Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adj] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Salmond has to appear pure in heart to his diehard fundamentalists by never again having truck with four letter words like devolution . |
| 2 | This technique is grounded in a form of composition that is outmoded : the age of the word-processor has made possible in practice a perpetual variation and continual performance which can only be indicated obliquely in print . |
| 3 | Recently , however , she has become involved in documentary photography which reveals all the anomalies and distortions of the once sick and self-destructive society . |
| 4 | It is his second interpretation , deriving substantially from Nietzsche , that has become dominant in deconstruction as popularly understood , where all meaning is turned into ‘ play ’ . |
| 5 | Also basing his work on media language , written as well as spoken , Bell ( 1985 ) studies in real time the spread of a process of determiner deletion in noun phrases which has become common in news reports , as demonstrated in 35 as opposed to 36 : |
| 6 | The hierarchical structure of local viewdata has been found useful in the teaching of classification and in the sorting of ideas from the general to the specific which has proved helpful in note making , especially in the graphic form . |
| 7 | Essentially , that is the issue in the debates which opened up in the Enlightenment period , and it has remained central in theology ever since . |
| 8 | I do n't wish to know what has gone wrong in school . |
| 9 | This should make life a little easier for the prosecutor , but let's not forget that the prosecutor only deals in terms of the crimes , with violence that has occurred , and the violence that has occurred is of course something which has gone wrong in society . |
| 10 | This lack of continuity — and the failure of the club 's famous youth scheme to produce players of acceptable quality — has left Athletic in danger of relegation for the first time in 64 years of Spanish league history . |
| 11 | John intends to keep active in retirement and will be spending more time on ‘ serious ’ walking . |
| 12 | Think of the present problem with Bosnia there is n't a single er advanced industrial country that wishes to get engaged in ground warfare in Yugoslavia because there would be simply no point in it and any casualty er would be seen as a waste , as a throwing away of resources and you 'd have many casualties it 's argued . |
| 13 | At the same time , using Todorov 's distinction , it does seem possible in relation to television narrative genres or subgenres to identify classical tendencies which depend — in the last instance — on conformity to rules and conventions for their verisimilitude , and to distinguish them from naturalist tendencies whose verisimilitude makes claims to be grounded in social reality — or at least claims to represent what people believe to be true . |
| 14 | What does seem strange in retrospect is the choice of church the couple made for their wedding : the Parkeses had strong Nonconformist tendencies , though they had baptised young Elizabeth in an Anglican church , St Dunstan 's in the West . |