Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Paradise Street , in particular , weavers ' workshops can be seen on the top storeys of brick houses built early in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 3 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | However , the MacSharry proposals look only in the most narrow , blinkered way for solutions . |
| 5 | Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | The frozen lakes and surrounding snow peaks gleamed ethereally in the wan light of a crescent moon and a starspangled sky . |
| 7 | Fragments of moss and algae that land on snow surfaces survive well in the moist environment , and may settle through the remaining snow to colonize the ground beneath . |
| 8 | If technology is linked only with science , then vast possibilities in traditional arts subjects will be wasted , and it will be increasingly assumed that modern well-equipped schools are for science , while arts schools struggle along in the doldrums , where neither teachers nor pupils will want to be . |
| 9 | It is remarkable that no patient had diarrhoea attributable to diet intolerance , and the number of bowel movements decreased significantly in the PEN group ( Table IV ) . |
| 10 | Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead . |
| 11 | My costume fits O.K. ; the tight velvet pants worked well in the dance routine work-through this morning . |
| 12 | Real wages were rising for those in , work , and living standards improved markedly in the Midlands and the South-East , serving both to diminish the political impact of unemployment and to increase the differentiation of the country . |
| 13 | Contoured hills hide car parks tucked away in the hollows out of sight — for the cars of yachtsmen , fishermen , ramblers and bird watchers . |
| 14 | The mushrooming of aid budgets in the 1970s turned aid into a fairly important source of business for some small and medium-sized companies in Europe and elsewhere , indicated by the formation of pressure groups in many European Community ( EC ) countries to ensure that an increased proportion of national aid budgets ended up in the hands of that country 's exporters . |
| 15 | The continents were not stationary , but drifted slowly over the earth 's surface , driven by the convection currents moving deep in the earth 's mantle . |
| 16 | The accounting practices set out in the [ draft ] FRS should be adopted as soon as possible and regarded as standard in respect of financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after [ date to be inserted after exposure . ] |
| 17 | The accounting practices set out in the standard should be adopted as soon as possible and regarded as standard in respect of financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after 22 June 1993 . |
| 18 | While permanent courts were established in the main centres of population , High Court judges continued to be itinerant , backed up by circuit judges sitting continuously in the main centres . |
| 19 | But it begins with a sizeable group of numbers from The Fairy Queen — two of them , incidentally , countertenor solos written out in the treble clef and a tone below their original key — so Purcell may indeed have started it in 1692 . |
| 20 | Consortium banks grew rapidly in the 1960s as a means of giving the owning institutions access to London 's money markets . |
| 21 | In the past year , serious peace talks have begun for the first time to end Guatemala 's 30-year old civil war between the army and a number of guerrilla organisations grouped together in the URNG coalition . |
| 22 | Ayliffe 's Mill is an interesting reminder that not all of the small rural corn mills perished early in the century . |
| 23 | The battle orders ring out in the Swindon dressing room … this is the first match of the season … the first game as a premier league team … the first of the summer tour of Finland … |
| 24 | I can just imagine Women 's Institute ladies creeping out in the night to pinch jam jars from from graveyards . |
| 25 | The important distinction between both dollar markets lies not in the nature of deposits or types of loan granted but in the fact that euro-dollar banking is not subject to US domestic banking regulations . |
| 26 | Rural girl children worked full-time in the fields or as servants by the age of 15 . |
| 27 | On arrival we were bemused to find only two medium sized marquees and three 180lb tents piled up in the middle of the strip of desert allotted to us … . |
| 28 | The Commission maintained that the nationality requirements laid down in the Act of 1988 were contrary to the general prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality set out in article 7 of the E.E.C . |
| 29 | A stack of empty bamboo Tuak tubes rattled around in the back . |
| 30 | Above us , great masses of cumulus clouds stood out in the sky like old-fashioned sculptures . |