Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1860s the energy of the radicals was absorbed for the most part in rebellion against the values and conventions of the educated world from which they sprang . |
| 2 | It was a fast journey , and accomplished for the most part in silence , although Rohan did point out the entrance to the Château de Biron , as they flashed past . |
| 3 | He tried his hand at the Can-Am series in North America . |
| 4 | He should have done that before instead of insisting on our groping our way up the Pan-Am Highway in darkness and bad visibility . |
| 5 | The speculation follows a mildly tongue in cheek piece by Bill Brooker in the journal of the Scottish Mountaineering Club — the august guardians of Munro 's Tables . |
| 6 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 7 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 8 | According to Wickramasinghe , xenon at 40 atmospheres should provide a fivefold improvement in resolution over a water-coupled instrument . |
| 9 | She fills the main space with ‘ Isthmus ’ , a tall copper box seven and a half metres in length and rising to the gallery 's ceiling . |
| 10 | They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square . |
| 11 | It consists of an upright cylinder containing a twelve-inch piston with rod two and a half inches in diameter . |
| 12 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 13 | So on Saturday , Party Politics , dwarfing his 39 opponents , set off in new colours with new jockey Carl Llewellyn to see how many strides it would take him to cover the most famous four and a half miles in sport . |