Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tory performance was in fact one and a half percentage points better in The Economist 's regular sample of provincial English districts than it was three years ago , at the height of the rebellion against Mrs Thatcher 's poll tax ( see table 1 ) . |
| 2 | Only the pain was getting rather tedious and Meg insisted that I had it done now before I retired , on the theory I suppose , that better in the Government 's time than my own . " |
| 3 | Masnun was out of sight from a poor draw in his last race at Kempton , but ran much better in the Stewards ' Cup here and he 's well in today on his best form . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Harry ! ’ she said suddenly in a child 's wail of reproach , and fell on her knees by him , flinging her arms round him . |
| 5 | As Gabriel took his seat at the top of the pageant , hidden by a wooden cloud , Garvey robed himself down below in the Mason 's wedding robe , and Izzie emerged from nowhere to mend the tear in the shoulder-seam . |
| 6 | They were in the dining-room , and Celia was directly below in the basement 's kitchen . |
| 7 | People lived and died there ; they did not grow old there , because no one could live for very long in the Robemaker 's hands . |
| 8 | Both trends are well attested at Water Newton , especially in the Kate 's Cabin suburb , as well as at Ilchester and at Bath , where the appearance of mosaics might indicate some level of intramural concentration of wealth . |
| 9 | According to a report by the non-government Human Rights Commission of Pakistan released on Aug. 18 , thousands of children were being forced into bonded labour , especially in the country 's brick-making and carpet-weaving industries . |
| 10 | Bridge , on the other hand , was possessed of an urbanity of manner which proved of the greatest importance , especially in the firm 's dealings with George III and other members of the royal family . |
| 11 | Merson drew special attention to the spread of AIDS among women , especially in the world 's poorest regions , saying that " by the year 2000 , more than half of all newly infected adults may be women " . |
| 12 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 13 | But leaving aside instances of momentary irritation , of which there were many , as all field-workers must expect , most respondents became confident enough in the field-worker 's presence to express what were undoubtedly widely held fears about the research . |
| 14 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 15 | Mid-season , Honda had become confident enough in the Dutchman 's ability to equip his RS with a much-prized HRC kit and he finished top privateer in the World Championships . |
| 16 | A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world . |
| 17 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 18 | For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key . |
| 19 | But when I saw Bullitt , I thought , ‘ This was n't the script either , it was all in the director 's head . ’ |
| 20 | And here it is : I have proof that Neil Kinnock once spent a night of passion alone in a miner 's cottage with a well-known writer . |
| 21 | She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room . |
| 22 | The 28-year-old woman was walking alone in the town 's Templehill area at around 12:30am when she was grabbed from behind outside a funeral parlour and indecently assaulted her before escaping on foot . |
| 23 | Erm and come back to you , perhaps in a week 's time and you talk me through those recommendations . |
| 24 | Although Anker Simmons was one of the original quartet and chaired the first meeting , he does not figure greatly in the Club 's affairs after the first few months . |
| 25 | It 's obviously in the Treasury 's mind and that there will be a factor that is taken into consideration when they do their , er arithmetic er , er about the economy and in the run up to the budget if we can look that far ahead . |
| 26 | It is obviously in the husband 's interest that the mortgagee receives a covenant from the wife to observe and perform the terms of the mortgage as this will put the mortgagee on further notice as to the primary responsibility notwithstanding that the husband is not released . |
| 27 | So in a way yo you 're doing different hours and all so your pay , was that based on forty hour week ? |
| 28 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) was for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic ’ This point is proved by stating so in the constable 's or warden 's statement of evidence , e.g. ‘ I was engaged in the regulation of traffic to allow pedestrians to cross safely ’ . |
| 29 | Again , the influence of Cleveland is clear , and even more so in the child 's new right to refuse a medical examination , if of an age and understanding to do so . |
| 30 | However , what we 're gon na do , is usually at nine o'clock in the morning er , ready to start filming . |