Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 2 | The experimental subjects acquired the CR only slowly when trained in context A , the context in which the light had been presented during the first stage of habituation training . |
| 3 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 4 | The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude . |
| 5 | Much better than sitting in pubs with young girls or even drinking with one 's colleagues , the hastily snatched pint of bitter before they caught their trains home to their wives . |
| 6 | Calm water : Mushroom anemones seem to fare much better if placed in quiet areas of the tank , where the current is n't strong enough to actually move the disc of the polyp . |
| 7 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |
| 8 | It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence . |
| 9 | Not many viewers can have realised that this was a deft parody of the catastrophic visit of Mike 's ‘ uni-mates ’ a week or so ago that ended in Bron cruelly dumping him just before his psychology exam . |
| 10 | The anemones will prefer being planted in full sun , as their flowers do n't open so well when put in a shady position . |
| 11 | So it 's not surprising that toddlers act so explosively when placed in a strange situation . |
| 12 | Saying that is , unfortunately , much easier than calculating in hard cash terms exactly what you have lost . |
| 13 | We all sat down together again and chatted in general about falconry , and in particular about equipment and how to put it on correctly ; how to hold the bird properly ; different methods of training a bird ; the various illnesses and complaints they suffer from and how to cure them ; and simply how to take good care of birds . |
| 14 | She walked slowly downstairs and sat in her own armchair beside the sitting room window . |
| 15 | He wanted to get away somewhere and think in peace , but experience had taught him that it would have achieved nothing because he was incapable of sustained logical thought . |
| 16 | Similarly , a motherless Glasgow soldier 's daughter was taken in by her grandparents and brought up with the help of an aunt , who married soon after but stayed in the same home . |
| 17 | Iris was already up and splashing in the bath . |
| 18 | A French subsidiary which does some development is already up and running in Paris with 12 employees — a German operation will follow . |
| 19 | The enemy was three hundred yards away now and marching in a column of four ranks . |
| 20 | He ran away as a teenager , got caught , ran away again and settled in Detroit . |
| 21 | On the outbreak of the second Dutch war in 1664 Stokes was recalled to the navy as captain of the Triumph , but he fell ill soon afterwards and died in Portsmouth 11 February 1665 . |
| 22 | They seem to run more smoothly and quickly together when reading in comparison to the heaviness of the first part . |
| 23 | In many respects the issue has provided the main vehicle for articulating a series of debates about how the state , via its social workers , responds to the needs of children more generally and intervenes in the private sphere of the family in particular ( Parton , 1985 ; Frost , 1989 ) . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 25 | Pierre Beregovoy , the Finance Minister , told a business meeting : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 26 | When returning the book the card is signed once more and replaced in the book . |
| 27 | At the Battle of Stirling Bridge , he took the field against Wallace but , when he saw how the battle was proceeding , changed sides once more and shared in the Scottish victory . |
| 28 | During the week I 'd get home late and sleep in the spare room — ‘ so as not to disturb her ’ . |
| 29 | But there is one redeeming feature : directly ahead and growing in stature with every stride or turn of the wheels , is the serrated and exciting skyline of An Teallach , a mountain supreme . |
| 30 | At the halfway stage in the backswing , the left wrist should be facing straight outwards as shown in the main illustration above . |