Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detailed phasing of this morphological information presents major problems in the absence of large-scale , modern excavations , but a recent reassessment of the early excavation reports has suggested that a major remodelling of the town centre occurred apparently in the mid to late second century . |
| 2 | ‘ But why should he come down in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 3 | Robert Jones sparkled , Tony Clement was constantly in the thick of things at fullback , whether kicking long and meaningfully or surging through on the counter-attack . |
| 4 | ‘ Firstly , they are both constantly in the thick of the action . |
| 5 | This presented a thought that made me shudder with fright : this awesome , eerie world-apart in the dead of night , unbearably cold , no moon or stars , merely the moan of the mysterious gods beneath the ice … |
| 6 | Despite the well-founded fear of the Securitate , for most of the period of Communist rule in Romania , the secret police was not in the front-line of control over the population . |
| 7 | Although not in the thick of it , she suffered some damage and lost seven killed and twenty-one wounded . |
| 8 | A considerable swell was breaking on the beach , so cameras were stowed in plastic bags and we surfed ashore in an inflatable in what is known as a ‘ wet landing ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You have not enquired as to the size of the fortune , ’ Colonel Moore said , in a tone which suggested that Hope was somehow in the wrong for this negligence . |
| 10 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 11 | Keke Rosberg and Alan Jones , among others , were always in the thick of things even when they were driving what each of them calls a ‘ shit-box ’ . |
| 12 | Lightning quick , fearless in the tackle and always in the thick of the action . |
| 13 | Michael Yule was prominent on the left wing for Jed while Parker and Shiel were always in the thick of the action when Melrose were on the move . |
| 14 | In practice , those with established political views will have no difficulty in recognising comments with which they disagree and putting them promptly in the Favourable to Them column . |
| 15 | Unfortunately Shackleton died whilst still in the Antarctic on 5 January 1922 , and so he never did search for the treasure . |
| 16 | The meal bore some resemblance to Filippo 's formula ; after about six courses you realise you 're still in the thick of the antipasto . |
| 17 | Mounted police were also in the thick of it , riding up and down , shouting at the marchers and attempting to discourage spectators from joining the demonstration . |
| 18 | I was just far enough behind not to get caught up in the thick of it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So far its class-based line has been almost exclusively animated by a critique of race awareness training — a practical strategy which has been thrown up in the grating between the first two tendencies . |
| 21 | There were a great number of these at different points along the Straits , but there were three that found themselves right in the thick of things . |
| 22 | She wanted in , right in the thick of it . |
| 23 | The recession has hit all industries and acting has been right in the thick of it . |
| 24 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 25 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 26 | Prices were lagging behind in the mid to late Eighties , rising in sympathy rather than on a burst of serious investment buying . |
| 27 | After being locked out in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 28 | Are we to assume then that he had now switched over from being an evangelist and was a deliberate artist in the making , out in the open for all to see ? |
| 29 | PFS expects to be back in the black for the full year . |
| 30 | 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 . |