Example sentences of "[adv] in the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical know-how means that people are living longer anyway , though not necessarily in the best of health . |
| 2 | An hour or so in the best of company , the bar is open , and all for £3 — what more can we do ? |
| 3 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 4 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 5 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 6 | Both these elements are needed in an understanding of soil erosion conservation , but hitherto it is only the first which has usually been considered — and only in the first of the three location-specific senses at that . |
| 7 | Kristeva 's own voice is recorded in this volume only in the first of the essays , ‘ The Adolescent Novel ’ , but each of the subsequent pieces variously addresses aspects of her work . |
| 8 | The problem for Sun and Hewlett is that they will sell only in the tens of millions [ of chips ] ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ But why should he come down in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 10 | The most significant change in this respect is the slowing down in the 1980s of the decline in urban populations compared with the previous decade ( Champion , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 12 | Where Buxton 's second-round score , put together in the worst of the weather , was an 81 , McKay had another 80 in which she was left kicking herself for having chipped through the green at the 295-yard 14th on her way to a six . |
| 13 | Robert Jones sparkled , Tony Clement was constantly in the thick of things at fullback , whether kicking long and meaningfully or surging through on the counter-attack . |
| 14 | ‘ Firstly , they are both constantly in the thick of the action . |
| 15 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 16 | This presented a thought that made me shudder with fright : this awesome , eerie world-apart in the dead of night , unbearably cold , no moon or stars , merely the moan of the mysterious gods beneath the ice … |
| 17 | Despite the well-founded fear of the Securitate , for most of the period of Communist rule in Romania , the secret police was not in the front-line of control over the population . |
| 18 | Rodney was not in the best of tempers because ( he kept saying ) he could n't see out of the rear window with that damned bicycle in the way . |
| 19 | Sara was not in the best of tempers because ( she kept saying ) she had nowhere to put her feet between the aubergines and the case of wine on the floor . |
| 20 | The CO was not in the best of tempers . |
| 21 | The buildings were not in the best of condition . |
| 22 | Both house and mill were recently offered for sale and , although not in the best of condition , their potential was obvious . |
| 23 | The frills and lace are Perhaps not in the best of taste , but fashionable nevertheless . |
| 24 | Burke was not in the best of condition and had lost his fighting spirit because of his troubles with Byrne and O'Rourke . |
| 25 | She had seen the film , too , and I received a letter some time later from her husband , Mr Hallows , telling me that Odette was not in the best of health and they were moving house . |
| 26 | Though not in the best of health , Marian was determined to make her own way , accepting little else from Bloomsbury House except tickets for the occasional outing to the Wigmore Hall . |
| 27 | I set off back to the hospital — not in the best of tempers after a foul drive in filthy weather — and it was on the way home , as the wet lamps marched towards me , that it happened . |
| 28 | The Doctor could see she was not in the best of moods . |
| 29 | In September 1770 John Sadler retired , possibly because he was not in the best of health . |
| 30 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |