Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 2 | The experimental subjects acquired the CR only slowly when trained in context A , the context in which the light had been presented during the first stage of habituation training . |
| 3 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 4 | The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude . |
| 5 | By the poetry of history the crown of the British sovereign , who ceased to rule in all but name in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , is the only one of consequence , the papal tiara aside , still used in the rite of coronation . |
| 6 | Much better than sitting in pubs with young girls or even drinking with one 's colleagues , the hastily snatched pint of bitter before they caught their trains home to their wives . |
| 7 | Calm water : Mushroom anemones seem to fare much better if placed in quiet areas of the tank , where the current is n't strong enough to actually move the disc of the polyp . |
| 8 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |
| 9 | It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence . |
| 10 | Not many viewers can have realised that this was a deft parody of the catastrophic visit of Mike 's ‘ uni-mates ’ a week or so ago that ended in Bron cruelly dumping him just before his psychology exam . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm spending the night down here and returning in the morning . ’ |
| 12 | The anemones will prefer being planted in full sun , as their flowers do n't open so well when put in a shady position . |
| 13 | ‘ Tommy Webber who lives next door works in the bar at The Packet so I went along there and sat in the bar until closing time then Tommy gave me a lift home on the back of his bike . ’ |
| 14 | He had been debating whether to go down there or get in touch with the record office of the ATS when , returning one day from an unsuccessful interview for a job with a theatrical agent , he had happened to bump into Eleanor Fuller in Piccadilly . |
| 15 | So it 's not surprising that toddlers act so explosively when placed in a strange situation . |
| 16 | Saying that is , unfortunately , much easier than calculating in hard cash terms exactly what you have lost . |
| 17 | We all sat down together again and chatted in general about falconry , and in particular about equipment and how to put it on correctly ; how to hold the bird properly ; different methods of training a bird ; the various illnesses and complaints they suffer from and how to cure them ; and simply how to take good care of birds . |
| 18 | She walked slowly downstairs and sat in her own armchair beside the sitting room window . |
| 19 | He wanted to get away somewhere and think in peace , but experience had taught him that it would have achieved nothing because he was incapable of sustained logical thought . |
| 20 | If such an experience can be recalled , it usually has the quality of being a person-to-person contact , not necessarily as equals in understanding , but cutting right through the barriers of status and age . |
| 21 | The trading position of the British economy is one crucial factor here , not only as expressed in the ex post trade balance but also in the constraint posed on expansionary demand management . |
| 22 | It is part of the job ( perhaps the main part ) to introduce the principal terms and to convey some sense of what they mean : not only as defined in a dictionary , but also the connotations , the extra shades of meaning appended to words by the people who use them . |
| 23 | Similarly , a motherless Glasgow soldier 's daughter was taken in by her grandparents and brought up with the help of an aunt , who married soon after but stayed in the same home . |
| 24 | Iris was already up and splashing in the bath . |
| 25 | A French subsidiary which does some development is already up and running in Paris with 12 employees — a German operation will follow . |
| 26 | Skipper Dave Williams came to the rescue with 50 not out and featured in an unbroken seventh wicket stand of 75 with Simon Moorcroft ( 21 not out ) to see their side home with five overs left . |
| 27 | The enemy was three hundred yards away now and marching in a column of four ranks . |
| 28 | In fact the layers are stacked vertically not horizontally as shown in the drawing — the horizontal position was chosen to suggest that the layers were still " supporting the front-line units . |
| 29 | He ran away as a teenager , got caught , ran away again and settled in Detroit . |
| 30 | On the outbreak of the second Dutch war in 1664 Stokes was recalled to the navy as captain of the Triumph , but he fell ill soon afterwards and died in Portsmouth 11 February 1665 . |