Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the Pointers , apparently side by side in the sky , it is not easy to appreciate that they are quite unconnected with each other . |
| 2 | For example , in the Sahara the dunes are orientated slightly east of south in the north and then veer consistently in direction until they are orientated somewhat south of west in the southern Sahara , beyond which similar orientation is betrayed by the old fixed dunes ( Fig . |
| 3 | Nor was there much evidence of concern in the correspondence columns of The Times — that bush-telegraph of respectable opinion — which were absorbed with more pressing matters such as the scarcity of swallows in England that summer . |
| 4 | That they did not was because they had achieved only conservation of energy in the sense that the amount released exceeded that contained in the mass of a muon . |
| 5 | Increased reliance on Moscow may now hold out much prospect of improvement in growth , productivity or living standards , but intra-bloc trade at least offers assured markets , predictable performance benchmarks , and the kind of long-term trading agreements which are the staple of central planning and of central planners . |
| 6 | It is more an inevitable consequence of two people ( particularity people of a similar age ) finding themselves sitting together week after week in a setting which , socially speaking , is hard to define . |
| 7 | Up to the four o'clock news with Sniff in the tears , dedicated to me . |
| 8 | Outcomes are of importance : eg resurgence of interest in local history and traditions ( Ness Historical Society ) ; self-help ( youth group , horticultural group ) ; revival of ancient skills ( weaving ) ; use by schools of community organisations ' productions ; political awareness stimulated by local video-tape production in Gaelic on the subject of a local Army installation ; economic developments ; publications ; pre-school developments ( educational and social , and now linked with the pilot development of Open University materials for parents ) ; linguistic awareness ; social awareness , via merging of established roles , eg parent/ teacher , community worker/fellow horticulturalist , informal/vocational education . |
| 9 | Poor Elsie had died of the whooping cough just after Harry had gone to America , so now there was only Edna at home in the daytime to help her mother . |
| 10 | Desmond Fostin , Minister of Communications , Works and Transport , resigned and was replaced by Gregory Avril , hitherto Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture , on Feb. 9 , 1990 , after allegations of corruption within the Ministry . |
| 11 | Only lack of challenge in her job would lure Professor Costall away from Bradford . |
| 12 | However , only treatment of hypertension in diabetics with nephropathy has been shown to improve prognosis , although this statement is based on very few patients . |
| 13 | Syrian forces control much of eastern and northern Lebanon , and since early 1987 have taken over responsibility for security in West Beirut . |
| 14 | I crawled in a fruitless search all the way back to the tree and then turned and crawled away again on a slightly different line , looking , looking , hope draining away yard by yard in progressive debility , resolution ebbing with failure . |
| 15 | He said Mr Hargreaves 's bicycle had been found chained to a sign at the start of a trail , which winds its way through thick forest to the vast Mendenall glacier , just north of Juneau in south east Alaska . |
| 16 | No , no there 's always room for improvement in liaison |
| 17 | He now reads as well as other children his age , although there is still room for improvement in numeracy . |
| 18 | W.H. Allan , once director of agriculture in Northern Rhodesia and the author of a definitive work on change in decade the land area planted to cotton increased from 67,000 hectares to 170,000 hectares , and fears grew of a long-term decline in fertility . |
| 19 | Wherever the records of mankind 's history and prehistory are to be found , whether in the ancient and strangely charactered , but nevertheless understandable by the learned , writings of bygone civilisations , or in the numerous findings of decades of archaeological investigations into the past history of human life , there is always evidence of belief in some form of ‘ god ’ . |
| 20 | there is always scope for improvement in any activity ; |
| 21 | During the 1980s we have witnessed further development of provision in special needs . |
| 22 | Dundee did deservedly edge in front in the 12th minute when Gary McKeown curled in a cross from the right and defender Gary Paterson was allowed to chest the ball down before hooking it high into the net . |
| 23 | On this morning however , they dallied somewhat so that each might have the off-chance of that little bit of news that other people call gossip , which the other might add to the jigsaw of seemingly useless information built up bit by bit in small minds . |
| 24 | There 's also support for change in the Gloucester Diocese , though Bishop Peter Ball will abstain . |
| 25 | A white cat and the marmalade and white lay curled up side by side in an armchair . |
| 26 | They sat up side by side in the bed , naked , listening , but Valerie no longer felt safe . |
| 27 | However , the Director of the Royal College of Music , Sir Hugh Allen , a pretty terrifying man to a young student , was also Professor of Music in Oxford , so I tremulously consulted him . |
| 28 | Duties include preparing apparatus and setting up equipment for use in practical classes . |
| 29 | What table 4.2 does not show , however , is that there is also variation in length in the /a/ system , which is equally rule-governed . |
| 30 | There are certain exceptions to the general rule in virtue of the provisions of s.138(1) , namely trafficking in liquor in services ' canteens , theatres erected before January 1 , 1904 , or with passengers on vessels , aircraft , or railway passenger vehicles . |