Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] in the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many parents and teachers back down in the face of a massive tantrum . |
| 2 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 3 | What the hell was that kiss about in the middle of all this ? |
| 4 | These military and familial idealised images of cooperation and conflict , then , break down in the face of current realities so there has to be another metaphor which can both explain and inform behaviour when conflicts or interests arise between management and work force . |
| 5 | The few planetaries bright enough to be seen with binoculars show up in the guise of dim , ill-defined stars . |
| 6 | The fact that so many of hierarchy 's problems show up in the form of individual misbehavior has led to one of the most widespread illusions in business , namely that a company 's managerial leadership can be significantly improved solely by doing psychotherapeutic work on the personalities and attitudes of its managers . |
| 7 | We developed this very useful paddle stroke back in the days of long four metre GP kayaks . |
| 8 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 9 | It gives Boles his " She helped him in his cruel games " and the Borough its " Speak out in the name of the Lord " , one of those superb unison ejaculations which will always send shivers down the spine of anyone who hates and fears mob agreement on any subject whatever . |
| 10 | But face down in the middle of the floor there lay the body of a man . |
| 11 | Face down in the middle of the floor there lay the body of a man . |
| 12 | ‘ Landing face down in the bottom of a boat would hardly be the way to win the heart of the woman you love . |
| 13 | And there , as he ( Tethra ) lay face down in the lee of an upturned boat , … he let his thinking catch up with him . |
| 14 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 15 | Houses run up in the courts of Birmingham in the 1820s and 1830s cost – ; 60 each to build . |
| 16 | I stand up in the entrance of my bower , still in shadow . |
| 17 | And although Harris and Puddle were both run out in the space of 21 runs , there were no more hiccups as Wales swept to their first win over Dorset in six seasons . |
| 18 | Pray to your God and anyone else you know that you never land up in the power of Fitzosbert , in one of those Godforsaken cells ! ’ |
| 19 | These principles expand upon the basic standards set down in the rules of Conduct and indicate the standards which members should seek to achieve in the interests of good practice . |
| 20 | Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically . |
| 21 | However , by the autumn of 1992 , both the government and other experts were predicting that the continuing recession would lead to a still more rapid slow down in the growth of government revenue . |
| 22 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 23 | Bridget murmured as they set off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms . |
| 24 | It 's a funny thing though , because mother 's and daughter 's , and er , I love , when my mum comes up she 's a dreadful sleeper and if you 're having a bad time , you get up in the middle of the night to go and make a cup of tea , there 's always a little voice says , yes , let's have a cup of tea dear . |
| 25 | The neighbours would hear the truck draw up in the middle of the night , the rattle of the tail-board , the despairing slurry of the prisoner 's feet on the dirt . |
| 26 | Existing techniques are accurate enough to measure such changes in the Sun 's size directly , and monitoring programmes set up in the wake of these various claims and counter-claims will resolve the issue , one way or another , before the end of the decade . |
| 27 | Paddy Ashdown is definitely going to Hoy , to look at the Hoy Telecottage , one of the community facilities set up in the wake of the H&I Initiative to take advantage of the facilities it offers . |
| 28 | ‘ When I wake up in the middle of the night and find a strange man on my boat — ’ |
| 29 | The powers set out in the rest of Clause 3 are standard matters often appearing in a company 's memorandum and , as is common practice , they are broadly worded for the sake of completeness . |
| 30 | The powers set out in the rest of Clause 3 are standard matters often appearing in a company 's memorandum and , as is common practice , they are broadly worded for the sake of completeness . |