Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] in [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
2 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
3 | He kept in with the Soviets in case Moscow ever prevailed in Bucharest — plus the extra money he undoubtedly obtained . ’ |
4 | All in all , these , along with the changes in numbers and size of dendritic spines , are what one might expect if , when the chick pecks the bead and learns the association between the pecking and the bitter taste , there is a synaptic reorganization in IMHV and LPO to code for — or represent — this new association and the resulting change in behaviour — that is , to say ‘ do n't peck ’ instead of ‘ do peck ’ when the chick sees the bead a second time . |
5 | Now he is being invited to learn along with the children in Science , to admit ignorance ( he the headmaster ! ) , to reward discovery learning when neither he nor the children know the answer . |
6 | The Acts of Parliament , although applying to Scotland , use the English spelling , as do the various forms laid down in the Acts in connection with the representation at Westminster . |
7 | It could all come down to the doorsteps in Darlington . |
8 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
9 | Agricultural details were a nice reciprocal touch : the Hind helicopters , with which the Sandinistas were destroying the contras , had allegedly been shipped in by the Russians in crates labelled agricultural produce . |
10 | An all British quartet won through to the semi-finals in Week 1 with Southampton 's Chris Wilkinson ( currently on the brink of threatening the British number 1 spot ) , facing the young Laing Squad member Andrew Richardson , and Jeremy Bates who prepared to meet his Davis Cup team mate Danny Sapsford . |
11 | I 've had their photographs and prints faxed through to the police in Habane . |
12 | The State Department thus confirmed Macmillan 's recommendation that the Cossacks in 5 Corps area should be handed over to the Soviets in accordance with the Yalta agreement . |
13 | Few of us were aware of the feverish political and diplomatic manoeuvres going on behind the scenes in Britain and Australia . |
14 | The SEMI-finals were rounded off at the Woodlanders in Omagh . |
15 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
16 | The goodwill and excellent relations that Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell have built up with the authorities in Gran Canaria seem to be in the process of being matched in St Lucia : more and better facilities were planned for Rodney Bay Marina , parties were organised and funded , and a special ARC committee to deal with such things as restoring extinguished navigation lights and easing participants through customs formalities was set up and presided over by the Prime Minister of St Lucia . |
17 | Did the nobility , however , keep up with the changes in war taking place in this period ? |
18 | allow and they reckon that soft ones are better suited too sports because , because of the great action they 're harder to , to knock out , whereas soft ones er , have better other qualities , I 've got this little fucking book , book that I picked up in the Boots in Farnborough the other day yes , its quite interesting . |
19 | You want your audience doped up to the eyeballs in feelgood factor . |
20 | I mean I can take a form up to the porters in Goodricke and they 'll give me a key to a minibus . |
21 | Cranston tossed them a penny , and turned to watch as a woman condemned as a scold was led by a beadle up to the stocks in Tower Street , a steel brank fastened tightly around her head . |
22 | If you do venture by car on to the edge of Otmoor , there is the feeling that you will be unable to turn around in the narrow space between the dykes , or may get stuck up to the axles in mud . |
23 | ‘ The thinking is that everyone should be placid and passive , as if you can creep up to the polls in carpet slippers . |
24 | Scotland was kilt-deep in it ; it was up to the lorry-axles on Shap , up to the bus-steps in London . |
25 | It was a particular damp Autumn , before the advent of land drainage at Strawberry Fields and the snapshot albums shows us ( with all the children again ) wellies up to the knees in mud , lifting the teethes out of the quagmire with forks ! |
26 | Up to the eyes in snow , up to the toilet which was about twenty yards away , that was where lived then , in the house where Building Society is now , lived there for thirty four year . |
27 | But whatever its humble origins , when the new word was picked up by the newspapers in August 1898 it was quickly transformed into a term of more general notoriety , so that ‘ Hooligan ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ became the controlling words to describe troublesome youths who had previously been known more loosely as ‘ street arabs ’ , ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ roughs ’ . |
28 | Concocting any half-truth that suited some harebrained plan dreamed up by the spooks in Century House . |
29 | Demonstrations were also broken up by the police in Annaba , Constantine , Bordj Bou-Arreridj and Chlef . |
30 | Bernard Allway , 55 , voted Tory last time but swung to Labour early on in the hustings in protest at the poll tax and the economy . |