Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 2 | Her target was an excessively tall gangling gentleman , not very suitably clad for the Mediterranean in a suit of gingery wool with the trousers ending in tight bands round the calves . |
| 3 | But policies intended for the poor in general , which are politically more acceptable than those designed for specific racial groups , will aim at a big section of blacks too . |
| 4 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 5 | He read about the unemployed in newspapers and saw films about them on television , pacing across photogenic sections of contemporary Britain and muttering darkly about waste and emptiness . |
| 6 | Hitherto regarded as a moderate in his policies towards the West , the president 's rhetoric is becoming less conciliatory with the approach of presidential elections in June . |
| 7 | It 's widely regarded as the best in town and is within strolling distance of the city centre and Maschsee . |
| 8 | This latter region produces a type referred to as rasht silk , which is generally regarded as the best in the world . |
| 9 | The main area for the manufacture of fine broadcloths was the southern Cotswolds , notably in the Stroud valley , where there was not only a supply of high-quality local wool — Cotswold wool was generally regarded as the best in England — but also quantities of fuller 's earth and available water power ( 65 , pp.153–6 ; 84 , p.309 ) . |
| 10 | Similarly , the standard can be regarded as the ultimate in the development of a supra-local norm of language . |
| 11 | Its new pesticide proposals are regarded as the strictest in the world : " organic " and " biodynamic " farmers are to be seen as pioneers pointing to new chemical-free techniques for the rest of the agricultural community . |
| 12 | Scottish salmon is regarded as the finest in the world . |
| 13 | With those words the TV comedian announced the end of an 18-year marriage which many regarded as the strongest in showbusiness . |
| 14 | It is significant that the Prussian army , the most successful and admired of the age , used a heavy musket which was generally regarded as the worst in Europe . |
| 15 | The human rights situation in Guatemala , a major stumbling block in the peace negotiations , was regarded as the worst in the region . |
| 16 | The sun is often treated as an animate in English : to refer to its warm breath is to extend the metaphor . |
| 17 | Sharp increases are also expected during the 1990s in Europe 's use of motor vehicles , fertilisers and water . |
| 18 | Visitors to a major stamp fair in Brackenhoe School , Marton Road , Middlesbrough , today will have a chance to win a copy of a Victorian Penny Black regarded as the oldest in the world in a raffle . |
| 19 | Extensive volcanism occurred during the Ordovician in the Lake District and Wales ( and also in the concealed Lower Palaeozoic rocks to the east of the Midlands Microcraton ) as southward subduction of the lapetus Ocean floor continued . |
| 20 | He always looks for the best in people or in any given situation . |
| 21 | I suspect that were I to appear of a sudden in royal regalia , crown , sceptre and all , it would be a different story ! ’ |
| 22 | Incidents have been reported in the Caribbean in three of the last four years . |
| 23 | The day when McQuaid always used to come from the fair in Mohill and we had to make the big tea . ’ |
| 24 | After parting from Madame Gebrec , Melissa returned to the library with the intention of working there for the rest of the afternoon , but time and again she found her mind straying from the accounts of former religious wars and the acts of unbelievable cruelty committed by both sides to the more recent clash of ideologies which , it seemed to her , differed from the old in little but the relative sophistication of the weaponry . |
| 25 | Agreement-marking " you know what I mean " and " you know " are well-established in JC ( see Sebba and Tate 1986 ) but have never been reported before the 1980s in any type of British English in Britain . |
| 26 | They moved to the Caribbean in 1984 after Mr Clarke 's mother left him a small banana plantation in her will . |
| 27 | A girl was sunbathing on a lounger in the courtyard outside Culley 's window . |
| 28 | It is not entirely without foundation : holidaying on the cheap in such places as super-smart St Moritz , Zermatt and Gstaad is next to impossible , whatever the tourist offices there might say . |
| 29 | This is where I performed my gravity-defying experiments with the wind before returning to the cliff-top in the company of a couple of other walkers who , like me , were thoroughly enjoying these extraordinary conditions . |
| 30 | The Northern Constabulary deputy chief constable , Finlay Maclennan , said : ‘ The matter was fully investigated by a senior officer from the Northern Constabulary and reported to the fiscal in Fort William . |