Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the last allegation is regarded with some scepticism by royal watchers , their speculation is heightened because the royal couple have barely been seen to exchange words or glances so far in the tour , even though they have been smiling and cheerful to those they have met . |
| 2 | You may be limited by the hours the crêche is open as not all remain open in the evening , or begin early enough in the morning . |
| 3 | On a slope high above Wigtown Bay in Dumfries and Galloway , nearly always fretted by a breeze or whistling more stridently in the wind , is an especially fine duo of 5,000-year-old tombs called Cairnholy . |
| 4 | The weight is the one that goes up there in the Y direction . |
| 5 | Of all the cities in the north , Milan was the one that expanded most rapidly in the period up to 1100 . |
| 6 | Illuminate flowers and foliage that show up well in the dark . |
| 7 | Sadly not , as I had thought , a record by King Beer called ‘ Animals That Swim ’ , ‘ King Beer ’ is a slow sort of talking ballad that sounds like a posh Jonathan Richman having a muse and a chorus that arrives very late in the song indeed . |
| 8 | But it is not necessary to share Herbert Casson 's breathless enthusiasms , or to reach point-by-point agreement with his educational philosophy , to recognise the quite different moral emphasis that shows through repeatedly in the writings of pre-war youth workers and educationalists : an emphasis which saw youthful energy and also youthful misconduct as the spark of life , rather than the death-knell of the old traditions . |
| 9 | Stop that sniggering down there in the typing pool — what do you suppose the spellchecker in Microsoft Corp 's Word word processor suggests when it comes to Pentium and does n't recognise it ? |
| 10 | The days of the truly great power portrait , the majestic Victorian and Edwardian canvases that hang so solemnly in the darker corridors of the National Portrait Gallery , have long since gone . |
| 11 | These groups are the boys ' gangs that flourish most conspicuously in the ‘ delinquent neighbourhoods ’ of our large American cities . |
| 12 | It then fluctuated around that level until 1973 , although rising quite sharply in the 1971–2 recession ( chapter 12 ) . |
| 13 | Before I went through the door , I looked back — at all the life that existed only here in the Star Zoo , and in no other place in all the Galaxy ! |
| 14 | Japanese economic competition was feared , although the anxiety was based more on memories of competition in the 1930s than the new competition that developed so vigorously in the 1960s . |
| 15 | The sun was a great cauldron of red , painting the edges of clouds that swung round ponderously in the sky like a child 's mobile . |
| 16 | Lawrence Kasdan returns to the ensemble formula that worked so well in The Big Chill in a film that puts contemporary Los Angeles under the spotlight . |
| 17 | It was the kind of day that worms deep down in the earth , drown and float to the surface . |
| 18 | Extra Dry Sparkling Wine £6.90 Very pale in colour with a dry delicate flavour that disappeared quite quickly in the mouth . |
| 19 | ‘ They 'll know all about you , of course , but Peter Jennings thinks they 'd rather have you out of the country than poking about up in the north . |
| 20 | NOBODY is sure of the distance to Betelgeuse , the red giant star that shines so brilliantly in the constellation of Orion . |
| 21 | We are grateful for imaginative erm ideas that come up anywhere in the Council and we do consider them , but on reflection this seemed not one that was worth pursuing in Oxford . |
| 22 | But how many other crimes are based on bigotry that is unspoken , or go accompanied by racial taunts that come out merely in the heat of the moment ? |
| 23 | Because they had been confused and upset early on in the campaign they found it hard to relax and trust us . |
| 24 | The force of the blow pushed them apart , and they arrived at opposite walls simultaneously , kicked again , and met once more in the centre . |
| 25 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 26 | If there is a tendency for grains to become charged and leap about disconcertingly in the beam , a dried aqueous grain suspension usually has sufficient adhesion . |
| 27 | Walked through the forest and came out right in the colliery yard . |
| 28 | We went to the concert by bus , and Bob was left in New York ( he had collapsed while jogging in Central Park ) and came along later in the day . |
| 29 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 30 | I made some Tommy-sized bets and ate very well in the ( literally ) below-stairs bar , and in general walked around , race-card in hand , binoculars around neck , exactly as usual . |