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

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1 She prodded him fiercely in the buttocks with the tip of her brolly , accusing him of disloyalty .
2 Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs .
3 So , somewhat in the footsteps of the pursuers of Colonel Fawcett , who disappeared many years ago into the jungles of South America , I set out after my man , who had slipped away , sadly and silently , back into the dark continent and seemingly into history .
4 Growth rates slowed somewhat in the mid-1950s , yet were still in excess of seven per cent .
5 Though the number of Russian diplomatic missions abroad tended to fall somewhat in the decades which followed his death — there were nineteen in 1779 and ( largely for reasons of economy ) only fourteen in 1800 — the country did not relapse into the isolation of the seventeenth century .
6 The levels detected upstream in the Friends of the Earth study are broadly comparable to those measured by the ministry in samples nearer the coast - where official models would predict a higher amount of radioactivity .
7 I see it fantastically in the pages of books I read and in a true sense I see life through the leaves of the willow tree .
8 yes , well I expect you 'd say that worded better in the interests of a vulnerable section of society to take this
9 Masnun was out of sight from a poor draw in his last race at Kempton , but ran much better in the Stewards ' Cup here and he 's well in today on his best form .
10 I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools .
11 By this time , I think the fact that Prost was not only good , but better in the results department , was the least of Niki 's worries .
12 I was brought up in one myself , but it is true that girls on the whole do better in the subjects traditionally regarded as male subjects in single sex schools .
13 Since the Second World War the Sussex has become a stronger colour-marker , much neater of shoulder than the powerful draught type of old , shorter in the leg and better in the hindquarters , and it still produces lean , marbled meat , especially in the prime cuts .
14 ‘ Personally , I would liked to have done a little bit better in the Tests .
15 Dr Howe , who has treated Tony for the past four years , said : ‘ It has been discussed endlessly in the newspapers and I think it is time to let it be . ’
16 I get on my knees and manage to wipe away nearly all of the blood , though some of it sticks stubbornly in the crevices of the floor .
17 In other areas where competition for limited places is more acute , possession of the ‘ normal minimum admission standards ’ may not be enough to secure admission , eg in the Faculties of Law , Medicine and Veterinary Medicine , or in certain pressure areas in the Social Sciences such as Psychology .
18 Differences between the sexes in education patterns are also discussed below in the sections on independent and special schools .
19 Far below in the glens , pinpoints of yellow light , growing in number as darkness fell , served to accentuate the loneliness of the scree slopes which I now traversed .
20 Two , standing below in the shallows , showed off bills tinged with orange — a sign that they were breeding .
21 He heard the key grating ineffectively in the wards of the lock it did not fit , and her vexed , angry breathing as she wrestled to make it enter where it would not go .
22 Dyson had expected to find the television studios a blaze of activity in the middle of the evening viewing hours , and humbly anticipated that he would himself be treated as a completely unimportant part of the machine-jostled indifferently in the corridors by actors , musicians , and cameramen , sighed at offensively in the studio by the technicians and professionals .
23 An hour passed , then another ; snow gathered thickly in the folds of their clothes ; they missed their road .
24 No shaman was present to preside or to ask for God 's blessing upon Artai 's reign , Alexei saw , for it was a fact that there was no such thing as organised religion on this world , and even casual superstition was not permitted to interfere for long in the affairs of men .
25 With the precious metal that has been undetected for so long in the folds of these hills , disseminated through the rock in an average ratio of half an ounce to a ton of stone , the sheer volume of likely debris is worrying .
26 To be an active dealer entails taking positions in currencies such as going long in the dollars and short in DMs .
27 But none of those famous victories matches the significance to Welsh rugby , so long in the doldrums , of this scintillating triumph .
28 ( a bit long in the pasterns ? )
29 Robertson was carrying a can of Tartan Ale from which he frequently refreshed himself , and in turn denied any knowledge of the great part Sir Ralph Grunte had played for so long in the counsels of the Tory Party .
30 The nuns claim that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , and although salmonella is present in the environment it is not necessarily in the eggs .
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