Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Hence , the person who used the sulk response successfully in the past will continue to use it , because it worked .
2 ‘ There is a change somewhere in the east .
3 ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case .
4 Our education programme changes attitudes slowly in an environment where selfish values grow even faster .
5 A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties .
6 In Market Weighton , East Yorkshire , there is a markstone right in the middle of the town , opposite the church , and in Pembridge , Herefordshire , Watkins found a markstone next to the market house .
7 Another writer with a far briefer experience of life under sail , John Masefield , stands by contrast right in the centre of the convention of action and narrative in which the glory of adventure-story lies ; for at least one period of his life Masefield would have agreed , as Conrad would not , that he was a ‘ writer of sea-stories ’ .
8 Before an opportunity is actually found there is usually a preliminary sense that there is an opportunity somewhere in the area .
9 Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ?
10 The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber .
11 Spectators are advised to leave their cars in the multi-story car park right in the centre of Abingdon ; they then have a short walk along Park Road to the Amey Hall .
12 It never , however , approved the celebration of the Mass wholly in the vernacular , Eucharistic prayer and all .
13 She tied up her ribbons and laid William gently in the cradle before saying , ‘ I think he will sleep now .
14 I get to my feet and go over to the window , easing back the soft material , looking at the houses opposite in the half-light .
15 Anti-communism thus united the interests of the US Occupation , the Japanese state and private employers especially in the face of a united front of public and private sector workers .
16 Sistem is initially targeted at customer support Hot Lines and internal Help Desks much in the fashion of start-ups Aurum and ProActive Software .
17 arabiensis in the Sudan , show resistance to malathion only in the adult stage and it seems evident that such resistance was not in fact selected by agricultural usage .
18 As I recall , then , it was only an hour or so after being first entrusted with the mission that I noticed the young Mr Cardinal alone in the library , sitting at one of the writing tables , absorbed in some documents .
19 He scores more goals , is a better passer , a better tackler , 100 times better in the air — but most of all , he has a decent haircut .
20 It 's no use going on a six day trail ride , with six hours daily in the saddle , if all you want is some gentle hacking in a scenic setting , with perhaps a few longer pub rides as an added bonus .
21 Just 20 minutes daily in the privacy of your home will develop an amazing physique .
22 … and it does mean that I think there is a pressure perhaps grows out of that to make you articulate clearly why you are putting the course together in the way you are … which previously you could have got away with .
23 In McMurdo Sound , Antarctica , Tedrow and Ugolini ( 1966 ) and Tedrow ( 1977 ) estimated that shifts of 30–40°C occurred several times daily in the surface of rocks under summer sunshine , and Nichols and Ball ( 1964 ) found bare ahumic soils passing through the freeze-thaw cycle over a hundred times in the course of a summer .
24 You could begin your essay by acknowledging this and continue to work with the definitions throughout the essay , relating the different definitions together in the conclusion .
25 These are only used when you can sail the board competently in a Force 4 .
26 Stir in the yoghurt and honey together in a bowl until they are thoroughly combined .
27 The case that is usually made out for retention is that the House of Lords nevertheless discharges a valuable constitutional function especially in the processing of uncontroversial Bills and the revision of Bills passed , perhaps with undue haste and lack of consideration , by the House of Commons .
28 I 'm using 1985 figures because my encyclopedia 's a bit long in the tooth .
29 A real character , but getting a bit long in the tooth .
30 • Point taken about the computers , Joel , but let's be realistic — the Speccy was great in its day , but it 's a bit long in the tooth now .
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