Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why should he come down in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 2 | The most significant change in this respect is the slowing down in the 1980s of the decline in urban populations compared with the previous decade ( Champion , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | When comedy work has been thin on the ground , Allen has carved out a healthy career as a straight actor , popping up in the unlikeliest of places : as a minion of fictitious Prime Minister Harry Perkins in A Very British Coup , as an impeccably sleazy reporter in Scandal and most recently as permarandy Rex , the dyspeptic boss of Lyne Electronics in the BBC 's Making Out . |
| 4 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
| 5 | The little booklet , which is turning up in the oddest of places , tells us for instance that ‘ Butter is a natural product — alternatives are different . ’ |
| 6 | I was just far enough behind not to get caught up in the thick of it . |
| 7 | If so , HP could hit the full-motion video market long before its competitors and , with NT in tow , might wind up in the thick of the battle for dominance in the next wave of PCs . |
| 8 | SINEAD O'Connor grew up in the worst of environments and knows religion causes many of society 's problems . |
| 9 | So Benn scraped on in the seventh of seven places . |
| 10 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 11 | At a lecture in Nairobi given by Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , the world 's foremost authority on the rhino-horn trade , she heard him spell out in the starkest of terms why the rhino was on the slide . |
| 12 | Burford 's Trevor Smith … held on and held out in the worst of conditions to come home in twenty eighth spot … |
| 13 | After being locked out in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 14 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |
| 15 | But Collins was soon back in the thick of the action , fisting clear a McCaffrey free kick and throwing himself across his line to make a fine two handed stop from a Kavanagh volley . |
| 16 | They act as though no sexy young woman has ever trod those cobbled streets before , although the nubile daughter of the drunken town bully ( Peter Vaughan ) walks around in the mini-est of mini-skirts especially catching the eye of the long-haired village idiot ( David Warner ) , who has already molested young girls . |
| 17 | People moving about in the dead of night , poisons being administered in a locked room . |
| 18 | Gone are the roving gangs of party militants who would sneak round in the dead of night replacing other parties ' posters with their own and often clashing violently with rival gangs . |