Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 2 | Primary elections are very popular with the television industry ; they make for good visuals , and they allow producers to focus ad infinitum on personalities rather than getting bogged down in the boring complexities of issues . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 4 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 5 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 6 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 7 | Their quarterly meetings were anodyne affairs , chaired by a genial buffer named George Mackie ( later Lord Mackie of Benshie ) , whose deliberations were too often bogged down in the drearier aspects of Liberal Party policy . |
| 8 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |
| 9 | Swiftly and almost silently she ran along in the darker shadows beneath the gable to the granary and from there to the dovecot . |
| 10 | They will want to know why the Government have decided to shove the Bill through in the final weeks of this Parliament . |
| 11 | Their own personalities come through in the different styles of writing and their different approaches . |
| 12 | from Kingston to Lynn to Yarmouth the coast was strewn with wrecked vessels , cliffs had slipped into the sea and disappeared into the brown tide and over in the low-lying lands of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire the salt-waters swished and groped where no man remembered ever to have seen them before . |
| 13 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 14 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 15 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 16 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 17 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |
| 18 | Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter . |
| 19 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 20 | So ad hoc multi-council boards , run by officials accountable to nobody in particular , had to be set up in the metropolitan areas after 1985 . |
| 21 | The work of the Faculty and its course programme are , for the convenience of potential students , broken up in the following pages into the three divisions of Accounting ; Business and Related Studies ; and Hotel and Catering Management ; each with its own introduction to the range of studies available . |
| 22 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 23 | Rather , the idea was to see people as simultaneously subject both to natural and instinctive drives while at the same time caught up in the various forms of culture and social relations which human societies construct in a more conscious way . |
| 24 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 25 | It means getting up in the early hours to be ready to board a coach at around 6.30am that will transport them to the South Coast , then bring them back again , arriving home at around midnight . |
| 26 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 27 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 28 | It is a medical fact that the body is at its lowest ebb between three and six in the morning and the ability to react , the ability to think when one is being woken up in the early hours of the morning erm are a consideration that we take into account when we have to mount an operation inside a premises . |
| 29 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |
| 30 | Attacks on the Beira corridor pipeline to Zimbabwe were stepped up in the early weeks of 1990 . |