Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [det] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 2 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 3 | ‘ The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life — ’ the words caught his eye . |
| 4 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 5 | I am totally convinced that the solution to the search for ways to handle disruptive pupils lies in this impressive body of evidence and recommendations . |
| 6 | Frank Newman , the Treasury undersecretary who oversees borrowing , says that the new proposals will bring the proportion of debt that matures in any one year to 40–45% . |
| 7 | No one quite knows what lives in that dark sea of the deep genetic unconscious . |
| 8 | ‘ Well he lives in that little cottage at the bottom of the steep pitch just past the green , ’ Joe continued with a grin , ‘ as he staggers down the hill his legs have to go faster and faster to stop him falling on his face . ’ |
| 9 | T. S. Eliot aptly describes what happens in many short stories in ‘ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ’ ; |
| 10 | Law enforcement has always had mythical characteristics — the notion that infringement always results in some corresponding reaction by the enforcing agency . |
| 11 | Magnetite occurs in many other creatures including turtles , tuna , mice and birds . |
| 12 | Similar findings have been demonstrated in Kock 's continent ileostomy reservoirs , although there is some evidence to suggest reversion to almost normal intestinal mucosa occurs in these adbominal reservoirs after 15 years . |
| 13 | The return shows in all 849 persons of £40 and above , which should yield a net figure of something like 700 possible merchants , since a good many of the assessmented belonged to gentry , clergy , members of non-mercantile companies , or men of unstated occupation . |
| 14 | Although this might be reinforced by the suggestion , earlier in this chapter , that vision and the ideals fostered by a head can shape the total approach to school management , it is the contingency model and its capacity to take account of turbulence which seem to fit the description of several management approaches in this final decade of the century . |
| 15 | His arguments are fast-moving but inexact , and he engages in some wild flourishes of Hegelian grammar : ‘ Writing , in short , does not ‘ reproduce' ’ a reality beyond itself , nor does it ‘ ‘ reduce' ’ that reality . |
| 16 | In it , the young Anglo- Asian hero , Karim , engages in some heavy petting with a white male school friend , then takes a breather in the garden , where his Asian father is making love to his friend 's single- breasted mother ( cancer has claimed the other breast ) . |
| 17 | Grant engages in some lightweight banter with the radio controller , Mickey , who doubles as the Cutter Boat Club barman . |
| 18 | The same degree of commitment exists in many other staff within RBGE , and should be encouraged at all levels . |
| 19 | And — in answer to the second question — the only reason that oxygen gas exists in such large amounts in the atmosphere today is that plants and some bacteria produce it in vast quantities through photosynthesis . |
| 20 | Conversely , this communication between specialists will be incomprehensible to those who do not have the expertise which resides in this particular set of models . |
| 21 | This is the coldly correct relationship which prevails in these patrilineal societies between the nephew and his paternal aunt . |
| 22 | Bub , an army vet , vaguely remembers how to salute and shoot — but he also responds in some physical way to books and Beethoven , learning how to operate the controls of a Walkman ( again , the actor 's contribution ) . |
| 23 | Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow , creeps in this petty place from day to day … ’ ( 35/429 ) . |
| 24 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 25 | None of the versions differs in any notable respect from the rustic Swiss cheese fondue . |
| 26 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 27 | While the functions of the primary and secondary markets differ it is no accident that the financial institutions participating in them are often the same , because an efficient secondary market , in which existing securities can be bought or sold easily , contributes in several important ways to the strength of the primary market . |
| 28 | By ‘ externalist ’ in this context I mean any theory which denies that a mental episode has any meaning-content intrinsically , and affirms that its content consists in some external relation to other things . |
| 29 | Clarity appears in those self-directed exhortations of the novelist to elucidate Raskolnikov 's motive for murder . |
| 30 | It has been noted that the grounds on which the miller 's wife strikes her husband over the head with a staff as he fights with John are somewhat absurdly contrived : This can be interpreted as the contrived excuse for the wife to help her welcome lover to escape , as appears in some continental analogues of the tale . |