Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 2 | What perhaps is most impressive in each of the cases we have discussed is this , that the dispossession by a new-comer of a race already in occupation of the soil has marked an upward step in the intellectual progress of mankind . |
| 3 | Using Pope 's ‘ Mobil Guide to the North Island ’ we were able to look up what was worth seeing in each of the towns we passed through . |
| 4 | Grieco is able to show that in each of the situations she studied in different regions of Britain , proportions of the workforce had kin connections with the firm for which they worked . |
| 5 | In fact , Botham did have an excuse , in that before the match he had received a death threat . |
| 6 | Diana de Moutis , entrusted with the sale of ‘ La Celestine ’ by its owner Georges Pellequer , contacted Didier Imbert in 1986 in the hope he could help her obtain an export licence . |
| 7 | Nicolas and Bridget in Plagued by the Nightingale I can understand . |
| 8 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 9 | If they fell in this without a wetsuit they 'd be dead . |
| 10 | Few fish can survive in some of the torrents they can inhabit . |
| 11 | In some of the cases he deals with these interests supplement one another ; but they nevertheless remain distinct . |
| 12 | The typically inner shape is high and wide so you can at the least sit up comfortably — in some of the models you can just about stand . |
| 13 | I expect the conditions in some of the houses you went into were , were er pretty poor . |
| 14 | The researcher noticed that the adult sex ratio was significantly skewed towards males in some of the groups she was observing . |
| 15 | I think there 's dangers in some of the things you 're saying . |
| 16 | In the explicit limits to their power which they had to accept in some of the areas they ruled ( especially in Hungary and the Basque provinces ) the Habsburgs and the Spanish Bourbons had something in common with the Hanoverians . |
| 17 | ‘ This is just a story about a human being , like in some of the books we read . ’ |
| 18 | In some of the series it is compressed by the top margin of the frame but pours out of the bottom in great rivers of paint . |
| 19 | ‘ Sadly , though — and this is the way of the world as you will find out when you grow up — my friend is less interested in the car itself than in some of the people it carries . |
| 20 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 21 | The official birth of the Italian Transavanguardia movement with which Bonito Oliva 's name is now crucially linked took place in 1979 in an exhibition he organised entitled ‘ Opere fatte ad arte ’ at Acireale , followed the next year by ‘ Aperto 80 ’ at the Biennale which featured the work of Chia , Clemente , Cucchi , De Maria and Paladino , the first in a series of shows devoted to young artists at the Venice festival . |
| 22 | At the 1931 election the Labour Party retained only one in six of the seats they had won in 1929 . |
| 23 | In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information . |
| 24 | He only knew one word in three of the lyric he 'd chosen . |
| 25 | In Zimbabwe 's case , England openly opposed their long-awaited elevation to Test status in 1992 on the grounds it would devalue the international game . |
| 26 | ‘ We also place great emphasis on the confidence-building which comes through theatre and things like self-presentation , teamwork , personal responsibility , working to dead-lines — we 've seen some fairly amazing changes in many of the women we 've worked with . |
| 27 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ In many of the instances we find that employers are not honouring the basic minimum wage and ignoring overtime rates , ’ she said . |
| 29 | In many of the pictures he is accompanied by his half-sister Peggy , about ten years older than he , who was devoted to him . |
| 30 | Yet at the moment there is a feeling in many of the schools I visit ( both in this country and abroad ) that to give attention to the child who is already a ‘ high flier ’ is difficult and somehow immoral . |