Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 2 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 3 | After such drawings became fashionable ( and thus more expensive ) in recent years , Bean had been concentrating on filling in gaps in the Metropolitan 's collection of nineteenth-century French drawings , purchasing sheets by the academic painters Henri Lehmann , Isadore Pils , Ferdinand Cormon and Hippolyte Flandrin . |
| 4 | Meat production in the Soviet Union was down 12% in the first part of this year , while milk production has fallen by 10% . |
| 5 | A NEW TV detective will use breaks between programmes to embark on his first case — to track down investors in the latest sale of BT shares to the public . |
| 6 | The government says local authorities can narrow the care gap by pushing down prices in the independent sector . |
| 7 | The Clegg Commission was abolished in 1980 and eventually the government managed to squeeze down pay in the public sector through its use of cash limits . |
| 8 | And I 'm glad the Chancellor has been fairly tough on public spending and holding down pay in the public sector . |
| 9 | In the context of declining overall membership ( a 29% drop in the twenty years to 1990 ) and a reduction in the number of ministers ( down 16% in the twenty years to 1990 ) this was an encouraging sign which the denomination would do well to learn from . |
| 10 | Minoan wall frescoes showing youths leaping over bulls in the Cretan manner have been discovered in the Nile Delta . |
| 11 | The boy , from a children 's home in east Belfast , was said to have taken over £1,200 in the two robberies at Ballyhackamore in the past week . |
| 12 | Business development manager Laszlo Szilvessy forecasts that the company will turn over $1.5m in the first quarter of 1993 , after a disappointing $740,000 in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 13 | The trade was sufficiently profitable for the Portuguese to take over Sofala in the early sixteenth century , and their written accounts confirm that the export cargoes were brought to the coast by African representatives of the Shona king or monomutapa . |
| 14 | And Oxford take on Cambridge in the 119th Varsity Athletics match . |
| 15 | Even if your company 's main task is , for example , to carry on business in the chemical industry , this can probably be changed , if you wish to , merely by going to the annual general meeting . |
| 16 | A company is allowed to carry on business in the usual way until steps are taken to enforce the charge . |
| 17 | Three main developments should be noted : ( 1 ) the opening up overseas of branch offices of English or Welsh partnerships ; ( 2 ) the creation of new partnerships overseas carrying on business in the English firm-name and involving some , or all , of the English partners together with foreign lawyers ( the counterpart of the multi-national practices which will shortly be set up in the UK ) ; ( 3 ) associations between English and foreign ( typically from the USA ) firms to carry on business together in a third country or as a regional or transnational grouping . |
| 18 | the transaction , even if internal and concluded between persons carrying on business in the same State , produces effects in another State ; |
| 19 | Redcar take on Ripon in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup and Andy Rogers replaces Jim Butcher at prop , while Mike Donoghue returns to the second row . |
| 20 | Buckinghamshire under 21s are taking on Yorkshire in the semi final of the county championship … kick-off is at 2 |
| 21 | Queen Victoria , whom she made perpetual coarse jokes about in a way that struck people as uncalled for , had put her off marriage in the same way that she had put her off Scotland . |
| 22 | Skip the chat if you prefer to bomb on catamarans , zoom in Lasers , potter on Toppers or totter off Windsurfers in the local area . |
| 23 | Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth . |
| 24 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 25 | Outflanking Imelda Marcos , Cojuangco emerged as the leading right-wing opposition contender , continuing his campaign to build up support in the former Marcos bastions of northern Ilocos province and the Cagayan valley , and in the Mindanao and the crucial Visayas , estimated to represent some 21 per cent of the total vote . |
| 26 | If a bureau has only two interview rooms then four volunteers are the most that can be accommodated in the advisory role : two interviewing , one taking telephone enquiries and the fourth following up cases in the general office between clients . |
| 27 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 28 | Q. So how would you sum up progress in the last two to three years ? |
| 29 | He could serve up waves in the right place at the right time — or not . |
| 30 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |