Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New English Art Club had been founded in 1886 somewhat in defiance of the Royal Academy , and the Fitzroy Street Group was a dissatisfied breakaway from it . |
| 2 | This is somewhat in contrast to the photographs of former collaborator George Sutkus which provide the unpopulated settings , the places which the onlooker can choose to inhabit . |
| 3 | Colonel Goreng , a rural thug with ribbon on his chest and scrambled egg on his cap , was somewhat in awe of the antecedents of his young wife . |
| 4 | He still needs the freedom of a four-year-old , to explore , to laugh suddenly in surprise at the world , to be open , to wander with the secure knowledge of a base to return home to . |
| 5 | However some homes have very high radon concentrations — eg in regions of the country that have high & sup222 ; Rn concentrations and ground conditions that allow rapid gas flow , producing large quantities of radon at the surface . |
| 6 | A Roman Catholic taxi driver was shot and badly injured on Nov. 13 by loyalist paramilitaries apparently in retaliation for the IRA murders . |
| 7 | It was quite out of character when Browning , having tangled with Edwards , aimed a kick , apparently in retaliation at the Cranleigh player right in front of the referee John Ford . |
| 8 | One of the candidates this year is the entire population of Peking , apparently in keeping with the tradition of off-beat nominees for the prize . |
| 9 | I met the governor — although he is now more generally called the ‘ Principal ’ , apparently in keeping with the educational and rehabilitative emphasis which this particular centre tried to use with its inmates . |
| 10 | This was apparently in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling which legalized US government-authorized abductions abroad [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 11 | On July 7-8 some 650 Albanians who had attempted to cross without documents into the Greek districts of Ioannina and Thesprotia were likewise deported , and on July 10 some 2,800 Albanian citizens employed in Greece were sent back to southern Albania , apparently in co-ordination with the Albanian local authorities [ see also pp. 38690 ; 38775 ; 38830 ; 38920 ] . |
| 12 | Apparently in deference to The Builder 's comments , the submission date was extended and designs had to be inscribed with a motto and delivered to Westminster Hall on or before 20th March , 1857 . |
| 13 | The Doctor explained to the colonel apparently in charge of the troops that he was the scientific advisor for UNIT . |
| 14 | The decline in smoking prevalence and tobacco sales is particularly significant because in March of this year , the Health Department reported that there had been a 14 percent rise in tobacco advertising during 1990 , apparently in anticipation of the advertising ban . |
| 15 | As the east European member states of the former Warsaw Pact and Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA , or Comecon ) continued to experience severe economic difficulties in their transition to free-market systems , concerns were expressed during January and February at a series of incidents in which arms manufactured by those countries were supplied to Middle Eastern countries , apparently in contravention of the existing multilateral arms control provisions . |
| 16 | German officials reported on Jan. 29 that a German freighter , the Godewind , bound from Szczecin in Poland for Syria , had been found to be carrying 16 Czechoslovak-made T-72 tanks for the Syrian armed forces , apparently in contravention of the Czechoslovak government 's promise to end such transactions . |
| 17 | This will be discussed below in terms of the interaction between the focusing and inference components of a system . |
| 18 | Ministry seems to have grown up in a haphazard manner , basically in response to the need that various functions be performed . |
| 19 | ‘ I can remember when that did n't seem so unlikely , and I thought , well , if anything like that does ever happen , and they 're right and the establishment is wrong , then it would n't do any harm for there to be people like me in the Army who were basically in sympathy with the … movement , whatever . ’ |
| 20 | There 's this guy there called Les , now it was put to us when we were down there last time that erm , attending this meeting when it happens would be er one Nigel , who 's , I do n't quite , I ca n't remember what he 's picked for , erm he 's actually been promoted , he 's pretty senior , he was basically in charge of the product engineering at , and he 's now been promoted so that puts him even further up the ladder |
| 21 | Their destination lay patiently in wait on the grey crest of the downs , while below , across the broad green Kennet valley , they approached along winding lanes through slumbering villages . |
| 22 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 23 | Anonymity lasted until 1967 in The Times and for nearly as long in parts of the other quality papers . |
| 24 | We lingered too long in Livadià on the way , by the charming waters of memory and forgetfulness , and were too late to see the sports at Arákhova , with the very old men running to win a lamb as a prize . |
| 25 | Moreover , part of a statute incorporated by reference will be construed in accordance with the ordinary canons of construction as applied to the lease , not necessarily in accordance with the way the statute itself is construed ( ibid ) . |
| 26 | Not necessarily in terms of the way the job is done , but in the cost banks really are expensive if you 're minded to use a bank they do publish their tariff , they say they give them out to people , I suspect that it gets forgotten sometimes the principle is there the is n't . |
| 27 | The guns were loaded , their portfires smoking gently in readiness for the French . |
| 28 | Early Han overian governments could be viciously repressive , especially in Scotland after the Forty-Five , but their very unpopularity made them careful about the way they treated English grievances . |
| 29 | Extreme emotional withdrawal , or suicidal depression ( sungun ) , is viewed as a common affliction of those whose desires have been thwarted , especially in affairs of the heart . |
| 30 | The third challenge was posed by moves towards economic integration , especially in Europe from the early 1950s . |