Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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1 | So always work out in your mind that nobody has right of way in those circumstances . |
2 | But GEC 's interest lies only in use in instruments like lasers , VDUs and radar equipment . |
3 | The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age . |
4 | The baby 's due in August , but the DJ with the most popular radio show in Britain already looks quite at home in his role of first time father-to-be . |
5 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
6 | He says apart from drill in the sense of head-counts , turn your back to the blast area and sitting on the ground covering your eyes and so on — none whatsoever . |
7 | It 's really the calorie content which should make you careful — and the knowledge that a steady stream of alcohol acts much like caffeine in coffee , slowing down the action of the liver and thus , our metabolic rate . |
8 | The development of play leads naturally towards involvement in games , which begin in imitative practice such as tying a shoelace , and develop towards symbolic constructions such as of villages or weddings . |
9 | It concentrates particularly upon benefit in terms of deferment of long-term or short-term institutionalisation ( Was the project successful in sustaining at home people who without the enhanced care would have been in institutional care earlier ? ) . |
10 | By defining retirement as coterminous with dependency , the ‘ structured dependency ’ authors inevitably see the trend towards earlier retirement as regrettable , but in fact it need not be so : this depends on the extent to which retirement leads subsequently to poverty in old age , and to discover this it is necessary to look at the other three main determinants of the financial status of the elderly . |
11 | Honecker sees parallel with unrest in Peking |
12 | Another area in which Wales differs clearly from practice in England is that of teacher-training for further education . |
13 | Nobody gets away with murder in this City . ’ |
14 | The latter , although a mainly psychic state ( albeit drug induced ) , can be mistaken for non-responsiveness because of the patient 's agitation and apparent suffering ; it responds rapidly to reduction in opioid dosage . |
15 | In both countries , press attention varies directly with involvement in mainline politics . |
16 | Durkheim 's social theory differs sharply from Marxism in several respects . |
17 | He seems most at home in the thick of a hectic scrap for victory . |
18 | It appears widely in panelling in office , shop and bank fittings , and also in the manufacture of traditional inlay motifs , lines and bandings . |
19 | Preformationists held that there must be , in the egg , a miniature but perfectly formed adult : ‘ development ’ then consists merely of growth in size . |
20 | The chapel choir of Christ 's College , Cambridge , also performs tomorrow at evensong in Darlington parish church , followed by a concert at 8pm . |
21 | All this advice applies equally to argument in real cases . |
22 | She seems very at home in her skin . |
23 | Such claims always have a point which goes well beyond instruction in English usage . |
24 | After 200 yds and immediately after track bends right through break in hedge turn left ( waymarked ) proceeding alongside hedge on left . |
25 | Grandmothers are remembered twice as often as grandfathers — principally because they survived longer ; but it would seem that physical survival coincides here with salience in the memory . |
26 | Tomorrow the agenda focuses specifically on violence in prisons , something that 's been a problem at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire where prison officers have been the subject of attacks by prisoners in recent months . |
27 | Boswell 's rendering of the Loch Ness day skips ahead to lunch in a pub then their overnight stay with the deputy Governor of Fort Augustus . |
28 | Over the past few years , however , live colouration has become an important criterion in taxonomy , and as synspilum differs markedly from melanurum in this respect , and has a different distribution , it is now once again generally considered a separate species , albeit probably very closely-related . |
29 | Readily identified in flight by distinctive anchor-like outline of long wings and rather short tail , and characteristic fast , winnowing wing-beats , followed by a glide ; also frequently soars , indulges in aerobatics , and swoops steeply on prey in a power dive . |
30 | Then , as now , most people wanted to be able to experience the constancy and trust that comes only with faithfulness in a relationship . |