Example sentences of "in the [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Manager McGrath has watched as both Cavan and Fermanagh have been caught napping in the championship so far and does not want a similar fate to befall his side .
2 I kicked the blackguard in the guts as hard as I could , flogged him into insensibility , and dropped him in the canal .
3 Simple instances , on the other hand , are those in which the clause seems to have been adopted to cover the eventuality that there may be some defect in the will so far as the civil law is concerned .
4 At night , on a dark moon , lying on my raised sleeping-platform at coconut level , the stars are reflected in the paddies as strongly as if down was up , and half this universe dances round me as the mating fireflies move through the trees and the house .
5 Bit bad , that ; probably in the dog-house as far as the lady wife was concerned , too , but then what was new ?
6 But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it .
7 The imperial treasury had been seriously reduced by the war and substantial funds were needed to fill the depleted ranks in the army as rapidly as possible .
8 Otherwise he concealed the fact that he was in the army as far as possible .
9 Both teams have met in the decider so often that they are vastly familiar with each other 's style of play .
10 I am anxious beyond measure to be in the country as soon as possible …
11 It is a hole in the head as far as the Irishman is concerned .
12 it 's reported in the press very often before it comes to the committee
13 Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made .
14 Actually I 've been I was sitting in the lounge today right and you know the situation there see his car going round the corner and stop and got out the car beaming at me , I said cor give him my old !
15 If the earth is thought of as a billiard ball , then the water upon its face is like hammered gold leaf , adhering to some imperfections in the ball more tightly than to others , and in yet others not adhering at all .
16 The most common cause of all resistance is stiffness in the back both laterally and directly .
17 ‘ There was another row at Newmarket last year when Sheikh Mohammed bought In The Groove privately rather than at a Tattersalls auction . ’
18 MAPLE LEAF SWAG Patrick Eggle JS Legend There is usually a bonding period of at least a couple of weeks between a player and a new instrument , but this time romance was in the air straight away and … what the hell …
19 I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel .
20 Pushing hard back against the mountain , he spun backwards out from the rock , curling over in the air so slowly that he could watch , in slow motion , first the passing overhead of the dark clouds , then the mountains , the far side of the valley , the meadow , the cabin , and , at last , the lake red with mud .
21 Finally , and above all , to develop an enthusiasm and interest in the subject both inside and outside the classroom .
22 Built round a consortium approach the MBA facilitates the opportunity for interaction between managers from the I.T function and from elsewhere in the organisation as well as with their counterparts in other organisations .
23 Did Humphreys suffer his major injuries when he fell from the disc jockey 's platform at the Hippodrome , or in the streets later on when he fled from the ambulance and was restrained once more ?
24 I then plant it in the substrate as deeply as possible .
25 For example , George Bourne was writing about its effects in the villages of Surrey in his Change in the Village as early as 1912 , by which time the railways had enabled a commuting population to inhabit the rural parts of the inner Home Counties .
26 We see the project as providing a focus for the work of junior researchers in the University as well as for the research of existing faculty members .
27 The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end .
28 The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end .
29 Anywhere in the north as far as I know .
30 The only snag to weighing fish immediately is that you should , as I have already mentioned , get your bait back in the water as quickly as possible when the bream are feeding .
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