Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you get the lowdown on stuff that writers never get , because you 're working with these people and you get the real story — not the stuff that goes on in books and magazines . |
| 2 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 3 | They did not speak Jove 's language ; they went to war clad only in shields and were , as Plato sternly put it , ‘ given to excess in drink . ’ |
| 4 | Leaves , however , tend to be preserved in the deposits laid down in lakes and the like . |
| 5 | You see it on telly , it goes down in sections and crumples in a huge cloud of dust . |
| 6 | They have no explanation to offer apart from the speculation that there might be an incompatibility between the two sources of latent inhibition allowed by Wagner 's account , with the short-term version being developed only in conditions that preclude the development of the associative version . |
| 7 | For example , Kerr ( 1968 , p. 16 ) defines the school curriculum as ‘ all the learning which is planned and guided by the school , whether it is carried on in groups or individually , inside or outside the school ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 9 | Sue Leggate says : ‘ Consumer rights have come on in leaps and bounds since Which ? first appeared . |
| 10 | Son Pardo has come on in leaps and bounds since finishing fifth on his debut at Newmarket on 2,000 Guineas day . |
| 11 | With the introduction of carbon fibre , rod development has come on in leaps and bounds . |
| 12 | The young members section has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's technically a very good goalkeeper and he has come on in leaps and bounds in recent weeks , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He has come on in leaps and bounds this season . |
| 15 | Rapes , murders , assaults , kidnaps and muggings are reported daily in newspapers and in the media . |
| 16 | Apple Computer Inc , as reported briefly and bittily , since news of these playing away launches tends to come in in dribs and drabs , used the Cebit computer fair in Hannover as the occasion to launch three new Apple Workgroup Servers , along with AppleSearch , its new information access and retrieval service for Mac workgroups . |
| 17 | If Labour were to stand only in areas where it has a chance of doing well , it would have to withdraw from a swathe of constituencies in Tory heartlands . |
| 18 | The service was conducted throughout in traditional Coptic , a language found only in churches and a few schools , and which very few even of the Copts understood . |
| 19 | In addition , water that has been softened and clarified should be carried only in pipes that will not corrode and add corrosion products to the system . |
| 20 | Also , for convenience , pamphlets are often grouped together in boxes or lateral files . |
| 21 | Members are organised in local branches grouped together in regions that are overseen by voluntary Regional Directors . |
| 22 | Hill farmers are primarily stockmen who delight more in animals than in machinery , buildings , or cash crops . |
| 23 | The people of the district rose up in arms and reinstated the abbot , but their triumph was short-lived . |
| 24 | The relatively low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome among Bangladeshi babies in Britain represents something of a paradox , since many of these babies grow up in conditions that would predict a relatively higher incidence of the syndrome . |
| 25 | Differential association starts with the observation that we all grow up in environments where we receive , from our associates , definitions both favourable and unfavourable to the acquisition of the motives for and the techniques to commit crime . |
| 26 | Up to half of the houses were boarded up in areas that were starving . |
| 27 | If you 're going to get picked up in bars and hand it out free on the first date , you 'd better check in regular at St Stephen 's . ’ |
| 28 | It was still very cold and everyone was muffled up in coats and scarves and gloves . |
| 29 | But pretty quickly I started to get all this hassle : these guys coming up to me , driving past in cars and stopping , calling out things to me . |
| 30 | And Kate kissed him back , caught up in feelings that had nothing to do with background or career or anything except pure sensation . |