Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] in " in BNC.

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1 F/O Nicholls-Palmer 's shoot down of a Ju-88 in August 1943 is recreated atmospherically by M A Kinnear and is the subject of a very low print run ( 100 only ) entitled Brief Encounter from Artistic Flight .
2 Sadly , church people have often so dismally failed to get along with each other that they are powerless to get along with the needy in the world .
3 Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms .
4 A one-way system meant that out of season hold-ups were rare , but in the peak summer months when the holidaymakers poured in by the dozens in their hire cars the village often became jammed .
5 Much of Piffetti 's work is still to be found in the royal palaces of Turin , but several superb pieces , including two exquisite pedestals , drifted off to the Quirinal in Rome , and an altar-frontal of unbelievable complexity is in the Vatican .
6 Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 .
7 It was a clean up for the Irish in the Junior Drum Majors competition , with Darren McBride once again dominating the top placing , and J Elvin in third , A McKeown in fourth and R Elvin in fifth places .
8 His voice was muffled in serge , dressed up for the Arctic in cap and muffler .
9 Robert Dunlop says its a good team and on Easter friday he 'll be up against the best in the world … he 's a positive man and hopes to be British champion this year
10 How does the performance measure up against the best in the world ?
11 Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot .
12 ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said .
13 Especially built to haul heavily loaded trains up in the 1 in 29 bank to Walsingham , 2-6-0 and 0–6–2 No. 3 ‘ Norfolk Hero ’ poses at Wells after day 's work on May 6 .
14 Green 's own views carried a good deal of influence within another " extension movement " , the " settlements " , set up from the 1880s in London 's East End and other urban areas .
15 And , an update on that fifteen car pile up on the M-forty in Oxfordshire .
16 Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering .
17 Both driver ants and army ants have exceptionally large colonies , up to a million in army ants , up to about 20 million in driver ants .
18 With prices down by up to a third in some areas , there are many bargains around for the discerning buyer whether you fancy a converted barn or like the challenge of renovating .
19 In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk .
20 The study , ‘ Made in Britain : the true state of British manufacturing industry ’ , is a joint project by IBM Consulting Group and London Business School to test whether British manufacturers measure up to the best in the world .
21 If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ .
22 There are steeply progressive income taxes ( up by a third in 1990-91 ) , as well as property taxes that blatantly bleed companies to subsidise home-owners .
23 If we take a 10-year view , we see that manufacturing investment is up by a third in comparison with a similar part of the same cycle .
24 Just as important was the way in which , after the horrific Massacre of St Bartholomew in Paris in 1572 , the French Huguenots were driven to formulate a theory to justify their resistance to a Catholic ruler , a theory which was then taken up by the Dutch in their epoch-making resistance to Spanish rule in the Netherlands .
25 The structure turned out to be very durable ; most of the colonial constitutions set up by the British in the next three-and-a-half centuries show similarities to the Virginia Company 's way of doing things , though there were sometimes refinements , such as a legislative council created as an upper house to work with the assembly ; and in several cases — especially when the majority of the population was not of British descent — the legislative body was appointed rather than elected .
26 LASMO employees around the world could be linked up by the latest in high-tech communications as early as next year .
27 It would turn out for the best in the end ; it must .
28 Under it daimyo had to reside for one year out of every two in the capital , and leave their wives and families in permanent residence there .
29 He finished out of the top-20 in the US Open after a final round of 79 .
30 However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain .
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