Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears in many guises , and persists even in the communicative approach , despite claims to put language skills in a subsidiary position to communicative skills . |
| 2 | Hintertux is a tiny hamlet and offers little in the way of nighttime activity but Mayrhofen , 15 minutes away , positively buzzes in the evening . |
| 3 | Recruited for a tricky mission , he pinions a German plane under his own , crashes into a dam , floods a German base and goes out in a blaze of glory , having saved the British fleet from likely destruction . |
| 4 | Skipper has his breakfast and goes out in the field and I go home and am ready to start work at 10.30am — one of the benefits of being a freelance is that the person who rings up at 10.31am does n't realise that you are wearing jodhpurs and have dirty fingernails ! |
| 5 | The focused interview is closely related to the non-standardised or unstructured interview , and differs mainly in the extent to which the direction of the interview is controlled by the interviewer . |
| 6 | The collection begins in 1901 with Picasso 's ‘ Woman in Blue ’ and peters out in the 1960s , although there are some exceptions , such as Miró 's late works . |
| 7 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 8 | It is an archaic situation , and lives on in the unconscious of people today , and may emerge in a random group situation , and is in any case present unconsciously and affects the action of people in groups . |
| 9 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 10 | When the full length of tape has been used , the drive stops , and starts again in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | It has good head-retention characteristics and looks well in a straight-sided glass . |
| 12 | In fact I think it possible that in the context of hi-jacking we are developing the anti-tank weapon — one which is largely a moral weapon and lies mainly in the hands of political authority . |
| 13 | We left Simone and Yves behind in a trail of dust just outside Geneva . ’ |
| 14 | In females it generally consists of a group of stout bristles which lies beneath the extended fore Wing and engages there in a retinaculum formed from a patch of hairs near the cubitus . |
| 15 | Preliminary studies have shown that in mucosa from the small intestine of patients with active coeliac disease the activity of adenylate cyclase , a basolateral membrane enzyme which catalyses the synthesis of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate ( cyclic AMP , cAMP ) from adenosine triphosphate ( ATP ) , is abnormally high under basal conditions , and increases further in the presence of gliadin derived peptides . |
| 16 | Appointees have to fill in monstrous forms providing full details of their financial affairs , listing all their jobs , addresses and trips abroad in the past 15 years , and supplying the names of at least one person who knew them in their various abodes . |
| 17 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 18 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 19 | Capers are the unopened flower buds of the plant Capparis spinosa which has a low , trailing habit and grows abundantly in the wild , although it is cultivated extensively in Mediterranean countries , especially Spain and France , where the export of capers is a lucrative business . |
| 20 | The New Theory of Vision explicitly teaches that what we see is not what we touch , and exists only in the mind , not in an external space . |
| 21 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 22 | Serves 6 , and keeps well in the fridge |
| 23 | Rohan makes a smart , casual jacket — the Caradhras ( £85 ) — which has Insusoft filling between two layers of windproof Airlight and performs well in the chilling outdoors . |
| 24 | The eldest one could n't have children , and quarrels with her husband , and has gone dotty because she ca n't have children , and wanders around in a very odd coat all the time . |
| 25 | Thereunder in the county court , Ord 20 , r 15 enables notice to be given of intention to give evidence at the trial pursuant to s 2 of the Act whensoever , for reasons to be given in the notice , a witness can not be called : see Ord 20 , rr 14 – 24 and notes thereunder in The County Court Practice . |
| 26 | And walks around in the darkness , he does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded him . |
| 27 | HAMLET , however , continues the movement into an about-turn and walks off in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | Ponds , marshes and mires fill the hollows , alternating with higher ground which emerges first from under the snow and dries out in the course of summer . |
| 29 | Botia macracantha is tolerant of other species , and does best in a shoal of its own kind . |
| 30 | Mustard , whether black , brown or white , is grown from seed sown outdoors in spring , and does best in a sunny place and fertile moist soil , when the black mustard is likely to reach it maximum height . |