Example sentences of "[noun] in [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now erm all the gifts that you give at Confirmation the whole idea of Confirmation in well one of the main ideas of Confirmation is taking on board for yourself what your parents promised for you in baptism . |
| 2 | The crucifix which used to adorn the portrait of the Protestant patriot Robert Emmet in so many of the simple homes of Ireland symbolised the ennoblement of failure . |
| 3 | The Agrokomerc affair has undermined public confidence in almost all of the political and financial institutions of Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | ‘ Defecting ’ , for a wasp , would mean laying eggs in too many of the flowers in a fig and pollinating too few of them . |
| 5 | I talked to members of Wingates Band , who said that there is no set plan — this could account for the apparent chaos — but the idea is to take part in as many of the competitions as possible . |
| 6 | We know that lead was mined by the Brigantes because after the battle of Stanwick and the defeat of Venutius in AD 74 by the Ninth Spanish Legion under Petilius Cerialis , many of the defeated warriors were taken as slaves to work the lead-mines at Hurst in Swaledale and Greenhow Hill in Wharfedale , where lead pigs bearing Roman markings , probably stolen by native workers , have been unearthed from their hiding places . |
| 7 | Apart from the battle of Qadesiyah in AD 637 during the original advance of Islam , so frequently invoked by Iraq as a source of inspiration in the more recent conflict with Iran , Persians and the inhabitants of what is today Iraq have been making forays into one another 's territory for centuries . |
| 8 | ‘ Although Stanford had met Brahms , it was quite likely that Mühlfeld was n't keen to play the concerto because of its derivative aspects — there is still that unique Irish/Gallic quality in so much of the writing . |
| 9 | A US government report has shown that lead levels in almost one-fifth of the nation 's largest municipal water systems , including some serving Washington and suburban counties , exceed the safety standards set last year by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 10 | The loss of territorial control , with minority Russian populations in so many of the new countries , must have created a great deal of resentment , again not unlike Germany after World War l . |
| 11 | Information leakages were found to be smaller in chemicals than in other sectors , and for new process development decisions in virtually all of the industries in the sample ( see Mansfield et al. , |
| 12 | ( d ) St David 's Head Penmaen Dewi ) Described in a Roman survey of the known world in AD 140 as the ‘ Promontory of the Eight Perils ’ , this low but rugged headland looks W to the Bishop 's and Clerk 's Rocks . |
| 13 | The young obese individual who loses weight to normal or near-normal value may have a substantial improvement in life quality and expectancy , and reduction in risk in practically all of the above . |
| 14 | Several old mills survive , but of equal interest is the industrial housing in so many of the town 's streets . |
| 15 | Cytomegalovirus was associated with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in only two of the present patients in whom cryptosporidiosis was not also implicated and in less than a third overall ; these represent less than 10% of all cases of cytomegalovirus enteritis seen during the study period . |
| 16 | Problem : This giraffe is 5m tall , the rhinoceros in only ⅖ of the giraffe 's height . |