Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of this research is to investigate empirically the variations in Britain 's strike activity over time and the variations between Britain and other EEC countries in the post-war period . |
| 2 | Eventually the boulders in the road became too large to dodge . |
| 3 | In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services . |
| 4 | ‘ It all depends on how he ( Brand ) plays , ’ said the Spanish star , delighted to be back in contention a week after finishing second in Switzerland and two weeks before he takes on the Americans in the Ryder Cup again . |
| 5 | Miss Reid was a fully qualified nurse , and when , some months later , the post of superintendent-nurse at St. Peter 's Hospital became vacant , the new Mrs. Chaplin took on the duties in addition to those of matron . |
| 6 | Each year a celebrity is chosen to switch on the Illuminations in Talbot Square , followed for many years by a tour of the Lights by tram . |
| 7 | Bring on the men in white coats ! |
| 8 | I began several diaries , carrying on the entries in some of them as far as February . |
| 9 | The problem involves rather the ways in which Hegel has been read , absorbed and adapted . |
| 10 | Access to information held about them will help clients understand better the processes in which they are involved , and to participate in decisions that critically effect them . |
| 11 | This research examines the face-to-face communications between teachers and children in primary classrooms , in order to understand better the ways in which teachers and children develop a shared understanding of the work they are doing in class . |
| 12 | I will uphold my church and especially the leaders in my daily prayers . |
| 13 | Large sections of the community , especially the blacks in the urban ghettos , young unemployed in urban areas of the north , and a considerable swathe of the people of Scotland , seemed almost to contract out from traditional forms of participation and civic involvement . |
| 14 | The exterior is very like the Greek Byzantine churches , especially the examples in Thessaloniki ( 193 ) . |
| 15 | Will he reflect on the fact that , if the Bill is passed , redundancy arrangements will be forced on the coalfields , and especially the pits in Nottinghamshire ? |
| 16 | A Convention , similar to that in England , which met in Edinburgh on 14 March 1689 , eventually decided to offer William the throne , though many Scots , especially the chieftains in the Highlands where the old religion remained strong , still regarded James II as their king , and others , not necessarily Catholic , saw in the dispossessed Stuarts the best hope of regaining Scotland 's lost independence . |
| 17 | Naturally the Koreans in Yenan were deeply influenced by Mao Tse-tung 's ideas for reorganising a party and for pursuing guerrilla warfare . |
| 18 | Horan and de Kretser cornered some of those upper cases for Ceylon in Colombo on January 7 when they mowed down the visitors in their second innings for 46 and inflicted a ‘ pair ’ of ducks on Waddy himself . |
| 19 | A century ago there were children working down the mines in Britain . |
| 20 | But for the children running up and down the aisles in church or the yobs in leather jackets barging the queue at petrol stations , the elderly are n't so much objects of deference as obstacles to be pushed peremptorily aside . |
| 21 | Melvyn Wallace , 39 , a disc-jockey , originally from Rochester , Kent , was said to be in tears when the Thai court handed down the sentences in a five-minute appearance . |
| 22 | Those gunners who had no riding place on the guns or limbers were running down the verges in an undisciplined retreat . |
| 23 | She recalled , with a lump in her throat , the slow tears gathering , glistening in the light of the lantern as they slid down the furrows in his cheeks . |
| 24 | ‘ The wild swan hurries high and noises loud/ with white neck peering to the evening cloud , ’ and ‘ Coy bum barrels [ long-tailed tits ] twenty in a drove/ lit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain/ and hang on little twigs and start again . ‘ |
| 25 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 26 | It said 60 anti-guerrilla units cut down the plants in the indigenous area of Aponte in El Tablon , more than 460km ( 312 miles ) southwest of Bogota , at the weekend . |
| 27 | spell erm spell the word and things but erm write down the words in Spanish for ham or |
| 28 | You tape his mouth closed , put the roll of tape in one pocket , then leave him there to search the rest of the house , pulling down the blinds in each room as you go . |
| 29 | The western sun would scorch and dazzle and we would pull down the blinds in the compartment . |
| 30 | The evidence for the continuance of the policy into the fifth century comes from Thessaly , where Leotychidas had put down the tagos in the 470s ( p. 81 ) . |