Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientific knowledge counts for little in comparison , for it is the field man in the great majority of encounters who is the ‘ front man ’ , the public face , of his agency ( Goffman , 1959 ) . |
| 2 | She adored Elizabeth , this good kind soul who had asked for little in return . |
| 3 | The certificate has counted for little in my appointment interviews , and I was repeatedly told after failing the interview that my research record was weak . |
| 4 | If any additional cost is applicable it will either be invoiced to you prior to departure or should be paid for locally in resort . |
| 5 | But the Pisan ordeal had shocked Pound into recovering a compassion and tenderness which we look for mostly in vain in the Pound of the years preceding . |
| 6 | If you have a telephone directory for somewhere in England , roughly how many people can you find in it with Welsh-sounding names like those of the famous Welsh rugby players ? |
| 7 | ‘ Apparently there was an open air illegal rave planned for somewhere in Portstewart . |
| 8 | It was my role to lead the squadron off and that night we were bound for somewhere in the Ruhr and we were on the short runway at Oakington . |
| 9 | NO doubt David Mellor , Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Conservative parliamentary candidate for somewhere in England , is promising the earth to all he meets . |
| 10 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 11 | A major business park , er a major manufacturer , a major distribution centre , erm with the consequences for perhaps in commuting and trans er transport movements . |
| 12 | Quite in command of herself , she smiled politely in the direction of the hysterical Kathleen , now throwing herself about alarmingly in her chair , waved to Ray , and took the shaken , but now well-behaved Flossie into the hall . |
| 13 | These were then collated and summarised by a planning group with copies made available for all in order to encourage further dialogue , debate and reflection at a second conversation the following evening . |
| 14 | But prophets rarely live comfortably for long in their own — or other people 's — company , and in 1965 Dylan horrified his faithful audience by selling out to commerce . |
| 15 | Such a purchaser would , in effect , buy a firm that he did not want to own for long in its present shape . |
| 16 | The use of a petrol block on a diesel engine is not a problem as the parts are exactly the same The problem is with the crankshaft The diesel unit is of forged steel and carries a ‘ D ’ stamped on the web of the crank The petrol version , whilst sharing exactly the same dimensions is marked P and it is made from cast iron and will not run for long in a diesel unit — as you have discovered Some military petrol engines however are fitted with the forged steel crank and these will fit and run in diesel units |
| 17 | Whether he was changing his job , dabbling in accommodation suitable for lodging houses or seeking a larger or smaller house to suit an expanding and then a contracting family , the silversmith-cum-general salesman-cum-lodging-house keeper-cum-commercial clerk-cum-clerk to a manufacturing jeweller-cum-collector to a goldsmith-cum-writing clerk never seemed to settle for long in one place . |
| 18 | Finally , it should be noted that high U/Pb does not survive for long in the convecting mantle ; otherwise the magnitude of Pb isotopic heterogeneity in basalts would be greatly increased . |
| 19 | This fantasy world of natural lust , ironically , can scarcely ever have been more closely realized than in the appalling conditions of the urban poor in the sordid back streets and alleys of prosperous Victorian cities ; but it could not , of course , be permitted to endure for long in the theoretical world . |
| 20 | But the sea was very rough and our little boat could not live for long in that wild water . |
| 21 | I doubt if he is a hard enough case to brazen it out for long in confinement . |
| 22 | No shaman was present to preside or to ask for God 's blessing upon Artai 's reign , Alexei saw , for it was a fact that there was no such thing as organised religion on this world , and even casual superstition was not permitted to interfere for long in the affairs of men . |
| 23 | If there 's another hole and the water swamps us , we will not survive for long in these icy waters . ’ |
| 24 | There was little hope that it would weigh for much in the balance of political life until then . |
| 25 | The loss of a significant relationship through death is , however , likely to be one that we have not been able to prepare for much in advance , and it is likely to be a loss that we do regret . |
| 26 | Subtle but damning variations of idiolect are unlikely to count for much in a country where people go around wearing tee-shirts inscribed with things like ‘ The essence of brave 's aerial adventure : the flight 's academy of the American east club with the traditional gallery of Great Britain diesel ’ . |
| 27 | But he proved , when he joined the illustrious band of Yorkshire bowlers to take 1000 wickets for the county , that experience and craftsmanship still count for much in a game which seems to reserve its greatest acclaim for the lean , young gunslingers . |
| 28 | The simple fact that it 's not an adequate form of research does n't count for much in the commercial field . |
| 29 | Wheeler , who in the past had been unprepared for much in life , was not leaving placement to chance . |
| 30 | The main thrust of their philosophical work , as it was carried through especially in Hume 's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ( 1748 ) and Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason ( 1781/7 ) , was to raise with a quite new sharpness the question of epistemology , of the character and basis of genuine knowledge and understanding . |