — chancroid , granuloma inguinale , and lymphogranuloma venereum , and those that , although passed on in a non-sexual fashion , are closely related to syphilis and may be confused with it .
14 Connections of Laurel Queen , Walking The Plank and Buzzards Bellbuoy the trio to sneak in at the bottom of the race will have to send them a percentage if ending up in the money .
15 But the yacht would be a pounding hell if caught out in a rough sea .
16 He blustered and turned scarlet as if caught out in a crime , and tried to bluff it out , but I knew him too well .
17 If caught out in the open , the echidna simply digs rapidly downwards until , again , nothing is visible but its spiky upper surface .
18 If made up in the form of a roll : 1040mm for the length and twice the diameter combined , and 900mm for the greater dimension .
19 Given soft water even Angelfish have a high success rate , and , if brought up in a planted tank and allowed to pair naturally , will often raise their broods .
20 With the few data presently available , it is difficult to assess whether isolated primary involvement by non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma would be equally responsive to treatment ; our case 1 patient died of complications before any relevant treatment could be undertaken , whereas follow up in the case reported by Berman et al was too short ; only successful local excision of the tumour was reported although ‘ radiotherapy and chemotherapy were recommended to the patient ’ .
21 I must say whilst scrambling about in the Quiraing the impression was of a giant stalagmite Disney World maze filled with wandering families in soft shoes and yet more babes in papooses .
22 She could not find the light switch and stood , her hand on the newel post , deciding whether to go up in the dark .
23 All acts done within the actual authority of a partner will be binding on the firm whether carried out in the usual course of business or otherwise .
24 In the light of these partial versions of reality , I suggest there is a need to look beyond the surface presentation , whether handed out in the form of a press release or in the crime statistics which senior officers consistently use as an indication of social mayhem .
25 Martigues will soon be all but swallowed up in the new harbour constructions planned to stretch west from Marseille .
26 In the same year , the Hoppers ' Bel Air mansion was all but burnt down in a fire and virtually the whole of Dennis 's collection of poems and paintings were destroyed .
27 ‘ Though I may say that I shall be getting twenty-five guineas next Thursday for doing nothing but sit around in a television studio for half-an-hour , instead of beating my brains out all week-end to write a script for the BBC Overseas Service and getting ten guineas for it . ’
28 Hegel 's Idealism is ‘ absolute ’ in that it sees all reality as gathered up in the all-encompassing , impersonal Mind which is God .
29 As pointed out in an earlier chapter , security was placed in the hands of the army as part of the innovations of the Whitelaw administration .
30 Of course , the data presented in the community care plans are limited and , as pointed out in the introduction to the methodology , it could be argued that their relation to real change is tenuous .
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