Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | John Mackinnon , who did much of the pioneer fieldwork on orangs and gives an entertaining account of his studies in In Search of the Red Ape , theorizes that the early orangs ranged the ground in large bands like gorillas , protected by their giant males . |
| 2 | The number of injuries is actually going down in proportion to the increased number of skiers . |
| 3 | In a statement issued on March 24 the CCDFG argued that the constitution was too complex a document to be subjected solely to a referendum , and called for the PNDC government to step down in favour of a national transitional government . |
| 4 | The signal for the collapse of the regime was Mr Najibullah 's announcement last month that he was ready to step down in favour of a United Nations-appointed interim committee . |
| 5 | It was reported on March 14 that all military exercises were soon to be scaled down in response to the diminishing threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 6 | Population regulation , however , if it has any advantage at all , can only be a long-term one ; it must therefore be a consequence of individual decisions to emigrate , taken on the grounds that conditions will be better elsewhere , not on the grounds that the population level must be kept down in order for the local resources to be conserved . |
| 7 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 8 | The film is bogged down in exposition for the first hour , remains plodding , and shifts uncertainly between protagonists . |
| 9 | Five minutes before kick-off , Leicester goalkeeper Carl Muggleton went down in agony with a slipped disc and Hoult was ordered from the stand , where he was eating a hot dog . |
| 10 | The boat hull and light aluminium masks and white roller jibs have to come down in tone to a light grey , and the varnished wood spars have to be darker ochre than those at the top . |
| 11 | I do n't want to go down in history as a great songwriter because I died penniless . |
| 12 | Lewis , 31 , went on : ‘ Linford 's name will go down in history as a well-deserved Olympic title-holder . |
| 13 | He was the husband of the first woman Prime Minister , but he will go down in history as a wise adviser and a kind man . |
| 14 | It took some time for all the records to be checked , but it 's now agreed that IBM Corp 's full year net loss for 1992 of $4,965m goes down in history as the largest corporate loss on record , taking the baton from General Motors Corp . |
| 15 | The 1978 World Cup campaign in Argentina will go down in history as the absolute nadir of Scottish football . |
| 16 | Or shall I go down in history as the High Queen who lost Tara for always ? |
| 17 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside the other greats . |
| 18 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |
| 19 | I was told that in the early days of tape , three weeks ' work in Europe was wiped when , as the White Cliffs of Dover came into sight , the bag containing them was put down in front of the rotating aerial . |
| 20 | but it falls down in front of the unexpected , when you actually do see things for the first time . |
| 21 | Stitching teats puts a Vet in the ideal position to be kicked , with his head low down in front of the hind feet , but there was no danger with Blossom . |
| 22 | Pricing criteria were first laid down in detail in the 1967 ( second ) White Paper — prices should be related to ( long-run ) marginal costs , without arbitrary cross-subsidization , but should be sufficient to cover full accounting costs including the opportunity cost of capital . |
| 23 | The crackle of the smooth white sheets , already turned down in readiness on the immaculate bed . |
| 24 | But most of that property has come onto the market now , which in any event is steeply down in value from the heady days of the late 1980s . |
| 25 | In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities . |
| 26 | One corner of her mouth pulled down in acceptance of the irrelevant . |
| 27 | The right politician must be put in charge of the Treasury to bring the economy back to even keel , reduce the trade deficit and force both inflation and interest rates down in time for the next election . |
| 28 | Also out and about this week were THE PRIMITIVES and CHAPTERHOUSE who were spotted at THE POETS gig tapping their beer bottles along in time to the swell up-and-coming sounds emanating stageside . |
| 29 | They had n't arrived yet , because they had been held up in the traffic , but they would be along in time for an early lunch . |
| 30 | We arrived in Swansea locks at about 1800 , and were locking through in company with a small Channel Island registered coaster when a local officer passed a message down to us . |