Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They offered him hot wine and canella , surrounded him and talked eagerly in a mixture of Russian , French and Yiddish . |
| 2 | Fieldfares , redwing and song thrush sometimes flood the islands in thousands , and flocks are scanned eagerly in the hope of finding one of the rarer Siberian thrushes such as black-throated or White 's . |
| 3 | Cardiff have always attracted players , but what has fuelled the apprehension of the other Merit Table clubs is that they , along with Newport , are now competing eagerly in the transfer market . |
| 4 | The two men sat on the high wall of the dyke as the dawn came , looking out across the flat expanse of blackened fields , watching the figures move almost somnolently in the darkness below . |
| 5 | The wall clock ticked somnolently in the silence , each movement of the minute hand magnified by the stillness in the office . |
| 6 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 7 | Suddenly , she threw her arms around him and hugged him fiercely in a way she had never done before . |
| 8 | Images of sin , of unwashed bodies locked together in obscene attitudes , apocalyptic denunciations of lust , visions of Else scrubbing herself fiercely in a tin bath , disconnected Bible phrases from his chapel-going youth , coursed through his distracted mind . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , you 're such a baby , ’ Caterina tossed fiercely in the bed , ‘ Tummy rumbles ! |
| 10 | She prodded him fiercely in the buttocks with the tip of her brolly , accusing him of disloyalty . |
| 11 | Their books are usually set nostalgically in the past — the Thirties and Forties are favourite periods — and often feature the perennial characters of fairy tales and nursery rhymes . |
| 12 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 13 | ‘ You have ? ’ she responded , still somewhat in a daze . |
| 14 | As far as his cock was concerned he felt somewhat in the position of a toddler trying to fly a kite . |
| 15 | So , somewhat in the footsteps of the pursuers of Colonel Fawcett , who disappeared many years ago into the jungles of South America , I set out after my man , who had slipped away , sadly and silently , back into the dark continent and seemingly into history . |
| 16 | Growth rates slowed somewhat in the mid-1950s , yet were still in excess of seven per cent . |
| 17 | Through them , somewhat in the spirit of Chagall , runs the aerial preoccupation of romantic escapism . |
| 18 | Wiles , it was hoped , would restore the intended seriousness to Doctor Who , which he felt had been lost somewhat in the wake of the Daleks ' success . |
| 19 | Though the number of Russian diplomatic missions abroad tended to fall somewhat in the decades which followed his death — there were nineteen in 1779 and ( largely for reasons of economy ) only fourteen in 1800 — the country did not relapse into the isolation of the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | The magazine BOMB , no. 5 , 1983 , includes both a full-page black and white advertisement in which Sherman models Issey Miyake clothes , somewhat in the guise of a wrongly strung marionette , and — elsewhere in the magazine — a personal picture in which Sherman appears in the same clothes as an exotic , diva-like force . |
| 21 | Now that the nightmare of her captivity had receded somewhat in the safety of his arms , she suddenly remembered , with painful clarity , the way they had parted , the truth still unspoken between them . |
| 22 | At no time will you lose track of your present persona ; that will remain with you , even if it is somewhat in the background . |
| 23 | But these were matters which preoccupied theologians ( whose intellectual reputation was not high ) , philosophers and artists ( who were admired but somewhat in the manner in which wealthy men admire the diamonds they can afford to buy their women ) and social critics , of the left or right , who did not like the kind of society they lived in or found themselves forced into . |
| 24 | The hierarchy is arranged so that groups of strong and weak elements at the lowest level themselves form strong or weak elements at the next level up and so on throughout the hierarchy , somewhat in the manner of the hierarchical structure of syntax . |
| 25 | The levels detected upstream in the Friends of the Earth study are broadly comparable to those measured by the ministry in samples nearer the coast - where official models would predict a higher amount of radioactivity . |
| 26 | Agents often have authority to bind their principals in ways they should not , they can act wrongly in the exercise of their authority without forfeiting it . |
| 27 | Capers are the unopened flower buds of the plant Capparis spinosa which has a low , trailing habit and grows abundantly in the wild , although it is cultivated extensively in Mediterranean countries , especially Spain and France , where the export of capers is a lucrative business . |
| 28 | I see it fantastically in the pages of books I read and in a true sense I see life through the leaves of the willow tree . |
| 29 | I could make out the Headmaster 's fancy brick chimneys , three shaped like corkscrews , three with brick diamond patterns , also the black branches of the elm tree shining wetly in the light of a precinct lamp-post . |
| 30 | Matthew Truskett , who plays in the national youth orchestra , hopes to study music in a big way and become a violinist ; Janine Peacock , who was principal cellist in the national children 's orchestra , recently played solo in a concert at Stockton Parish Church ; and many others have won singing prizes . |