Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
| 2 | Hence , the person who used the sulk response successfully in the past will continue to use it , because it worked . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a change somewhere in the east . |
| 4 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 5 | 4 Check all spellings , titles etc. in both releases and captions . |
| 6 | Our education programme changes attitudes slowly in an environment where selfish values grow even faster . |
| 7 | There are better things to spend the money on in Liverpool . |
| 8 | Tantalisingly , at night , I might hear the plaintive hoot of a tawny owl somewhere in the trees , beyond my little world . |
| 9 | On this occasion we were sitting late at night in a small park somewhere in Madrid . |
| 10 | Not only are the proposals right in themselves , but many of them might win support at Maastricht . |
| 11 | Among the cities most in danger around the world are : * Bangkok , which faces a sea level rise of six feet by 2010 ; * Shanghai , also threatened by a six feet rise , coupled with the danger that salt water would advance 40 miles up the Yangtze River , causing severe drinking water shortages ; * Hong Kong , where seas may engulf newly-reclaimed coastal land , and an increased frequency of typhoons , due to climate disruption , threaten the whole territory ; * Alexandria — the whole city " may disappear " unless major defence works are undertaken ; * Tokyo , which will need £40 billion of flood defences in order to protect new suburbs ; * Rio de Janeiro , whose tourist beaches and nearby coastal villages are in danger ; * London , where there is concern that the existing Thames flood barrier may prove insufficient . |
| 12 | He has paired replacement Lloyd Walker with Jason Little in the centres against Neath . |
| 13 | But if it does n't hold , at the very end what they 'll do is break in on it ‘ and now the special report from Dan Rather in Baghdad , and then you see Dan Rather and when he 's done there 's a commercial and then it goes back to whatever they were doing on tape . |
| 14 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 15 | The Rangers defence failed to deal with cross balls all day , and it was inevitable the home side should use that route successfully in taking the lead after just 12 minutes . |
| 16 | The Rangers defence failed to deal with cross balls all day , and it was inevitable the home side should use that route successfully in taking the lead after just 12 minutes . |
| 17 | Recent surveys suggest that these are the foreign languages at present most in demand by employers . |
| 18 | who the hell you think you are I 've got a good mind to put your beard right in this food |
| 19 | In Market Weighton , East Yorkshire , there is a markstone right in the middle of the town , opposite the church , and in Pembridge , Herefordshire , Watkins found a markstone next to the market house . |
| 20 | It is easy to imagine how the early inhabitants of the Middle Fast , and in particular the ancient Egyptians , could have converted this African race into a domestic partner and there is little doubt that this is what occurred , with the more northerly European form being left out of the story altogether in the initial stages . |
| 21 | We must use every opportunity to present our skills effectively in our expanded marketplace and convey to customers that GROVE PROJECTS can work with them to create cost-effective facilities which will improve efficiencies , lower costs and ad value . |
| 22 | This family would probably end up in a concentration camp somewhere in Germany . |
| 23 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 24 | The horse can move its lower jaw from side to side when eating , and the jaw muscles drag the lower teeth inward in a grinding motion . |
| 25 | Another writer with a far briefer experience of life under sail , John Masefield , stands by contrast right in the centre of the convention of action and narrative in which the glory of adventure-story lies ; for at least one period of his life Masefield would have agreed , as Conrad would not , that he was a ‘ writer of sea-stories ’ . |
| 26 | Since the unity pact , which healed the rift between ZANU and ZAPU ( with its political base predominantly in Matabeleland ) , development funds have been flowing in , but education and all other aspects of services and development have still to recover , especially in sparsely populated rural districts . |
| 27 | Let's see if England can win four Triple Crowns in a row and win six Five Nations titles outright in the next decade . |
| 28 | Before an opportunity is actually found there is usually a preliminary sense that there is an opportunity somewhere in the area . |
| 29 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 30 | Meanwhile I found other knitting groups right in ‘ my ’ province and took Arune with me to talk with the other women in it in the hope that they could answer the questions that I could n't . |