Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 2 | Dissent in the county nonetheless survived powerfully through the eighteenth century in the persons of Phillip Doddridge and his followers . |
| 3 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 4 | To see the relevance of this , it is first necessary to know a little about the various ways in which genes are arranged in organisms . |
| 5 | The problem was to find exports with which to pay for it ; English woollens and iron products were not luxurious enough for the ruling class in India and were far too expensive for the vast majority of the population . |
| 6 | Do n't worry too much about the occasional hiccup in your emotional state — it is the repetitive pattern we are looking for . |
| 7 | I was in great pain , and suddenly for the first time in my life , I forgot my fear of John Reed . |
| 8 | The collection of essays edited by Joyce ( 1987 ) is an important contribution to the history of work , not only for the satisfying ways in which it challenges orthodoxy about the social and political role of work , but also for its advocacy of the need to rethink work as a social construct . |
| 9 | Though Booth 's study did produce categories of poverty which showed that many people who were in employment were still below the poverty line , and Rowntree 's work was memorable , not only for the detailed way in which he examined the financial needs of households , but also for his concepts of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ poverty and the ‘ poverty cycle ’ . |
| 10 | Each time Celia re-entered the clinic he could not deny a feeling of overwhelming relief , although he still tried to spend at least one night at home mid-week , if only for the brief half-hour in the morning , which he was able to devote to Harry . |
| 11 | Only for the sickening leap in the throat , the feeling of being frozen in the moment of falling . |
| 12 | This use of Shakespeare , the central figure of Anglo-Saxon culture , stresses that the poem is not only about the cultural change in Venice , but about that at the heart of our own language and culture also . |
| 13 | The Dale , perhaps for the only time in its short life , was full . |
| 14 | He wanted to bask in the developing closeness he and Jordan were enjoying , surfing sensorial highs , and being utterly open , perhaps for the first time in his life . |
| 15 | Students are more than likely having to cope , perhaps for the first time in their lives , with a threateningly high level of conspicuous and recurrent failure , and the way they cope with anxiety will play a large part in determining what kind of a fist they make of it . |
| 16 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 17 | And I heard enough about the grisly ways in which he like to make sure his questions were answered . |
| 18 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 19 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 20 | Perdita was in such a good mood that she and Daisy actually had supper together for the first time in months . |
| 21 | The Swedes , at No. 16 with Dancing Queen are working together for the first time in seven years . |
| 22 | He made the effort to say something pleasant to his wife and they drank a glass of wine together for the first time in weeks . |
| 23 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 24 | From a wizened dried up body which was buried in the sand some 5000 years ago to the amazing unwrapped mummy of Ramses the Great , one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs , Mummies and Magic has recreated and brought together for the first time in one exhibition , some of the most important Royal Mummies and funerary treasures . |
| 25 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 26 | But he declined to say whether the inspectors — two teams acting together for the first time in Iraq — had found any of the Scud missiles the United Nations thinks Iraq is hiding . |
| 27 | It 's probably harmless , even pleasantly nutty , and Brand makes a living out of them but there 's another side to his business : the school attracts more than its share of gays , especially for the residential courses in the summer . ’ |
| 28 | Lady Grace bridal gowns from Sposa Bella Manufacturing Ltd are designed and made especially for the larger bride in sizes 18–30 . |
| 29 | Perhaps after the hot food in the evening ? |
| 30 | Often the males moult in flocks separately from the females , and only after the second moult in autumn do they regain their finery and again join up with their wives . |