Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Boss Richard Holland , who calls the tune at Boosey , say that the group traditionally feels the effects of recession late in the cycle . |
| 32 | Only the ship 's personae , through some elusive twist of code deep in the programming , were enabled to master the Capellan drive . |
| 33 | He watched , aware of a whole vocabulary of gesture there in the dialogue between the two men : conscious not just of what they said but of how they said it ; how their eyes met or did not meet ; how a shared smile would suddenly reveal the depths of their mutual understanding . |
| 34 | By yesterday evening the largest lender , the Halifax , which held out a glimmer of hope earlier in the day that it could stick with its 13.5 per cent rate , acknowleged a rise was inevitable . |
| 35 | The pattern is also distinctively different in the Faculty of Divinity ( see the section on the Faculty of Divinity later in the prospectus ) . |
| 36 | It is a metaphor of order both in the sense of ordering experience and of an ordered social structure . |
| 37 | But they raised the question of authority only in the most ambiguous terms : ‘ we have yet made no mention of change in authority nor has it even entered our hearts , but seeing that France and the Queen Regent here , her priests , etc. , intend nothing but suppressing Christ 's evangel … we are fully purposed to seek the next remedy and withstand their tyranny ’ . |
| 38 | Other views look outwards : they are concerned with helping the child with the needs of language elsewhere in the curriculum , or in the outside world of work . |
| 39 | It is therefore especially ironical that the neurophysiological CTP , which locates the basis of perception literally in the head , at a particular place away from the perceived object , actually sharpens the mystery of intentionality . |
| 40 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 41 | Rail service providers would have an automatic right of access anywhere in the EC so that , for example , a UK-German rail link could not be prevented from using Dutch or Belgian tracks . |
| 42 | It leads the unconverted and naive step by step into understanding — and then stares the brutality of apartheid straight in the face . |
| 43 | ( The shape of the monkey could be discerned by the eye of prejudice even in the Chinese and Japanese , as witness many a modern cartoon . ) |
| 44 | A high hedge separated the garden from the adjoining apple orchard , and a massive horse chestnut tree completely umbrellad the whole area , giving it an aura of serenity even in the dark . |
| 45 | For all courses , both pre- and in-service , only eight examples were offered , and only four more could be gleaned from examination of information elsewhere in the questionnaire returns . |
| 46 | We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded . |
| 47 | Cranes nest on the ground , building a mound of vegetation usually in the middle of a swamp . |
| 48 | The man had enjoyed a blip of peyote earlier in the day , and there was a mild , dreamy look on his face , a look of effortless tolerance ; but his hand was steady . |
| 49 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 50 | What then are the main problems of crofting today in the areas I have delineated ? |
| 51 | Using functional notation , we can write However , since it takes time for firms to adjust their capital stocks in response to changes in demand ( remember that capital is a variable factor of production only in the long-run ) , it may be more realistic to introduce a lag into the accelerator part of the function and write Only empirical testing can determine which of the three independent variables is the most important . |
| 52 | It must therefore be accompanied by an acceptance by the nuclear powers of ( 1 ) a renunciation of their use , including ( and especially ) a pledge of no-first-strike even in the event of a conventional attack ; and ( 2 ) the acceptance of a duty to disarm . |
| 53 | There is hardly a spadeful of soil anywhere in the world that does not contain some of them . |
| 54 | According to sources close to Mr Mandela himself , the first two men out will be Wilton Mkwayi and Elias Motsoaledi , a very influential member of the ANC old guard with positions of leadership both in the union movement and in the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe . |
| 55 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 56 | This indicates that thermal convection ( section 2.2.2 ) is the dominant mode of upward heat transfer , and that there are powerful sources of heat deep in the atmosphere . |
| 57 | And fax machines that enable you to send and receive pages of information anywhere in the world — in seconds . |
| 58 | Favourites , reform commissions and ordinances had come and gone with no sign of improvement either in the king 's government or in public order ; indeed , the realm was now in a state of virtual brigandage . |
| 59 | Indeed , when at last he tossed aside his pen , sat back in his chair and raised his eyes to hers , there was a hint of amusement deep in the dark eyes . |
| 60 | She had never seen either him , or Miss Mates , take a drop of alcohol before in the weeks which she had already spent in Vetch Street . |