Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of de-differentiation that they celebrated has arguably increased exponentially in the past two decades . |
| 2 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 3 | Assertiveness training has rarely featured much in religious traditions . |
| 4 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 5 | Has since travelled extensively in Africa , India and South America . |
| 6 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 7 | ‘ Remember , Glenn has only lost twice in seven years , once to lose his title to Jeff Lampkin and the other at heavyweight to Lennox Lewis . |
| 8 | Indeed , no accepted curriculum subject has not featured somewhere in the proposal documents . |
| 9 | But England has not done well in test matches lately — partly , the experts say , because neither one-day nor three-day games are a proper preparation for five-day tests . |
| 10 | Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury . |
| 11 | A major balance of payments deficit when the economy is in deep recession has not occurred before in this country . |
| 12 | A major balance of payments deficit when the economy is in deep recession has not occurred before in this country . |
| 13 | The returning emigres hope for a clean sweep but this has not happened anywhere in Eastern Europe where the price of reconciliation has always been a measure of compromise . |
| 14 | Housing has not figured prominently in inner-urban policy . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Diana , who has not figured regularly in up-market births col-umns since the Fifties , again fails to make a mark . |
| 16 | The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the first was published , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn[000] . |
| 17 | The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the publication of the first such journal , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn . |
| 18 | Budgets for prisons have hardly kept pace with inflation , and , despite occasional lip-service commitment to reform , the policy of the British before 1947- to run gaols as cheaply as possible — has not changed significantly in practice ( Baxi 1982 ; Khan and Chilad 1982 ; Bhatacharya 1985 ; Gokhale and Sohoni 1988 ) . |
| 19 | The culture of Physics has not changed greatly in recent years . |
| 20 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 21 | He has already done so in respect of civil non-matrimonial legal aid and is considering the responses to that . |
| 22 | The question of merging the two clubs has already arisen twice in the three years since Redbridge became tenants at Victoria Road . |
| 23 | Research which has investigated performance hierarchies in the school years has generally done so in terms of the performance of groups of learners . |
| 24 | If it is n't , he thought , then what I 'm going to do now is probably the most stupid thing any nome has ever done anywhere in the total history of nomekind . |
| 25 | Because each person is unique , and has experiences which no other person has ever had quite in that way or in that combination of circumstances , this learning can not be structured by teacher or syllabus or advisers from without , except possibly in certain exceptional situations where a sustained one-to-one relationship is possible or required . |
| 26 | It has always done well in bids made to the Research Councils . |
| 27 | But it has probably changed more in the last 40 years than at any other time . |
| 28 | Despite view to the contrary ( Tuxen , 1959 ) , this entognathous condition has probably evolved independently in the three groups concerned ( Manton , 1964 . ) |
| 29 | A single currency is also on the agenda because the balance of the economic argument has also swung sharply in its favour over the last decade , as Professor Michael Artis has pointed out ( 1 ) . |
| 30 | Gould , always a nimble tactician , has also moved leftwards in the course of his campaign . |