Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 2 | It was clear he had more to say and she might as well get it over with in one go . |
| 3 | The whole thing seemed to be over with in five minutes — I 'd hardly sat down before I was being taken down the steps to the police cells . |
| 4 | And should you be careless enough to get your fingers caught in there , well that would be the end , it would draw you in and it would chop your fingers and your arm off in in half inch er bits you know . |
| 5 | When she again took up Between in 1967 she decided to change the gender of the main character from male to female and ‘ it suddenly worked ’ ( 1990c:32 ) . |
| 6 | The guards were ill-trained and fearful , with little combat experience , while what the rebels lacked in training and tactics was more than made up for in sheer ferocity and homicidal bloodlust . |
| 7 | He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ . |
| 8 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |
| 9 | It should be added that what the author lacks in scholarly rigour ( there are no footnotes and the index is skeletal ) he makes up for in discursive readability and enthusiasm . |
| 10 | WHAT T&S Stores lacks in glamour , it makes up for in low-ticket reliability . |
| 11 | So Freud has to explain this weakness of Wilson , in the face of erm , these much more dominant aggressive men he was up against in these very hard er hitting negotiations , about what to do about the world after , after World War One . |
| 12 | If the government had executed the plans it came up with in 1856 , peasants would have been justified in thinking that the devil of serfdom was preferable to the deep blue sea of reform . |
| 13 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 14 | But whether the French will be any more amenable to being ganged up on in this fashion remains to be seen . |
| 15 | It can happen , you know , what they got up to in that play ; it can happen . |
| 16 | without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access . |
| 17 | Cynical almost to a man , they expected the worst , and had come to write their stories of poor abused children , evil parents , and the things that ‘ incomers ’ get up to in remote islands . |
| 18 | An exhibition called Old World , New World is going on there right now devoted to what Chris got up to in 1492 . |
| 19 | Yet it is precisely because this ideology is not lived up to in private , and because the state is involved both in its promulgation and its violation , that feminist theory can take a highly critical moral stance . |
| 20 | Postman was looked up to in those days , he was an educated man . |
| 21 | There are so many things you 've got to be looking out for in those |
| 22 | Ask a group of industry watchers for the trends to look out for in 1993 , and one answer they 're all sure to give you is portable computing . |
| 23 | Although the show elevated him from struggling stand-up comic to greeting card icon in two short series , last spring Damon bailed out of In Living Color to devote his energies to writing and starring in films . |
| 24 | This is a Catch-22 I do n't think rugby will be able to spin out of in this country . |
| 25 | They 're really setting out in in great detail what is contained in that letter . |
| 26 | Now it is for these reasons all of these different views and these conflicting opinions coming from authoritative sources and the concern the locals have that this issue has been ramrodded through on a political ticket is is is the very reason why it should go to an inspector appointed by the Secretary of State at least some semblance of independence and that issues brought out in in full public consideration . |
| 27 | Now we do n't want our sales consultants to be graphic arts experts because we have right the way back in in head office |
| 28 | The study was carried out by in viro instillation of PT-gliadin in the jejunum of two control individuals and three coeliac patients in remission . |
| 29 | And finally , staying with generalities on migration , I think it behoves us all to be a bit cautious because I see quite a lot of fantasy and fiction around in in this E I P and I 'd be guilty of it myself at times . |