Example sentences of "in the front " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I believe it is especially important that ACET represents the Church working in the front line to provide real and practical support .
2 ‘ If there is to be an effective Christian response to AIDS we need to support organisations like ACET who are in the front line giving practical care and support . ’
3 Moscow , USSR : At the same time , 12,000 miles away , a delegation from Amnesty 's International Secretariat is making plans for a fledgling Moscow Group to participate in the Women in the Front Line campaign .
4 By the 8th June , I was back in the front line .
5 All this is now due to change and it is , not surprisingly , the smaller , less profitable and traditionally-run tenanted houses that are in the front line for disposal .
6 I thought I saw someone moving in the front room .
7 Come in , come and sit in the front room .
8 Both these plants are hardy and although not in the front rank of ornamentals , are worth growing in a large border or even on the bank of a stream or lake provided they are kept away from the wet margin .
9 I walked in the front door of the Department and the receptionist said ‘ Good morning , Mr Illingsworth , ’ which she never normally did .
10 Sara and I are in the front bedroom .
11 She took an old carpet , filled it with soil and put it in the front room , where Annie and her brother spent the day .
12 This is especially pronounced in the front bent versions where this elbow acts as a lever , ‘ kicking ’ the cutting edge off the surface , and forcing a more awkward cutting position .
13 Here in the front cloth she is seen at her embroidery , sadly waiting and earning her living to pay off the Rake 's debts .
14 Some people even leave notes on the front door for a delivery man — you might as well put an invitation in the front garden .
15 The caption alongside notes that George Davies , aged 19 , is in the front row on the far right .
16 Other companies in the front line are British Aerospace , Smiths Industries and NEI .
17 Firstly pictures of their lead singer , Ben Volpierre Pierrot , have stopped appearing in the front sections of Sunday newspaper supplements captioned by bad puns on his name , and secondly the single from this album is all about leaving messages on an answering machine .
18 Mr Jumblatt 's forces , together with the Syrians , were in the front line of the confrontation with Christian forces — General Aoun 's ‘ war of liberation ’ - which began in March and lasted until the Arab League-sponsored ceasefire last month .
19 For the first time this season , Paul Rendall and Jeff Probyn are paired together in the front row in a switch of policy aimed at tightening up the pack .
20 Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road .
21 The boot is lined with soft Cambrelle in the front half while the heel areas has a soft leather lining .
22 In the 1970s , Henderson argued , Britain was clearly not in the front rank , even as a European power , with its declining economy and lack of investment in managerial and engineering resources .
23 It therefore required no feat of prophecy to assert that long before the twentieth century was out , the United Kingdom would be a country without empire and not in the front rank in size and power , and yet that this would not be synonymous with disaster , dishonour or extinction .
24 The cinema was bereft of carpets and we all could hear , for what seemed an eternity , was the doleful roll of each Malteser down the incline to its nemesis beneath the feet of the people in the front row .
25 We had to be there one hour before the beginning of the film in order to get seats in the front row .
26 It was a toss up whether to try for acceptance in the front row ranks , or work towards qualifying for the back row .
27 They 'd cart a case of beer and their heavy saddles into the cinema under the cloak of darkness and , sitting astride their saddles in the front row , would cheer on the cowboys and ride rough with them , Waikato 4X in one hand and their stetsons in the other .
28 Straight off the London train and in the front door .
29 Some of us , including Beth , sat in the front row .
30 All those girls in the front row , that kind of thing .
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