Example sentences of "[prep] front of a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end of the table from Dowd , sitting in front of a heap of newspapers doubtless carrying the Burke reports , sat a professorial man in his sixties , white hair oiled to his scalp . |
| 2 | If rest and relaxation are purely passive — from flopping in front of a TV to meditation on emptying the mind — we are no longer in control of what enters our minds or unconscious . |
| 3 | Plenty of guys in this racket have found themselves in front of a jury for a lot less than picking a dame up off the floor . |
| 4 | A fresco that is barely visible because of the darkness of the interior , and the effect of smoke from centuries of candles burning in front of a statue of Our Lady of Sorrow , shows the Triumph of Souls and dates from the turn of the seventeenth-century . |
| 5 | He went back into the church , sat down in a chair in front of a statue of the Virgin . |
| 6 | He drew up in front of a pair of wrought-iron gates where he was immediately challenged by a bearded man wearing jeans and a faded black T-shirt . |
| 7 | They drew up in front of a pair of steel gates topped with spikes . |
| 8 | Our picture shows retail director standing in front of a fraction of the number of lorries at Buntingford depot that the Penny Back Scheme has kept off the road . |
| 9 | Ostyaks ( Khantys ) swore in front of a bearskin on which were laid an axe , a knife and some bread . |
| 10 | Our reactions in front of a work of art are simply too complex to be analysed scientifically . |
| 11 | I think he knew when he truly found himself in front of a work of art . |
| 12 | A man fell from a clifftop at Brighton early yesterday and landed only feet in front of a jogger on a path . |
| 13 | well , that 's a good point you see somebody who has slogged their way for a decade through messy complicated family litigation or have even represented myself in court in front of a judge in the court of session and one , and I 'm very proud of this I did this last May um I know how tough the going is |
| 14 | The period of the Spanish Civil War will feature ‘ Man and Woman in front of a pile of excrement ’ ( 1935 , Fundació Joan Miró , Barcelona ) and ‘ Une etoile caresse le sein d'une negresse ’ ( 1938 , Tate Gallery ) . |
| 15 | We manoeuvred the TV in front of a couple of sofas . |
| 16 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 17 | Sailors perform in man-on-man heats in front of a panel of judges showing off their jumping , riding and turning skills in the waves . |
| 18 | Freestyle is a form of trick sailing where the sailor performs a routine in front of a panel of judges , similar to ice skating or gymnastics . |
| 19 | He will now travel to Manchester for the North of England final at the end of this month when he will cook his dishes in front of a panel of judges . |
| 20 | Tomorrow , he 's going to be travelling to Birmingham to cook a meal in front of a panel of experts . |
| 21 | Seems she just stepped off the pavement to get in front of a row of people and … ’ |
| 22 | The final show in the Inspirals ' foray into Finland takes place under clouded skies , on an enormo stage , in front of a field of fully of happily drunk hippy kids who , when they walk on stage , appear to be principally interested in fighting each other , or lying on their backs staring at the clouds . |
| 23 | It would have been inconsiderate of the King and his wife to spare them their self-imposed task ; to dismiss the sweating craftsmen to their homes to enjoy the feast-time in front of a longfire with their wives and children , or drinking with the Earl in his comfortable timber hall , well fired and warmly hung , on the opposite shore . |
| 24 | She was kneeling in front of a case of fine linen which Burun had brought for her from Kinsai . |
| 25 | The planes collided in mid-air in front of a quarter of a million people . |
| 26 | Christie 's auctioneer Colin Sheaf mounted his rostrum in front of a wall of 1,100 blue and white vases . |
| 27 | Sultry looks had been a speciality of hers for some years , so much so that Matthew sometimes wondered whether she practised them in front of a mirror for ten minutes each day . |
| 28 | Stand in front of a mirror on one leg and watch your eyes in the mirror . |
| 29 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 30 | Computer aided instruction ( C.A.I. ) strictly should cover other techniques such as simulation and computer based procedures but it is usually intended to mean a situation where a student sits in front of a screen on which the presented formats relate to his developing cognitive activity as expressed by his manipulations of the associated key-board . |