Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The location should be well-placed with respect to the population , rather than off in deep countryside . |
| 2 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 3 | Far out , a sprinkling of small white birds swooped up and down in hurried flight before an ominous sky-darkening . |
| 4 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 5 | We climbed pure alpine style , which is very fast and light , and got up and down in one piece . |
| 6 | Certainly in the class-room those from two feet to two feet only go straight up and down in all changements , soubresauts and entrechats with both legs fully extended at the height of the jump . |
| 7 | Some soared up and down in gentle arcs : some shot horizontally : some rocketed high into the sky , then turned about and suddenly plummeted . |
| 8 | Heinrich felt possessively protective as he recognised Emily 's head in a mob cap , the rest of her splashing up and down in grey sage knickers , tunic and blouse and black stockings . |
| 9 | She looked him up and down in open disgust . |
| 10 | The numbers have not , however , fallen significantly , and in 1977 there were still 44,100 adults aged sixteen and over in mental handicap hospitals in England , and recent decreases in these numbers have not been anywhere near as rapid as successive governments have proposed would be the case . |
| 11 | ‘ Somewhere past Portugal , and over in that direction must be the north-west coast of Africa . |
| 12 | Censuses of those aged 65 years and over in any type of residential care at midnight on 11 December 1979 and 27 November 1990 . |
| 13 | The proportion of people aged 65 years and over in residential care in Leicestershire was 4.2% in 1979 and 4.7% in 1990 , similar to the national level of around 5% . |
| 14 | In these songs , the great variety of cries and moans are repeated over and over in ordered patterns built around a basic unit or syllable that is equivalent to a note in our music . |
| 15 | Table I.3 Number and percentage of those aged 60 and over in three age bands at various periods , United Kingdom ( millions ) |
| 16 | Yet the proportion of the total population aged 65 and over in this category is estimated from the NDHS for each Authority and is now ten years out of date , during which period there has been a significant increase in the numbers of elderly , including the very old . |
| 17 | In both methods the light source is either varied in intensity , as an analogue of the signal , or switched on and off in digital code . |
| 18 | ‘ Everything was on and off in those days . |
| 19 | Then he started to pick off his rivals , but time was slipping by and up in front outsider nd to Mill Reef in the Eclipse , Miss Dan , two lengths behind Nijinsky when third in the Arc in 1970 , Bourbon , who had won the Prix Royal-Oak ( the French St Leger ) and Irish Ball , who , though third to Mill Reef in the Derby and unplaced in the King George , had between those two races won the Irish Derby at The Curragh . |
| 20 | Access : can one be sure of getting in and out in all weathers ? |
| 21 | They feared bodies would be shifted in and out in full view of young children and collected a 1,000-signature petition . |
| 22 | Robyn peered through a Perspex window and watched things moving round and going in and out in sudden spasms , lubricated by spurts of a liquid that looked like milky coffee . |
| 23 | Tomorrow he may come in for a steak , but needs to be in and out in ten minutes . |
| 24 | It may seem surprising nonetheless to claim that the infinitive event is represented as a mere potentiality in uses with the modal auxiliaries in past contexts such as : ( 9 ) When he was young , he could swim across the lake and back in 10 minutes . |
| 25 | Four hamstring operations and two bouts of knee surgery later , Ian Snodin is back and back in central midfield . |
| 26 | In 1926 Lt Commander Richard Byrd flew from Spitzbergen to the North Pole and back in 16 hours . |
| 27 | This is not to say , of course , that the age of the corporate brewery — or multinational — will not return : in SAVE and CAMRA 's 1983 report , Nikolaus Boulting wisely warned that future students of interior design may find ‘ that the cycle is complete , from company identity to corporate image and back in three generations ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ On a Saturday morning , ’ Patrick said , ‘ I should be able to make the City and back in three hours . ’ |
| 29 | We do n't provide formal instruction , but novices pick up a lot by sailing out and back in light winds . |
| 30 | Its head bowed , its wings half open and useless , it was very , very wearily steering itself round and round in hopeless circles . |