Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Peace Now movement claimed on June 17 to have documentary evidence of Israeli plans for greatly increased settlement in the occupied territories . |
| 2 | But it is a strange life when one sees one 's friends for perhaps one month in the year , and then we all go our separate ways until we can grasp another opportunity — sometimes between flights at airports ! |
| 3 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 4 | For somewhat different reasons in each case , there is not entailment between I chose the first rose on the list and I chose the first flower on the list , nor between Mary was disappointed to receive a rose and Mary was disappointed to receive a flower ( perhaps she was expecting an orchid ? ) . |
| 5 | We distinguished between optional inferences ( not required for understanding discourse but naturally suggested once a discourse interpretation has been decided upon ) and bridging inferences ( necessary for establishing the links between apparently unrelated elements in the discourse ) . |
| 6 | Tracks make for much easier travelling in thick jungle , and the soft soil greatly aids silent movement . |
| 7 | But the records suggest that large flocks of Wigeon have stayed for much shorter periods in many inland localities since 1964 as a result of the generally drier conditions . |
| 8 | The best practice combines these two approaches — with the whole class working in the hall ( or drama room ) on a regular basis and small groups working for much shorter periods in the classroom . |
| 9 | Rapist David Lashley is beginning a life sentence for brutally murdering Janie in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1977 . |
| 10 | Resale price maintenance now exists for only two commodities in the UK : over-the-counter medicines — and books . |
| 11 | After their first year of service they were normally on active duty for only two months in each year . |
| 12 | Contrary to the usual practice elsewhere , ‘ less than £1 ’ means a few shillings leavened by a sporadic nil assessment , rather than the opposite , for only one man in nine was actually given as nil , the majority ranging from 3s. 4d. to 18s . |
| 13 | Home-school links , the promotion of which was originally considered important enough to make it one of the four original aims of PNP , accounted for only one teacher-day in every hundred devoted to primary INSET . |
| 14 | CHRIS EUBANK is at his most infuriating when he puts his natural aggression on hold and appears to fight for only one minute in every three . |
| 15 | Owing to his illness he was able to study for only one term in the next three years , although he did put his convalescence to good use , adding fluency in French , German and Italian to his other accomplishments , and attending lectures of the French physicist Dominique Arago at the Sorbonne . |
| 16 | As clouds of the invaders reached Texas , a U N fact-finding commission reported that the Odonata ( it now became their official name ) lived for only seven months in their adult winged phase . |
| 17 | The boy , Gregory Kingsley , gave evidence that his biological mother , with whom he had lived for only seven months in the eight years prior to the case , had neglected and abandoned him . |
| 18 | During holidays at The Milebrook I found once again the freedom I had known in Abyssinia , but now for only three months in the year . |
| 19 | Ceausescu singled out this minority for especially severe treatment in order to emphasise his nationalist credentials . |
| 20 | I took a small class of Bermondsey Girl Guides , and realized the nobility of girls who after working for so many hours in bad conditions were still loyal . |
| 21 | For E. B. Tylor ( 1832–1917 ) , as for so many believers in ‘ progress ’ who observed communities and cultures which , unlike fossil man , had not died out these were not so much inferior by nature as representatives of an earlier stage of evolution on the road to modern civilisation . |
| 22 | ‘ But I feel dismay , sorrow , for so many people in our country who do not share this personal good fortune and who as a result of further years of Tory government will experience further disadvantage . |
| 23 | ‘ The difficulty for so many people in towns is that most of the information about the countryside is in the country . |
| 24 | But he felt ‘ dismay and sorrow for so many people in our country who do not share this personal good fortune . ’ |
| 25 | I can not explain this sentiment unless it was that I observed that the members of the household appeared not to have perfectly learned their parts and also that having seen and known the Emperor for so many years in such a totally different position , his present one looked like a dream or a play ; but when each actor becomes acclimatized by time it will be a magnificent Court , with a Sovereign who will command the attention of all Europe . |
| 26 | What had she held for so many years in trust and secrecy ? |
| 27 | What it does have — and this is a very important thing for me , having lived for so many years in an isolated place — is a certain amount of privacy . |
| 28 | She knew in her heart that he had told the truth , and it had been herself at fault for so lacking trust in his integrity . |
| 29 | For Jenkins , who ousted Stephens last season only to lose his job through suspension and injury this winter , it will be a return to the big time after only one game in the past month . |
| 30 | After only two years in the same house as Minton , Vaughan wanted to escape . |