Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced at the girl standing eagerly in front of her . |
| 2 | The New English Art Club had been founded in 1886 somewhat in defiance of the Royal Academy , and the Fitzroy Street Group was a dissatisfied breakaway from it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Following Schmalensee ( 1982 ) the area marked A may be written as the triangular area to which it approximates : where unc is the price-marginal cost margin , unc is sales revenue at current prices and unc is a number somewhat in excess of one because marginal cost is falling . |
| 5 | In a sense , just as out and out dementia is less interesting than neurosis and eccentricity , so the music of these episodes , with their rather obvious distortions and wrong attributions of earlier themes , is less gripping than the Passacaglia , where Grimes was still somewhat in control of his faculties . |
| 6 | Gorbachev was at this time on an official visit to West Germany , which was curtailed somewhat in view of domestic developments . |
| 7 | If he was annoyed , Zborowski smothered his feelings : he was somewhat in awe of Modigliani who was , after all , a gentleman . |
| 8 | Colonel Goreng , a rural thug with ribbon on his chest and scrambled egg on his cap , was somewhat in awe of the antecedents of his young wife . |
| 9 | When an inquiry was carried out , it was discovered that the regiments that had the most influence , either through royal or noble connections , were doing much better in respect of ammunition and supplies than some others . |
| 10 | Do you play better in front of close family ? |
| 11 | Like many of the heroes of his novels — notably Moira , recently reissued in English by Quartet Books — he is someone who gave himself over to pleasure in his youth , travelling endlessly in search of new sensations , both enslaved to sensuality and contemptuous of it — in his own words , ‘ crucified by sex ’ . |
| 12 | I suppose that 's why you were suddenly in favour of my investing in the Rose Bowl . |
| 13 | The Partnerships did not find themselves suddenly in receipt of substantial resources deflected from other local-authority budgets . |
| 14 | She jumped to her feet , suddenly in need of occupation , and went into the kitchen . |
| 15 | But he quietened down soon after , because when Jennifer turned her dark eyes in his direction he was put suddenly in mind of Martha and understood very well why Tristram had been unable to keep away from her . |
| 16 | He must have closed his eyes because the priest was suddenly in front of him . |
| 17 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 18 | In such activities , there are assumed to be some INVARIANT elements which have to be performed ( eg conforming to the rules of tennis ) , but that there are VARIANT ways in which the individual may perform them ( eg in choice of backhands , forehands , volleys ) . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) Underwriting arrangements on arm 's length commercial terms between the offeror and underwriters and sub-underwriters ( eg in respect of a cash underwritten alternative ) are not normally considered by the Panel to amount to an agreement or understanding within the meaning of " acting in concert " . |
| 20 | The Doctor explained to the colonel apparently in charge of the troops that he was the scientific advisor for UNIT . |
| 21 | The decline in smoking prevalence and tobacco sales is particularly significant because in March of this year , the Health Department reported that there had been a 14 percent rise in tobacco advertising during 1990 , apparently in anticipation of the advertising ban . |
| 22 | As the east European member states of the former Warsaw Pact and Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA , or Comecon ) continued to experience severe economic difficulties in their transition to free-market systems , concerns were expressed during January and February at a series of incidents in which arms manufactured by those countries were supplied to Middle Eastern countries , apparently in contravention of the existing multilateral arms control provisions . |
| 23 | German officials reported on Jan. 29 that a German freighter , the Godewind , bound from Szczecin in Poland for Syria , had been found to be carrying 16 Czechoslovak-made T-72 tanks for the Syrian armed forces , apparently in contravention of the Czechoslovak government 's promise to end such transactions . |
| 24 | Please sign below in confirmation of receipt of the packaging . |
| 25 | 10. ( 1 ) An application to a licensing board of any kind mentioned in subsection ( 6 ) below in respect of any premises shall be in such form as may be prescribed , shall be completed and signed by the applicant or his agent , and shall be lodged with the clerk of the licensing within whose area the premises are situated not later than five weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered . |
| 26 | What I did find very distressing in his remarks , er were basically in respect of some of the savings . |
| 27 | There 's this guy there called Les , now it was put to us when we were down there last time that erm , attending this meeting when it happens would be er one Nigel , who 's , I do n't quite , I ca n't remember what he 's picked for , erm he 's actually been promoted , he 's pretty senior , he was basically in charge of the product engineering at , and he 's now been promoted so that puts him even further up the ladder |
| 28 | The barber sat on the railings while his customers stood patiently in front of him to have their heads shaved . |
| 29 | Alternately raise each arm outwards in front of you until horizontal and then slowly lower , keeping the arms straight at all times . |
| 30 | The tablets are engraved afresh in token of God 's renewal of the covenant . |