Example sentences of "[adv prt] of a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the submission of Mr. Collins ignores the fact that , since an injunction may be granted in an emergency to restrain an infringement of the law , for example the cutting down of a tree in breach of a tree preservation order ( see , e.g. , Newport Borough Council v. Khan ( Sabz Ali ) [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 1185 ) , it may well be impossible in such circumstances to resolve the issue of a possible defence on the application for an interlocutory injunction . |
| 2 | Although Newton did not hinder the setting up of a programme in animal morphology under Balfour , he was suspicious of the laboratory-based discipline and played an important role in galvanizing the country 's amateur bird-watchers to form a network that could provide information of real scientific value . |
| 3 | They were just about to move away when a big estate car eased out of a space in front of them and Stuart 's Mum parked with a grateful wave to the driver . |
| 4 | Tom Sneva , a former winner of the Indianapolis 500 but out of a drive in CART racing this year , entered the Formula 3 support race at Phoenix . |
| 5 | A crisis tends to arise out of a deterioration in health , or even the death of a carer , spouse or relative . |
| 6 | They sped down the warm evening pavement for about fifty yards and then pulled up as an elderly man , walking his dog , came out of a driveway in front of them . |
| 7 | Pilot David Moore , 47 , of Downend Horsley , Glos , was flying too low to pull out of a loop in front of horrified crowds , the South Manchester coroner heard . |
| 8 | He smoked a lot which hit the hard-worked lungs while the boils surged up out of a weakness in nutrition which , together with the ill-starred Jenkins bones , augured ill for long life and clean living . |
| 9 | He was interviewed by Menzies — still as the deputy — in the second week of September , and taken out of a class in pistol shooting for the occasion . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't feel I am doing an Englishman out of a place in front of 54,000 in one of the great matches of the rugby calendar . |
| 11 | But Eliot emphasized that Johnson , unaware that such distinctions grew out of a difference in ritual , had been ignorant of their importance for the Greeks . |
| 12 | His own , now saccharine and anecdotal about the good old days of his childhood , when he had in fact eaten pilchards with a fork out of a tin in silence , day after day , whilst she slept . |
| 13 | In a case involving a sum of money the property of a foreign state and whether it is proper that it should be paid to a firm of solicitors whose authority to act on behalf of that state is in question , the court should , with the assistance of an amicus if necessary , decline to make an order for the payment out of a sum in court to a firm of solicitors without being satisfied of the authority of that firm of solicitors . |
| 14 | ‘ We had a long talk when we had dinner together , ’ Haverford said out of a silence in respect of the dead . |
| 15 | One had slipped out of an alley in front of him ; he saw the glint of a knife . |