Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King 's Highway ( 17 ) : Edom 's refusal to let Israel pass along this main road involves them in a long detour south and round . |
| 2 | In addition , even medium-sized plants can dominate the labour markets of small towns ( for example , in the cases of Westland at Yeovil and Clarks at Street ) , and this places them in a strong position in their dealings with the labour force ( Lever 1978 ) . |
| 3 | HRM does not invalidate the procedures and skills of personnel management but , rather , places them in a different conceptual framework . |
| 4 | There is general recognition that , although social workers and their agencies can not combat the structural causes of social problems , their knowledge of the effects of poverty and other disadvantages places them in a unique position to influence social policies ( Wharf , 1985 ; Townsend et al . , |
| 5 | It therefore places them in a paradoxical relationship and leaves the believer to live with the tension of relating to the world . |
| 6 | The electrons may be emitted from a hot cathode maintained at a fixed temperature and then conducted through a stable arrangement of electric and magnetic fields which imparts to them a certain amount of energy and focusses them in a particular region of space . |
| 7 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 8 | Jill Duffy 's psychological involvement in housework , for example , manifests itself in a 105-hour week . |
| 9 | Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction . |
| 10 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 11 | TRIPOS ' extensive experience and expertise in conformational searching , activity prediction , and 3D visualisation places it in a unique position to produce a single system that unites 3D searching , molecular design and analysis with proprietary activity and property prediction techniques into an effective information analysis environment . |
| 12 | Orders won since September nineteen eighty nine are in excess of sixty five million pounds and the company says its in a good position to take advantage of an anticipated upturn in work in the mid nineties . |
| 13 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 14 | As tall as John Cleese and looking like Stan Bowles , he passionately regales you in a pained South African accent , all wild gesticulation . |
| 15 | The first comedian says something in a high-flown style , and the other repeats the same information in a colloquial one : |
| 16 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 17 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 18 | It establishes him in a special relationship with God . |
| 19 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 20 | This product grabs Windows by the lapels and uses it in a whole new way . |
| 21 | Again , there will be cases in which an event occurs which affects everyone in a given vacancy — recruitment is held , or the position is filled . |
| 22 | Occasionally , there 's a happy accident that leads me in a nice direction . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He reveals Himself in a receptor-orientated fashion ’ ( Kraft 1979:169 ) . |
| 24 | Looking at Philip Swallow now , as he seats himself in a low , upholstered chair facing her , Robyn has difficulty in recognizing the jet-set philanderer of Rupert Sutcliffe 's description . |
| 25 | My advice is to remember that the short story is about one thing and one thing only , which often reveals itself in a single situation . |
| 26 | An early picture shows her in a wide-brimmed black hat and white dress owned by Sarah . |
| 27 | Looking back on the bitter , dangerous adventure he undertook in her service , years later , Hi Ridden still sees her in a romantic light : |
| 28 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 29 | Even as she offers her diagnosis , she very touchingly envelops it in a renewed insistence on how he was still , in 1935 , ‘ passionate and austere , : |
| 30 | She makes her own glazes from vegetable ash and fires them in a small wood-burning kiln we built together . ’ |