Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 3 | Well nobody can see if you sit right in front of it , can they ? |
| 4 | Now he squatted , toad-like , by Berowne 's body , his hands hanging loosely in front of him , palely disembodied . |
| 5 | This beam is then focused by an acoustic lens , the melon , a fatty body situated right in front of the blow-hole and conspicuous by its presence in many cetaceans . |
| 6 | Of the 47 cases decided , Mr Platt ruled wholly in favour of the complainant in 18 and partly in four . |
| 7 | In my experience a great number of these are people who lacked little in terms of orthodox belief or depth of experience but who have never understood why their faith is true . |
| 8 | Over the last three years , the Stattauto ( " car alternative " ) scheme has involved 1,800 German families , banding together in groups of up to 30 people each to buy a car , which is then rented out among the group at the rate of US$2 per hour — substantially cheaper than commercial rates . |
| 9 | The scientific evidence may be lacking , but there is a colossal body of anecdotal evidence in favour of ESP — and there are few people who , in honesty , can not recall one or more instances in which they themselves have had an experience which they can explain only in terms of it . |
| 10 | But heightened sensitivity on this point can not be explained entirely in terms of the need to tighten ‘ social control ’ at a time of rapid economic change . |
| 11 | The contrast can not be explained entirely in terms of personalities ; nevertheless the characters of the rulers concerned were of great importance in this connexion . |
| 12 | Bush repeated on Oct. 24 the comparison of Iraqi President Saddam Hussain with Hitler and denounced the " rape of Kuwait " and Iraqi " crimes against humanity " , while at a rally on Oct. 30 ( campaigning in support of Republicans in the mid-term congressional elections on Nov. 6 ) he gave warnings of the possibility of a US military offensive , urging the US public to " stay together in support of our kids halfway around the world " . |
| 13 | These were truths and remain so in spite of the fallacious ideological baggage with which they are mixed up . |
| 14 | A referential symbol , it might be argued , refers only in virtue of what it means , i.e. it necessarily carries a descriptive content . |
| 15 | Any hypothetical choice situation which requires agreement among the parties will have to impose strong restrictions on the grounds of choice , and these restrictions can be justified only in terms of a conception of the good . |
| 16 | But for a beetle who can think only in terms of two dimensions , it does appear to shrink . |
| 17 | It seems clear then that life , at least as we know it , can exist only in regions of space-time in which one time and three space dimensions are not curled up small . |
| 18 | Further hospital clinic follow up is arranged only in cases of particular need ; otherwise the patient is discharged back to prompted community care . |
| 19 | We suggested there that the strategy available to him would be , on the one hand , to work predictively in terms of his previous experience ( similar speakers , similar genres , etc. ) and on the other hand to examine the content of the text . |
| 20 | A number of semantic theories have been discussed ; these are shown to differ widely in terms of their representational aspects . |
| 21 | All there in , in line with his prophecy , way back in Isaiah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men , with with law breakers , and here it is , it 's happening right in front of th the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the Jewish authorities . |
| 22 | Break down and cry right in front of you ? |
| 23 | On this basis the Council issued a statement the following year on Procedure for Validation of Courses of Study , the kernel of which was the CNAA 's wish to respond differently to institutions which themselves differed widely in range of work and in experience : ‘ an application from a college where the staff for the proposed course is of known academic quality and experience may not require the same scrutiny of detail by the Council as in other cases ’ . |
| 24 | Her eyes flickered nervously in anticipation of the eruption of that anger . |
| 25 | For some reason , he disliked it when she behaved badly in front of Marjorie . |
| 26 | Computer staff at the Royal Bank of Scotland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a series of one day strikes.If they decide to take industrial action it will result in the shutdown of the Bank 's computer system and the closure of their Cashline network . |
| 27 | Extensive floods are now uncommon and short-lived , occurring only in times of heavy and prolonged rain . |
| 28 | Indeed , pastorals and georgics in the generation before Duck 's emergence had varied greatly in degrees of artificiality . |
| 29 | direct debits under the instruction will be originated only in respect of premiums payable as notified in advance and agreed by you ; |
| 30 | In his article 169 letter , the European Commissioner stated that it was important that the rail link and the station should be considered together in terms of the environmental impact assessment if the European Community directive , signed by the Government and agreed to by this country , were to be met . |