Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And already the thin strands of cloud , the outer rings of the immense , whirling storm , begin to drift over the southern islands — Po Toi , Sung Kong , Waglan Island , the Ninepins — and the wind and the waves begin to bustle about in the harbours . |
| 2 | It 's a strangely riveting spectacle , but just in case your eyes get poked out in the moshpit , they 've got a quite daring array of slightly goth-laced nagging pop tunes , pinned by means of twiddly guitar hooks and belting choruses to that corner of your brain which is exclusively reserved for tunes to whistle in the supermarket queue . |
| 3 | Coal and nuclear power will be the most " readily available " energy sources when oil reserves start to run out in the middle of the 21st century , according to the latest projections by the World Energy Council ( WEC ) . |
| 4 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 5 | The strong tactics have paid off in the case of the prison officers , who went back to work last week , but there is increasing concern on how to deal with the tax collectors . |
| 6 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 7 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 8 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 9 | I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ? |
| 10 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |
| 11 | It is indisputable , however , that much of the money made available by the EEC and by national governments for price support ( guidance and guarantee ) as well as for structural purposes has ended up in the richer regions . |
| 12 | For example with education , it 'll be a terrible thing for education if the middle classes continue to contract out in the way that they are so we have a divorced system of independent education quite separate from the state system . |
| 13 | It is not our central concern as Christians to get bogged down in the minutiae of academic arguments concerning the merits and demerits of modernity . |
| 14 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 15 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 16 | The clothing and electronics factories have closed down in the Northeast , and the shifts specially designed for mothers , the part-time and twilight , were the first to go . |
| 17 | And there 's all those things got washed along in the river , they got stuck on the fence . |
| 18 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 19 | After several more rounds , things began to warm up in the ‘ Barge ’ public bar . |
| 20 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 21 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 22 | Where problems do crop up in the records they are often of the type that are familiar to all families with teenagers . |
| 23 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |
| 24 | ‘ In no way will there be enough teams left to carry on in the age groups concerned . |
| 25 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 26 | In the report it says that home repossessions have gone up in the last 12 months . |
| 27 | The remaining diagrams of Fig.9.1 show how these phenomena continue to show up in the profile . |
| 28 | Tradesmen presenting inflated bills have no interest in countering the popular belief that slow payers tend to end up in the Hudson River wearing cement slippers . |
| 29 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 30 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |