Example sentences of "[noun] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A recent application in our own hands has been in the treatment of multiple sclerosis where it has been found to be of value in restoring at least some nerve function in about 60–70 per cent of patients treated .
2 There is too much easy talk about ‘ inspiration ’ , but at such times one sees it exactly for what it is , a breathing in of all experience , all apprehension of beauty , all love .
3 In the second half Leeds came roaring back , possibly looking for another replay because Chapman scored for the Yorkshire side after sixty nine minutes , but Arsenal held firm and they visit Shrewsbury in round five .
4 BP Solar is developing a technology based on an alternative semiconductor that can absorb the whole solar spectrum in about one-thousandth of a millimetre of material .
5 well there were eighteen pound M O T in with that
6 THE Queen , rather pre-occupied these days , has nevertheless found time to quash attempts to strip Sir Walter Raleigh of his title for introducing the dreaded weed in to this country .
7 So someone bought the bailiffs in for sixty two quid !
8 Even I can put a computer in like those
9 They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies .
10 Ca n't fit the notes in for that .
11 Another key aspect of the new courses has been the building in of planned linkages to degree provision .
12 Parts of the Augustinian wall have been found in the streets of the inner city , enough to trace the route of the old walls along Via Agnello , that runs into the north-east corner of Piazza del Duomo , Via Paolo de Cannobiro , Via Brisa , Via Cusani and Via Filodrammatici , as well as several of the roads in between these .
13 They were they had a a board in of white kitten , free to good home .
14 Well I do n't believe that that should necessarily be a reason why it should be accepted in this case in by this panel .
15 Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’
16 er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house
17 DAMAGES — plaintiffs costs — payment in by one defendant release 031
18 He set the hammer action and drove the bit in between two shiny bolts .
19 To benefit from tax-free interest , you must leave your money in for five years .
20 Erm one of the points that has n't been mentioned in terms of the benefits discussed earlier is that the forecasts are that n because of the horrendous accident record of the A sixty one , that transfer of thirty percent of the traffic onto a high standard , modern and much safer road , will result in a reduction in between seven hundred and a thousand people er being injured on the A sixty one during the thirty year er lifespan of the western relief road .
21 So erm in fairness to him I think he was plunged into something he did n't have a hell in er hope in at that time of coping with .
22 So the maximum value a coeffic correlation coefficient can obtain is plus one , and that would be when there 's a total positive correlation Conversely , the minimum value it can obtain is when this expression on top is minus N minus one , so it goes down to minus one for a complete negative correlation and it 's zero if there 's no correlation and then there 's the values in between That 's just saying what I 've said .
23 His resolution to punish his wife for letting a stranger in at such a time would have to wait .
24 Following the bomb drop , the Lincolns would wheel in at low level allowing the air gunners to heavily strafe the target area .
25 Once you 've got that fourth equation in from all this lot adds up to the total , and that 's the one that you seem to be forgetting , that 's the one you 've got to try and remember .
26 and they dragged two of them in and there 's about ten people in the other side of the carriage in about this much space and there 's like two J F S kids lying on the floor in the middle of the carriage
27 None of us are lock in to this P I and production phases , we will not be locked in until we sign the memorandum of understanding for those phases and that is scheduled for nineteen ninety five .
28 I think members should bear in mind the costs of caving in to French blackmail .
29 However , in practice there was enough choice of speeds and the steps in between each were fine .
30 Sometimes even junior Libyan officials dug their heels in on particular points of practical application of rules , and rejected all attempts by their colleagues and superiors to persuade , cajole , order , bully them into expediting business .
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