Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 2 | ‘ Luck was on your side for once in the form of this remarkable pugilist , this amazing pair of fists ! ’ |
| 3 | Data from HIPE give some indication of where in the hospital service older people are treated . |
| 4 | On the livestock side Stuart Ashworth warned that beef producers should brace themselves for a cut in the Beef Special Premium ‘ the base for Scotland is 244,000 male animals but there will be at least 300,000 head this year so we can anticipate a cut of somewhere in the region of 20-25 per cent in BSP payments . |
| 5 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 6 | She would spend all day with her daughter and then work on her designs until late in the evening . |
| 7 | The only answer was a low shout of many voices from outside in the distance , coming closer . |
| 8 | Who would even remember my name twelve months from now in the midst of another winter , unless in the context of some old dirty joke or dated ribaldry ? |
| 9 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 10 | Haughton-le-Skerne Ladies Guild is to hold a jumble sale on Saturday at 2pm in the church hall . |
| 11 | Haughton-le-Skerne Ladies Guild is to hold a jumble sale on Saturday at 2pm in the church hall . |
| 12 | The only ray of hope which the BDDA perceived in the report was Dr Eichholz 's call for " a close study of all methods of communication including phonetics linguistics , fingerspelling , finger-reading and gesture " , coupled with a recommendation that " fingerspelling ( the spelling and the reading of it ) should be taught in schools at least in the final period of school life . " |
| 13 | In some districts at least in the 1760s and 1770s , jenny spinners could earn as much as many weavers . |
| 14 | The early part of the band 's career witnessed incredible international success , making them undoubtedly the best known exponents of rockabilly in the world — no mean feat for three guys just out of their teens . |
| 15 | I was kind of like in the middle |
| 16 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 17 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
| 18 | I 'M LOOKING FOR MALE AND FEMALE PENPALS from anywhere in the world . |
| 19 | In Cornwall and the Midland Valley of Scotland it has been upgraded to a new digital standard , developed with Bergen University , which permits telephone access to sensors in these areas from anywhere in the United Kingdom or overseas . |
| 20 | Over a third ( 38% ) of visitors came from in or near Edinburgh , but those from parts of Scotland outside the Edinburgh area ( 19% ) were outnumbered by visitors from elsewhere in the UK ( 27% ) , and were only slightly more numerous than those from overseas ( 16% ) . |
| 21 | Beamish was a vice-president of this organization and spoke at several of its meetings on his infrequent visits from abroad in the 1930s . |
| 22 | The population of Greater London grew by 2 million between the wars , 1.25 million by inward migration from elsewhere in the country and 0.75 million by natural increase . |
| 23 | Hateley was one of several players banned from Ibrox until yesterday in the wake of last Saturday 's defeat from Celtic that brought to an end Rangers ' run of 44 games without loss . |
| 24 | This radical treatment ( radical at least in the UK — it has distinct echoes of the accounting used in the old centrally-planned economies of Eastern Europe ) is a result of grafting on depreciation accounting ( and including the depreciation in prices ) to a cash accounting system . |
| 25 | From the United States came reports of the battles on campus and in the south , and writers like jazz critic and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff ; from London came a critique of Wilson 's first stumbling days of power , a concern with the new politics of ecology , the black movement , Vietnam , Algeria , Cuba by then in the sixth year of revolutionary rule — the seizure of Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch by the Director of Public Prosecutions , R. D. Laing on ‘ Violence Masquerading as Love ’ , the campaign to legalize marijuana . |
| 26 | The bulge was taking place about midway in the plaster wall . |
| 27 | I think there 's a need or the County Council considered there 's a need for certainly in the Greater York context , for further guidance to be given to fairly erm assess where the new settlement location er should be . |
| 28 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Ayrshire we are extremely proud of the new hospital which was built from start to finish within five years , a record for anywhere in the country ? |
| 29 | I mean you 're you 're not sort of right in the centre of town , but |
| 30 | I thought it was a towing bar for that , but it 's another boat sort of down in the in the se se harbour . |