Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Graeme Souness 's men take on Middlesbrough in an attempt to recover from their midweek European exit , Barnes will spend his 29th birthday bidding to resurrect his personal fortunes at the club 's training ground . |
| 2 | Coventry , flying high , take on Spurs in a live TV game tomorrow night at Highfield Road . |
| 3 | Before it is through , Pound 's centenary year will bring on indigestion in even the most devoted Poundians . |
| 4 | But with a global audience of 340m Spanish speakers — who are getting richer by the day — there are plenty of rivals raring to take on Televisa in Mexico and elsewhere . |
| 5 | Suffolk County Schools under-19 A side take on Sussex in the semi-finals of the Corinthian Casuals Cup at Diss FC tonight ( ko 7pm ) . |
| 6 | The goal of tolerance and mutual respect is not one , all-embracing religion , but rather unity in diversity . |
| 7 | In order to circumvent this bias to some extent , let us first burrow beneath this middle level to look at grass-roots religious sentiment which for the most part in 1922 escaped party supervision , since the latter was restricted geographically to the larger centres of habitation and their immediate hinterland . |
| 8 | Constructed for the most part in terms of a technology that was , by comparison with the main technologies of the nineteenth century , primitive and unsystematic , there were few really significant improvements to them through the century and by 1900 they provided no semblance of a genuine transport service . |
| 9 | The money to set up these trusts is to be supplied by industry , and the schools are to be founded for the most part in inner cities , and are to be technological in character . |
| 10 | During the 1860s the energy of the radicals was absorbed for the most part in rebellion against the values and conventions of the educated world from which they sprang . |
| 11 | Actively employed at sea for nearly twenty years , for the most part in Far Eastern seas which can legitimately be called romantic , Conrad had no need to add extra colour to his raw material , nor did he have to go beyond fact to find episodes , incidents and nuggets of action to transfer to fiction . |
| 12 | She dresses for the most part in a pink frilly fairy costume in which she walks down to the beach , paints , dances and collects snails . |
| 13 | Only a few days after the conclusion of the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , held for the most part in Spain , itself a highly symbolic act of political and cultural allegiance to the Republican cause , Nizan was deeply shocked to learn of the tragic and unforeseen death of Gerda Taro , a young female photographer working for Ce Soir at the battle front near Brunete . |
| 14 | Although , as has been argued already , the significance of the 1934 Congress is to be located in its general guiding principles rather than in specific theories , it is nonetheless worthwhile examining briefly the substance of the 1934 debate not only because it sets out the agenda for a detailed discussion of socialist realism , but also because Nizan 's second novel , Le Cheval de Troie , was produced , for the most part in the Soviet Union during 1934 in the shadow of the Congress itself . |
| 15 | It may even have been envisaged that the holder of the office would act as , in some sense , chief adviser to the sultan on matters pertaining to the sacred law , although a point to be noted in this connection is that both Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan lived in Bursa while the sultan resided for the most part in Edirne . |
| 16 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 17 | It was a fast journey , and accomplished for the most part in silence , although Rohan did point out the entrance to the Château de Biron , as they flashed past . |
| 18 | In May 1990 Cape Verde joined the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) in a move designed to encourage investment from the estimated 600,000 expatriate Cape Verdeans living for the most part in the USA and Europe . |
| 19 | There are regions of space , and for the most part in these dense clouds between the stars , that have temperatures perhaps ten degrees above absolute zero , maybe as much as fifty degrees above absolute zero , so that 's about minus two hundred and fifty degrees centigrade . |
| 20 | But what is for the most part in these stories a quiet desperation , is achieved at the cost of suppressing part of his own awareness , part of his own truth , and how bad that was we begin to see with The Portrait . |
| 21 | Its modest signboard denotes maps and books , mostly maps in fact , and the stranger may well be surprised to find , within such small premises , detailed town plans of distant communities and regional maps of many parts of the USA . |
| 22 | Eventually GCCS in London and Singapore was in a position to read all Japanese naval signals , right up to the attack on Pearl Harbor , although Churchill carefully kept this information from the Americans . |
| 23 | It has been argued that the space time we inhabit is a Riemann space , and that locally space–time in free fall is the space time of special relativity . |
| 24 | NORTHERN Ireland players Nigel Worthington and Stephen Morrow will go into the history books when Sheffield Wednesday take on Arsenal in next month 's Coca-Cola final . |
| 25 | Those who have laboured long at programmed learning sequences , even if less wholeheartedly multi-media in scope , will agree that such units take time to prepare . |
| 26 | Falls on Wall Street had a knock on effect in London and by the close , the Footsie one hundred was down eighteen point three at two O eight three point six . |
| 27 | Men and women both tend to put on weight in middle-age , when exercise becomes less frequent . |
| 28 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 29 | Upholstery became a separate trade , and seating began to put on weight in consequence . |
| 30 | Anna 's put on weight in her face , has n't she ? |