Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the cities most in danger around the world are : * Bangkok , which faces a sea level rise of six feet by 2010 ; * Shanghai , also threatened by a six feet rise , coupled with the danger that salt water would advance 40 miles up the Yangtze River , causing severe drinking water shortages ; * Hong Kong , where seas may engulf newly-reclaimed coastal land , and an increased frequency of typhoons , due to climate disruption , threaten the whole territory ; * Alexandria — the whole city " may disappear " unless major defence works are undertaken ; * Tokyo , which will need £40 billion of flood defences in order to protect new suburbs ; * Rio de Janeiro , whose tourist beaches and nearby coastal villages are in danger ; * London , where there is concern that the existing Thames flood barrier may prove insufficient . |
| 2 | Recent surveys suggest that these are the foreign languages at present most in demand by employers . |
| 3 | From about July 1988 to March 1989 inclusive the first defendant entered into transactions with members of the United Kingdom investing public who paid out money thereunder in return for shares in Euramco as appears from the entries for that period in the schedule annexed hereto . |
| 4 | My brief was to provide a large painting of London with the Thames and the Richard Rogers Lloyd 's building somewhere in view , to fit a space that was large , long and thin in one of the client 's boardrooms at the Royal Mint . |
| 5 | Point one ; er , for access the field element is pre-booked , it 's only necessary to book additional days or shifts verbally in excess of that already reserved . |
| 6 | We will start by giving this guarantee to those groups most in need , including the long-term unemployed and single parents . |
| 7 | These are so often fastened by those who , in the name of love , secure our chains daily in case we have any notions of escape . |
| 8 | This master of Enfield Grammar School neglected scholastic responsibility somewhat in favour of his extensive hothouses filled with exotic plants and his letter to Richardson recounted a need for restocking after a disastrous winter . |
| 9 | But suppose that , though believing himself to be liable , he gives a note or cheque only in response to a demand threatening legal proceedings ? |
| 10 | It is known that youths grew their hair long in preparation for a ritual offering of a lock of hair to the deity . |
| 11 | But if a wife 's allegation of rape is true , her motive for bringing it is no more relevant than that of a householder who notifies the police about a burglary merely in order to recover insurance . |
| 12 | Oxford United , Swindon and Hereford all in action . |
| 13 | Oxford United , Swindon and Hereford all in action . |
| 14 | The precise scale of his industrial undertakings is unknown , but by 1629 his blast-furnace at West Bromwich cost over £1,000 annually in ironstone , wood , and charcoal . |
| 15 | The Southern Ocean is the feeding ground of many thousands of seabirds , seals and whales , some present only in summer , others throughout the year . |
| 16 | As in bowling so in batting . |
| 17 | If you weighed them , you 'd find that it was probably a thousand times , ten thousand times less in weight than the ovum and er also many times smaller in volume , and this is typical . |
| 18 | Communion actually the Holy Communion has become so much more important to us and so much more exciting to us because we 're not just celebrating the living Christ we 're also celebrating the crucified Christ and we 're simply meeting our pain and our joys together in communion with him . |
| 19 | Although railway-building in North America has been described above as ‘ quintessentially capitalist ’ , in fact railway companies were prepared to build to the West only in return for massive inducements . |
| 20 | These unused terms will normally be present in an index only in order to direct the user to the used or preferred terms . |
| 21 | Then they put the two molecules together in solution , and a fascinating thing happened . |
| 22 | There the emphasis in late medieval times was on the transcendental unity of the whole body of Christ embracing both the living and the dead , a unity constantly in creation through the energy of love . |
| 23 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 24 | Of course women do not define these housework rules entirely in isolation from other influences . |
| 25 | However , these can only be taken up by larger farmers with access to credit , with a lower vulnerability to the risk that the innovations imply , and with the economic and local political power to assemble all the necessary physical inputs together in time . |
| 26 | And Alderson B. , in the same case , says , ‘ It is undoubtedly true that payment of a portion of a liquidated demand , in the same manner as the whole liquidated demand which ought to be paid , is payment only in part , because it is not one bargain , but two : viz. , payment of part , and an agreement without consideration to give up the residue . |
| 27 | Protorankers occur widely in coastal Antarctica , wherever there is moisture enough in summer to support vegetation mats ( Tedrow and Ugolini , 1966 ; Ugolini , 1977 ; MacNamara , 1969 ) . |
| 28 | Also on the subject of drinking , a cat should never be given milk alone in place of water . |
| 29 | I 'm still a bit concerned about the side , although they look 100% better in defence with DOL in charge . |
| 30 | In North East Holland , the sectors most in need are : |