Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I begin at the foot of the column and toil my way up the page to find each story unedifyingly summarized in inch-high type . |
| 2 | You can place a marker at the edge of the swim which , at forty yards or more range , is a tremendous aid to accurate casting and ensures that groundbait always goes in the same spot . |
| 3 | That industry probably started in nineteen seventy five with the diaries of Labour 's Richard Crossman . |
| 4 | It could n't have been Gloria , for Gloria knew that Dot always slept in her vest and knickers . |
| 5 | Even that future now seems in doubt |
| 6 | It is fair to say that this case probably resulted in one of the most important landmark decisions in the history of relations between the Association and the Banks . |
| 7 | Moreover , because SERPS provides the basis for the guaranteed minimum pension within occupational schemes , this measure also replicates in the private sector the disadvantage experienced by women in the public sector . |
| 8 | The contempt of death has its own body of literature , and in its way there is hardly anything that moves and inspires men with greater enthusiasm ; and this enthusiasm sometimes ends in ecstasy and the peak experience . |
| 9 | The eye-witness accounts of what happened in those few minutes naturally vary in many details , but one of the most reliable descriptions of the actual eruption of the cloud was that of Monsieur Roger Arnoux , a member of the Astronomical Society of France , who was observing from a vantage point well above and away from the town . |
| 10 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
| 11 | This provision now applies in the City of London only . |
| 12 | However , it is clear that some collocations only exist in particular inflected forms [ Schuetze , forthcoming ] . |
| 13 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 14 | This rule clearly applies in the case of a non-delivery . |
| 15 | This guidance often comes in the form of impulses to do this or that — to write to a friend , to read a certain book , to meditate , to go to a meeting , to buy some flowers , to sign up for an evening class . |
| 16 | With this intention firmly planted in her mind , she headed for the back stairs leading down into the kitchens . |
| 17 | But you always have this figure certainly slapped in your mind . |
| 18 | This practice still occurs in places . |
| 19 | The remnants of this practice still exist in the form of the viva voce , where a student 's work is assessed by examiners . |
| 20 | There was some mail neatly stacked in front of the telephone . |
| 21 | Some manufacturers now indicate in their instructions if their dishwashers , toasters or irons can be left switched on when you 're not around . |
| 22 | This philosophy obviously works in some cases when it is an established function like an accountant . |
| 23 | But this separation still continued in the cases to which the statute did not apply — e.g. if the trustee had active duties to perform , or if he was possessed , not of a freehold , but of chattels real or personal to another 's use . |
| 24 | If or when there is need to do so , we may represent assignment of equation by a double arrow and we have an example of this type already seen in ( 33 ) above . |
| 25 | In relation to the instances of prosecutable deviance which come to light , few pollutions even result in the initiation of the formal process by the taking of a statutory sample ; rarely do they end up in court with conviction , sanction , and the attendant publicity in the local newspaper ( see ch. 9 , s.i ) . |
| 26 | This organism often grows in low numbers , and many laboratories still regard it as a contaminant . |
| 27 | Ungar placed rats in a start box which opened onto a lighted arena with a dark compartment in one corner , and shocked the animals electrically when they attempted to enter the dark compartment ; this punishment rapidly resulted in the animals refusing to enter the dark box . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , decentralisation of this sort usually results in regional structures which duplicate the former national structure : bureaucracy in the same form , but on a smaller scale . |
| 29 | [ A. Simmonds , ‘ Mr Cox of Cox 's Orange Pippin' , Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society , vol. lxviii , 1943 , pp. 347–9 ; this article also appears in A. Simmonds , A Horticultural Who Was Who , 1948 , pp. 11–16 . ] |
| 30 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |