Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morning light squeezes through a small split in the curtain . |
| 2 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 3 | Pots will be attractive to add instant colour and a path sweeps away under the pergola towards the rockery where it turns through a right angle in front of the rose bed , eventually ending at the vegetable plot that is neatly screened by the hedge . |
| 4 | The way in which polling day is conducted , little altered since secret ballots were introduced , stands as a reliable landmark in a volatile political scene . |
| 5 | In The Tempest verse again stands for a superior ethos in stark juxtaposition with prose . |
| 6 | What Mr Eggar really meant to say was that there has recently been a high level of success in finding new oil and gas fields in UK waters during a worldwide downturn in exploration . |
| 7 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 8 | A bright yellow light shines from what looks like a small window in the east wall . |
| 9 | Claudia Schiffer , pouting Bardot of the Nineties , looks like a giggling girl in her cut-off hot pants and jacket — a far cry from the sultry pictures we usually see . |
| 10 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
| 11 | What looks like a four-leafed clover in the centre of a galaxy is in fact a product of gravitational lensing ; the four leaves of the clover are four different images of a quasar far more distant than the galaxy in which they seem to nestle . |
| 12 | ‘ It looks like a glitzy yacht in white , ’ Michael said . |
| 13 | The famous Vassiliki wind starts with a light onshore in the morning , ideal for novices , then switches in the afternoon to a brisk cross-shore blast , ideal for experts . |
| 14 | It may be argued , though I think with difficulty , that there is no important difference between the modern welfare state and the nineteenth-century ‘ night watchman ’ state , in so far as it is still an instrument of bourgeois domination ; or that the welfare state — involving a high level of government intervention in the economy , the provision of extensive social services and a considerable degree of national economic planning — corresponds with a new stage in the development of capitalism , which may be called ‘ organized capitalism ’ ; or finally , that the welfare state is a particular stage in a general trend toward collectivism , inspired mainly by the labour movement , and from this aspect can be regarded as a transitional stage on the way to socialism . |
| 15 | Pen-y-Dyffryn Hall ( the name is Welsh for ‘ The Head of the Valley ’ ) , lies in a remote hamlet in a fairy-tale landscape of verdant valleys , gently rolling hills , and pastures dotted with white sheep . |
| 16 | She lives in a terraced house in Lancashire with her mum and dad and her cat , Arthur . |
| 17 | She lives in a Victorian cottage in south London with her husband Roger and their baby daughter Hannah . |
| 18 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 19 | Now she lives in a small flat in Ladbroke Grove , with a young woman she says is her niece . |
| 20 | Finn lives in a small place in America , and having been poor , still lives in the same way . |
| 21 | Miss Corinne Day , 27 , a fashion photographer with The Face magazine who lives in a top-floor flat in Brewer Street , said : ‘ I was putting my socks on ready to go out . |
| 22 | He lives in a comfortable house in Marimba Township , three or four miles out of Salisbury . |
| 23 | Subtly rounded corners give it that added touch of class , while the slimmer and lighter size adds to a smoother profile in your pocket . |
| 24 | The art of ‘ growing people ’ lies to a great degree in this stretching process . |
| 25 | To be more specific , justification for the Reed Elsevier merger lies to a significant extent in the enlarged scope that the merged group has for acquisitions . |
| 26 | Their generating capacity , however , still lies to a significant extent in coal-fired generation . |
| 27 | Small enough for a coach party to whip through in half an hour , but good enough to occupy the more patient visitor for an afternoon or more , the princely town house stands beside a broad pond in the heart of the city . |
| 28 | The Eibenstein stands on a small hill in its own lovely park and garden , yet it is right in the middle of this bustling resort . |
| 29 | The Church of the Kapnikarea , built originally c. 875 and enlarged in the thirteenth century , now stands on a small island in the centre of Athens traffic . |
| 30 | George Wheeler lives on a remote farm in Worcestershire . |