Example sentences of "[noun prp] in the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another way is by treating the flue gases with limestone — which we can supply from the ICI quarries at Buxton in the very large quantities required . |
| 2 | " Can I top you up , Mr Willoughby ? " asked Lucy in the most polished social manner that anyone could desire , and soon the Magistrate was drinking his third cup of hot water , and still gazing at her in fascination , or to be more precise , at the back of her neck , which was the part of her which most interested him . |
| 3 | Although well known in Spain , Gordillo this month holds his first show in the United States in the newly revamped quarters of the Marlborough Gallery . |
| 4 | The range includes the new 1.6 Lantra in the hotly contested Ford Escort category . |
| 5 | And is there any possibility — or is it part of current thinking — that InterCity tracks will be sold off as part of InterCity in the highly improbable event of the right hon. and learned Gentleman still being in a position to proceed with such a sale ? |
| 6 | A situation report from Hesse in March 1936 expressly mentions the opinion , allegedly widely held among the population in the area , though undoubtedly reflecting above all the views of Party activists , ‘ that the Führer had for outward appearances to ban individual actions against the Jews in consideration of foreign policy , but in reality was wholly in agreement that each individual should continue on his own initiative the fight against Jewry in the most rigorous and radical form ’ . |
| 7 | De Klerk visited nine European countries in May in the most extensive overseas tour by a South African leader since the National Party came to power in 1948 . |
| 8 | Much of the support for syndicalism and for selfstyled revolutionary and Marxist parties was concentrated outside England in the increasingly " depressed " areas of central Scotland and South Wales . |
| 9 | It was possible , however , for a member of the House of Orange ( the descendants of William the Silent , the leader of the struggle for independence against Spain in the later sixteenth century ) to be elected Stadtholder of all or most of the provinces and thus attain the position of General Stadtholder of the federation . |
| 10 | the English working class … can never do anything decisive here in England until it separates its policy with regard to Ireland in the most definite way from the policy of the ruling class , until it not only makes common cause with the Irish , but actually takes the initiative in dissolving the Union established in 1801 , and replacing it by a federal relationship . |
| 11 | The waymarked tourist path to the summit of Ben Lomond in the recently created Loch Lomond regional park has become , in the words of the conservationists ‘ a four lane motorway ’ , which at its worst cuts a deep furrow through the peak down to bedrock . |
| 12 | Unbeaten Pegasus ( Danny Scott , Mike Molyenuex ) had a five goal ace in Liam O'Connor when they won 7-0 against St. Michaels in the Under 12 division . |
| 13 | But the glamour of track events must n't overshadow the historic achievement of Steve Redgrave in the less popular but equally tough sport of rowing . |
| 14 | ‘ when I considered how striking a display such a life affords of the nature of true religion — of the power of divine grace — of the mysterious but all-wise course of Divine Providence — and of the encouragement afforded for our dependance upon that Providence in the most trying circumstances … ‘ |
| 15 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 16 | They probed and measured and cross-questioned Phoebe in the most condescending manner , made worse by the fact that they clearly did not have a clue as to what might have happened . |
| 17 | Ackner , L. J. in the more recent case of A. Lambert Flat Management Ltd. v Lomas pointed out the need for the defendant to have encountered some ‘ special difficulty ’ preventing compliance with the nuisance order , such as illness , or non-receipt of the notice . |
| 18 | The National Trust looks after one of the largest collections in the world , and these works of art , plus other great and important collections in the British Isles , are described by Bruce Arnold in the fully illustrated Art Atlas published by Viking Penguin on 28 February at £25 . |
| 19 | Both Palestrina and Victoria toward the end of their lives became aware of the festive possibilities of the Venetian double-choral effect , Palestrina in the Mass ‘ Laudate l ) ominum ’ and a number of motets , Victoria in the already mentioned Missa pro victoria and the three Marian Masses published with it ( Madrid , 1600 ) , all of which have organ accompaniment . |
| 20 | On his release he made his way back to England through Belgium , sailing from Antwerp in the hastily requisitioned Montrose . |
| 21 | Nor did he reveal any keener affinity with Schubert in the rather mechanical , plainly stated accompaniments that he provided for the mezzo Yvonne Howard . |
| 22 | The aliens and absentees who pushed their claims too far fanned the flames of popular revolt in Sussex in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and bore the brunt of the explosions that followed . |
| 23 | She did not blame Sarah in the least . |
| 24 | The case has been subjected to analysis by the House of Lords in the more unfriendly climate of the 1980s . |
| 25 | ‘ Thus we wind up this wonderful year , ’ wrote Horace Walpole on 30 November as the news of Quiberon arrived , the phrase heard on all lips and picked up that Christmas by David Garrick in the aptly named pantomime , Harlequin 's Invasion : |
| 26 | ( Indeed , not only did Beccaria use the concept of utility , but Bentham himself acknowledged his intellectual debt to Beccaria in the most fulsome terms and is even believed to have first encountered the phrase ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ in Beccaria 's master work : see Beccaria , 1963 : x-xi , 9 . ) |
| 27 | Although the IntePlan program is currently sold as a separate item the promise of its combination with InteMate in the very near future will offer an interesting challenge to programs such as Desq and Menu Ease , not to mention Windows and TopView . |
| 28 | ‘ Come along ! ’ snapped Miss Harker in the most understanding snap it was possible to make — she was acutely aware of Prentice though she did not look directly at him . |
| 29 | The title of Tie Me Up and Bind Me Robin was derived from a quote from Maid Marion in the wholly innocent 1955 series Robin Hood . |
| 30 | Kirk finds God in the slightly rubbish STAR TREK V : THE FINAL FRONTIER and Jane Fonda gets her kit off for the evil Duran Duran in groovy pop-art romp BARBARELLA . |