Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw his hands relax , and the broad shoulders lean back in the chair . |
| 2 | Julie fell dead beneath a tree , its lower branches hacked off in the frenzied attack . |
| 3 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |
| 4 | A group of British cyclists sets off in the heart of Brussels . |
| 5 | At the airport planes of astonishingly different sizes — like children 's toys on different scales mixed up in the same game queue to use the runway for take-off . |
| 6 | Some musicians stayed over in the States and opened Hawaiian music schools , plus there were dozens of mail-order courses — it just dispersed like magic . |
| 7 | His front paws rested on the heather as his back legs thrashed about in the dog-sized hole . |
| 8 | There were plenty of more interesting places to eat out in the city centre . |
| 9 | The differences in contents in different individuals come about in the following manner , and here I must stress that I am talking about sexually reproducing species such as our own . |
| 10 | The flow cost is the opportunity cost of the money or social resources tied up in the plant and is measured by the initial capital cost multiplied by the discount rate r . |
| 11 | And there 'll be a few showers coming along in the afternoon and there 'll be plenty of sunshine about and it should feel reasonably pleasant with temperatures around nine Celsius , forty eight Fahrenheit . |
| 12 | A few lights came on in the villages . |
| 13 | For those who prefer scientific evidence for the effects of essential oils on the mind , let me draw your attention to some experiments carried out in the last ten years by John Steele ( an American research worker ) and Maxwell Cade , a British biophysicist . |
| 14 | In conclusion , tutors are again reminded of their great responsibilities for achieving the high aims set out in the first paragraph . |
| 15 | BRITISH girls ' golf is this week moving into Europe , with as many as 22 players teeing up in the French Lady Juniors ' championship , which starts today at St-Nom-La-Breteche , near Paris . |
| 16 | In 1829 Elie de Beaumont put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting and argued that compressional stresses set up in the crust as a result of the cooling of the Earth 's interior would give rise to faulting , folding and thickening of the crust , and eventually to the formation of mountain ranges . |
| 17 | Thou Shalt Not Spy on thy Mother 's Old Schoolfriends Parading around in the Nude . |
| 18 | That alienation of the German Bohemians showed up in the 1935 elections when Konrad Henlein 's pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei became the second largest parliamentary party . |
| 19 | The computation involved is complicated , but well within the powers of a small box of modern electronic components wired up in the proper way . |
| 20 | The first is much larger : 444 interviews carried out in the early 1970s . |
| 21 | Therefore there may not be as much agreement on this point in economic evaluations carried out in the future . |
| 22 | Not only that , there was the auto-suggestion of two tiny Spanish brats splashing about in the pond in front of the green , fishing for lost balls . |
| 23 | He was heir to one of the most exotic personal fiefdoms carved out in the age of European colonial expansion . |
| 24 | Some systemically-desirable information , although part of the wider system , was not relevant to the actual activities carried out in the EPH . |
| 25 | Such sharks caught up in the net of pressganging were generally ideal raw material for the Guard . |
| 26 | The next few years saw her and Ross out with this band of fun boaters and future rodeo aficionados though Lesley remembers having spent much of these early years bobbing about in the boils on the edge of the rough stuff , a result of lack of confidence in her own ability and perhaps not being pushed to perform by the guys in the group as much as they would each other . |
| 27 | He scanned the dark figures moving about in the blackness , saw the odd flash-bulb explode as tourists took pictures of one of the capital 's most famous landmarks . |
| 28 | So far , more than 2,000 bodies picked up in the border area have been sent back to their families . |
| 29 | Dunstable withdrew yesterday from the FA Cup , but face disciplinary action after their remaining players walked off in the 38th minute of the tie at Staines after the referee Stephen Head sent off a third member of their team . |
| 30 | Similar discrepancies opened up in the agricultural sphere . |