Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a claim comes in in the normal sequence of events and our adjudicating officers are asked to adjudicate , that is one matter . |
| 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 | It was still widely agreed that , as laid down in the papal ranking of 1504 , the Holy Roman Emperor came first of all secular rulers , and this pre-eminence all emperors jealously guarded : it was only after considerable resistance that Ferdinand III ( 1637 – 57 ) agreed to address Louis XIV as " Majesté Royale " . |
| 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 | in Poultry , City of London : it was burned down in the Great Fire of 1666 , and subsequently rebuilt . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 8 | As a result , they spend much of their time sitting down in the thick layer of muck which can inflict burns to their hocks and breasts , and they may also develop ulcerated feet . |
| 9 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |
| 10 | A kindergarten housing asylum-seeking refugees was burned down in the northern city of Greifswald . |
| 11 | Down in the sun-filtered green of it were mossy , flat-surfaced rocks , bracken , and a dew pond . |
| 12 | The Lions have their best chance of winning a Test in this opening fixture as the All Blacks can be expected to hone their act by the time the Wellington and Auckland Tests come along in the final week of the tour . |
| 13 | They will want to know why the Government have decided to shove the Bill through in the final weeks of this Parliament . |
| 14 | Mace believes those copyright and interface issues are now being worked through in the current round of legal skirmishes between Intel Corp and its iAPX-86 impersonators such as Advanced Micro Devices . |
| 15 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 16 | Their own personalities come through in the different styles of writing and their different approaches . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And newcomer Lesley Ottery , formerly with PowerGen , has taken over in the newly-created post of Director of Information Systems . |
| 19 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 20 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 21 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 22 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |
| 23 | ‘ Speaking generally , ’ Bray wrote in Boy Labour and Apprenticeship ( 1911 ) , ‘ the city-bred youth is growing up in a state of unrestrained liberty ’ , and describing how ‘ the habits of school and home are rapidly sloughed off in the new life of irresponsible freedom ’ he agreed that ‘ the large amount of money he has to spend on himself is by no means an unmixed benefit ’ . |
| 24 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 25 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 26 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 29 | Like slipping away from a sleeping embrace , silently shutting the door behind one , tiptoeing off in the grey light of dawn — a stranger again . |
| 30 | Tips for success : apply strips of wax to the hair , then strip off in the opposite direction of hair growth . |