Example sentences of "[coord] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But no blows were struck then , or in the similar crises of 1051 and 1052 , when Edward the Confessor first secured the expulsion and then accepted the return of the powerful Godwin family . |
2 | The ways in which the various tools are used are described here or in the various chapters throughout the book — cutting and bending pipe , for example , in Chapter 2 ; the correct way to use an immersion heater spanner in Chapter 4 . |
3 | For example , agricultural production might be organised on the basis of the master-slave relationship , as in Ancient Rome or in the southern states of the USA , or based on the lord serf relationship , as in feudal Europe , or on the capitalist-proletarian relationship , as in modern Western societies . |
4 | ‘ I know all the King 's spies and agents , whether they be working in the court of Castille or in the Papal Chambers in Rome . |
5 | As many of the battles with the Hunters were either fought on inhospitable and barren asteroids or in the upper atmospheres of colonial planets , both pieces of knowledge were essential for survival . |
6 | This is very unusual , for most livebearers normally have fry during the night , or in the early hours of the morning . |
7 | Return will be on Sunday , 2 May , late evening or in the early hours of Monday morning . |
8 | ‘ They come in the night or in the early hours of the morning , ’ Bimal told me . |
9 | He said someone who was in the area last Friday night or in the early hours of Saturday must have seen the two attackers . |
10 | The GEP is aimed at individuals with a viable business project that may be at the planning stage or in the early stages of trading . |
11 | ‘ When I was at university , doing my professional training or in the early years of practice , I always worked with women women solicitors , women bankers and so on . |
12 | They were written either while he was on solo trips to London or elsewhere , or in the early days of the war when he was in the RAF . |
13 | But any economy that was made or in the early days of Hector 's er business , I know , was always saving material rather than time . |
14 | Scattered villages house people who work at the power station , or in the nearby towns of Bridgwater and Taunton . |
15 | The sources that ISO will be investigating will generally be clouds of dust in space , with temperatures from a few hundred degrees down to only 30 K. The warmer dust clouds are found close to stars , either in dark nebulae adjacent to stars that have just formed , or in the ejected shells of matter from old stars , called planetary nebulae . |
16 | At the meetings called in different villages , some proposed a raid on the Rebecca , as the new sloop was called ; others planned to murder the guards in the food stores behind the stockade at Belmont and set them on fire ; but when Dulé and his companions sailed in from Oualie to discuss the best strategy , they suggested slow , persistent attrition : waylaying the occasional soldier or watch outside the compound , or in the sturdy dwellings of the English leaders , until the islanders had accumulated at least twenty guns , as well as the necessary tackle to go with them , the gunpowder kegs and pouches for shot , the ramrods to load the barrels . |
17 | Wherever the records of mankind 's history and prehistory are to be found , whether in the ancient and strangely charactered , but nevertheless understandable by the learned , writings of bygone civilisations , or in the numerous findings of decades of archaeological investigations into the past history of human life , there is always evidence of belief in some form of ‘ god ’ . |
18 | His recreational hours were invariably spent either driving at great speed down country lanes or in the public bars of Herefordshire , engaged in uncomplicated conversations with local farmers . |
19 | This is the conclusion which many , approaching by this or similar routes , have come to see as inevitable , after the successive failures to prove that principles of conduct can be grounded in the existence of God , or in Kant 's Categorical Imperative validated a priori like ‘ two and two make four ’ , or in the biological facts of evolution or the psychological facts of human needs . |
20 | in respect of which the trial judge was bound by a decision of the Court of Appeal or House of Lords and which in either case was fully considered by the trial judge or in the previous decisions by which the trial judge was bound ; and |
21 | There comes a time when it is not in the best interests of the Company nor in the best interests of the employed for him or her to be protected in any way from the full consequences of addictive disease . |
22 | As the LSCA put it : ‘ If the momentum of consultation and communication is not maintained , members will not have confidence in the leaders of the Institute nor in the future proposals for financing its activities . ’ |
23 | The roles of government and state are viewed neither in the negative terms of Mrs Thatcher nor in the positive terms of Labour 's left wing . |
24 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
25 | Myenteric plexuses often participate in familial amyloid polyneuropathy and in a few cases with AL and AA . |
26 | In the villages without supplies water for all domestic purposes is fetched from springs , from wells and in a few cases from streams . |
27 | Sussex heathlands occur on the Lower Greensand in the west and north-west of the county , in the central area of the High Weald on the Hastings Beds , and in a few places on the Downs where there are superficial deposits of acidic soils . |
28 | During this time people briefly took to the streets in Lusaka and in the provincial towns of Mufulira , Ndola and Kitwe , before Luchembe was arrested by troops loyal to the government . |
29 | And in the Belgian ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge there 's an exotic range of chocolates to tempt any shoppers . |
30 | In common with other taxpayers , and in the best interests of all parties , I believe the time is long overdue for impartiality to be compelled upon this publicly funded corporation . |