Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Apart from the damage it would do to the ground I knew it would have to be ridden every day and then if it bolted or got stuck in the mud it would be my responsibility . ’ |
| 2 | For instance , if the spouse does not speak much , if any , English , limitations on finding work or becoming involved in the local community are bound to arise . |
| 3 | This can be useful in unnerving the attacker and in avoiding the common tendency to freeze or become immobile in the face of attack . |
| 4 | ‘ And that a witness who seems reluctant even to go and see the patient , let alone state what he saw or get involved in a compensation claim . ’ |
| 5 | He had been significantly preceded , however , by the actor-manager : a familiar kind of solution , in which a leading member of one of the professional groups — that group which is or seems dominant in the specific process not only co-ordinates but controls . |
| 6 | This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race . |
| 7 | Apples became a favourite fruit for the Romans , and they were dried and served as a relish in winter or eaten sour in the summer as refreshment after arduous work . |
| 8 | We 're going to match up that cow and her little calf we got last week with a daddy — or go bust in the attempt . " |
| 9 | They wo n't muff their lines or fall short in a crisis . |
| 10 | Or dies unnoticed in a neighbouring street . |
| 11 | The client is taught to self-monitor and become aware of , for example , gripping the car steering wheel too tightly , grinding their jaws , or feeling tense in the back of the neck . |
| 12 | Council officers told the works and health committee that the scheme would help the many pupils that became involved in the food industry after leaving school . |
| 13 | Just as officialdom saw the legendary return of salmon to the Thames as evidence that Britain 's water pollution was cured , so it gloried in the Clean Air Acts of the 1950s and turned a ‘ blind eye ’ to dying lakes , moribund trees and the links between car exhaust and human health that became apparent in the 1980s . |
| 14 | In both areas , a candidate may be accepted but their bureau manager may be asked to pay particular attention to some area of weakness that became apparent in the interview . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , these conditions did not produce the consequences that became apparent in the industrial towns . |
| 16 | Even more noticeably lacking is the support for such exercises ; a point that became clear in the HMI-LEA curriculum appraisal activity , where advisers , for example , were unable to provide the support required . |
| 17 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 18 | Brown , wavy hair — not that really dark brown , but the sort that goes lighter in the sun . |
| 19 | Too early to know , say officials , and anyway that question really has a different target : it was the press and Wall Street that got euphoric in the early days of war , and then came down with a bump , not the administration . |
| 20 | When we see swallows that sleep high in the sky , circling higher and higher until they are absorbed by the sky , we think of the air as the frail hammocks finer than gossamer in which they are rocked to sleep . |
| 21 | If this is true for you , it may be worth considering the movement that lies immanent in every English sentence . |
| 22 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 23 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 24 | Individual signs and symptoms that seemed useful in the χ 2 analyses were evaluated for their independent ability to predict hypoxaemia with a multiple logistic regression technique . |
| 25 | She had done everything that seemed right in the circumstances . |
| 26 | One memory will certainly be of the running of far more steam trains than seemed possible in the seventies , not all of them successful … |
| 27 | I say I usually use celery but I say that grows wild in the school , so we use that |
| 28 | Some years ago Edmund Wilson complained of writers of Gothic who could fail to lay hold on the terrors that lie deep in the human soul and have caused man to fear himself . |
| 29 | Some , like chickweed and poppies , have seeds that lie dormant in the soil for long periods until the right conditions trigger them to life . |
| 30 | Is there not a deep self that keeps active in the subconscious , expressing in dreams the thoughts that it evades in conscious life ? |