Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this came about in part because his idol and friend , Wordsworth — to whom he was in some way in thrall — had left the district to go to France and make a settlement with his French mistress and daughter as a prelude to marrying his childhood sweetheart back in England . |
| 2 | How does all this come out in actual figures ? |
| 3 | One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out . |
| 4 | One answer is that studies of comprehension are generally very much easier to carry out in a controlled way than studies of spontaneous production . |
| 5 | There 's so much going on in Ibiza it 's easy to put together some really great trips . |
| 6 | She clearly had no time for Burley Woodhead when there was so much going on in Bradford . |
| 7 | ‘ I never knew there was so much going on in the world , ’ she said to John one day . |
| 8 | Replacements for your plantation wo n't be so easy to come by in future . " |
| 9 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 10 | Thus , the majority of this group had not reached the point of their heroin career where becoming known is most likely and so were less likely to show up in crime statistics , medical records , and so on , than longer-term users . |
| 11 | Why is it that marriage should be a relationship of such potential closeness , joy and fulfilment , and yet for so many end up in such unhappiness and hurt ? |
| 12 | How long those last back in the office , and how far they actually influence decision-making , is unquantifiable . |
| 13 | Firms like ICI or Ford might , as in earlier years , have been able to build larger or more technically advanced sets for their own electricity supplies , but faced with the same shortages of steel and skilled men as the supply industry , they were now less inclined to branch out in this way , particularly as the BEA were selling electricity to them at prices based on historic costs , even though the new power stations were costing more . |
| 14 | ‘ Those days Australia were so strong that once you were out of the team it was extremely difficult to get back in . |
| 15 | Both sides were finding it ruinously expensive to keep up in the race . |
| 16 | This means that it is only necessary to strike out in the declaration at the top of the second page to the effect that the survivor can ( for joint tenancy ) or can not ( tenancy in common ) give a valid receipt for capital money . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it is a shame that more people are not convinced by the results that care in the community is producing and are not prepared to move over in greater numbers , ’ says Mrs Polson , who was also a sister at Aycliffe Hospital during her 10 years there . |
| 18 | She would have got soaked had they stayed any longer , and Ven was quite right to see it was not sensible to amble around in the pouring rain . |
| 19 | These have proved difficult if not impossible to pin down in any precise terms and demand for them appears to be similarly volatile … . |
| 20 | THERE 'S not much to sing about in Britain 's current economic climate — but you would never know it . |
| 21 | Soldiers , right , stab her and they 're all dying and then you see the head like it 's just all dressed up in these things and it 's Arnie underneath it and he takes the head off |
| 22 | It gets progressively harder to get down in temperature , does it ? |
| 23 | In other words , the dying mouse is the one most likely to end up in a cat 's stomach . |
| 24 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 25 | You stick a Frownie on the parts of the face you are most likely to screw up in pain — the forehead , the outer end of the cheekbones — so that when your face starts to contract , you will realise it is happening , and relax your features into a seraphic , line-free mask . |
| 26 | Snuff are what the Manics sneeringly refer to as ‘ a T-shirt band ’ — meaning a group of young southern Englishmen forever willing to amble about in Transit van land and getting the occasional play on rubbish indie radio shows that nobody with any taste listens to . |
| 27 | I was hardly likely to sit up in bed and say ‘ Do come in , have we met ? ’ was I ? ’ |
| 28 | Do Protestants or Catholics achieve more in the educational system , for example ; or are Catholics more likely to end up in prison than Protestants ? |
| 29 | Yet the schools they attend are , on the whole , not as good in terms of status , teacher input and , sometimes , physical surroundings ; they make less use of the educational system beyond the compulsory school stage ; they are less likely to pass government examinations and go on to university ; and they are far more likely to end up in manual occupations , just like their fathers and mothers . |
| 30 | However , by the autumn of 1992 , both the government and other experts were predicting that the continuing recession would lead to a still more rapid slow down in the growth of government revenue . |