Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in his Edward Thomas , R.P. Eckert argues that the young Edward had explored the Surrey and Wiltshire countryside in solitude with a fantasy companion called Philip who later reappeared as ‘ The Other Man ’ in In Pursuit of Spring and , even more noticeably , in Thomas 's early poem The Other . |
| 2 | Once the final details made of icing sugar are stuck in in place with water … it 's time to put the whole thing together . |
| 3 | His concept in In Search of Paradise bids to be over-ambitious though beautiful and certainly a welcome oasis in an otherwise arid week . |
| 4 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 5 | Mr Roberts said Manweb would seek to keep its own costs down in preparation for VAT . |
| 6 | If it 's a pest , cull it properly , get the authorities in , we 've got more and more specialists sitting in those chambers telling us what to do on farming issues , on B S E , we 've got coming , we 've got a a team of experts , well not one of them has told said gone down in favour of hunting . |
| 7 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 9 | The option of a room at the five-star Grand Hotel was turned down in favour of bed and breakfast in St George 's Terrace . |
| 10 | The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home . |
| 11 | There had been reports on April 2 that a meeting to discuss the formation of a more representative government had broken down in disagreement between Crown Prince Saad and representatives of a coalition of merchant groups , Islamic parties and former members of parliament . |
| 12 | The press reported in detail the ordeal which rape survivors must undergo in the court situation — GIRL WEEPS AFTER 90-MINUTE RAPE QUIZ — when one of the girls broke down in court during questioning . |
| 13 | East Germany 's workers ' militias , which have 400,000 members , are standing by all over the country to help to clamp down in case of trouble . |
| 14 | Within seconds one of the porters was knocking at the door to escort us down in case of trouble . |
| 15 | Inside the ark were the tablets of the law — the supreme verbal statement of God 's holiness ( 26:16 ) ; at one and the same time the reason why God dwelt alone ( for none can match his holiness ) , and why by means of blood a sinner might enter his presence ( for the blood speaks of life laid down in payment for sin ) . |
| 16 | John got down in front of Dad and looked up into his face and said , ‘ It 's our flight . ’ |
| 17 | Here , operational procedures have to be set down in advance in order to specify areas of accountability and standards of performance ; there must be a monitoring system to feed back information on performance to the right authority centres , and arrangements to correct operational activity in the light of any shortcomings . |
| 18 | Haul out section from Times brought along in case of dispute : |
| 19 | Government by minority is usually bad government ; in no truly democratic country could a disaster like the poll tax have been pushed through in defiance of public opinion , wasting billions of pounds and causing misery to millions of people . |
| 20 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 21 | Okay we started off and we was talking about the fact that when we perceive things they start off in origin as energy signals in the environment and we detect those changes in the energy and somewhere in the process they get converted into our experiences of perception . |
| 22 | Posing as the authors of a book on fisheries of the world , Thornton and Higgs , accompanied by an interpreter , set off in search of evidence of the continuing carnage . |
| 23 | Before you load up your board on the car to go off in search of solitude , remember that it is wisest to sail in a controlled situation with plenty of others to keep an eye on you . |
| 24 | But while he has anguished over his role in life , to the point where it would surprise no one if he just threw in the towel tomorrow and went off in search of obscurity , Steffi appears to have suffered no such agonies and self-doubt . |
| 25 | As we see it therefore , the county council is not turning the tap off in respect of migration led development , and it is not being e too generous . |
| 26 | Rock bottom : Ex-con strips off in protest at benefit refusal . |
| 27 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 28 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 29 | In the late Eighties Jeremy Ridgway and David Bennett , Zimbabwe-born but living in London , produced the ‘ Cum ’ paintings which were made up in part from semen and shown in New York . |
| 30 | Gower , who will be going to India as a commentator for BSkyB and could find himself being called up in case of injury , said : ‘ It 's a boost to one 's morale to know people care . ’ |