Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew she was n't up enough in foreign words to understand him . |
| 2 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 3 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 4 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 5 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 6 | Only in recent years has there been a sustained attempt by Marxist thinkers to re-examine in a thoroughgoing fashion the relation between the state , the economy and social classes , or to analyse that historical experience which reveals the emergence of a new type of authoritarian state from the revolutionary process itself or from the centralized control of a socialist economy . |
| 7 | There is , however , no necessary reason to suppose that languages which indicate status only in paralinguistic ways offer their users more possibility of ‘ approximating to neutral , objective descriptions ’ than those which oblige their users to do so through grammatical structures . |
| 8 | As the helicopter came down to land , to their dismay they saw that the organizers had not only laid on about fifteen different activities for the Prince to inspect , including mountain-bike scrambling ; but children from no fewer than five primary schools were gathered together in great banks to greet him . |
| 9 | Erm certainly I think all of our quarry , the quarry , I think we were overwhelmed with the support because it was really in our place that the dispute started and a lot of other people who I 'd spoken to you know they they were amazed at the support we received and , seemed to be the shyer the people you know the , some of the lads they never spoke much at lodge meetings , but after a while they 'd be getting up and saying their pieces and , you know I think it 's just because you knew you had backing , and people helping and urging you on , advising you , and the union helping and you know they leant over backwards in various fields to help us . |
| 10 | They came out in great numbers to support us despite our poor early season form , and I 'm confident we 'll get it right against Dundalk on Sunday . ’ |
| 11 | They came out in great numbers to support us despite our poor early season form , and I 'm confident we 'll get it right against Dundalk on Sunday . ’ |
| 12 | Now in ecstatic visions let me rove , |
| 13 | It is not a serious one for the discipline , nor even in human terms does it compare with the undesirable side-effects of technological innovations in practical life and scientific research . |
| 14 | There is hardly any modern authority which suggests , as did the judges in Clarence , that either a wife can unilaterally in certain circumstances withdraw her consent , or else that the ambit of consent is restricted so that a wife is not deemed to consent to her husband where his conduct is egregious . |
| 15 | He had gone in there in plain clothes to catch anyone he saw doing this sort of thing , and he caught one . |
| 16 | The reply of the polytechnics to this charge is that while they are fully prepared to maintain part-time provision at a high level , students are simply not coming forward in sufficient numbers to make it possible . |