Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the Campaign for Real Ale has weighed in in support of the Oxfordshire firm . |
| 3 | Army workers living in in fear of the bombers |
| 4 | John Mackinnon , who did much of the pioneer fieldwork on orangs and gives an entertaining account of his studies in In Search of the Red Ape , theorizes that the early orangs ranged the ground in large bands like gorillas , protected by their giant males . |
| 5 | Around fifty support troops are about to touch down in Split at the start of a six-month tour of duty in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 6 | The court heard Gooch break down in tears during the interview as he said he could n't remember what happened . |
| 7 | The charity 's annual conference was where she chose to make her first public appearance following the controversy and she broke down in tears at the vote of confidence they gave her . |
| 8 | PARDON me if I do n't break down in tears at the plight of the parents who are having to take their children out of private schools because they can not afford the fees . |
| 9 | DESPAIR A starving girl breaks down in tears as the search for food ends with an empty jar |
| 10 | Smith , 20 , from Cheltenham , Glos , and Winter , 19 , from nearby Bishops Cleeve , broke down in tears in the dock at Bristol Crown Court . |
| 11 | The number of injuries is actually going down in proportion to the increased number of skiers . |
| 12 | Or should I perhaps sit down in Salzburg with the empty hope of some better fortune , let Wolfgang grow up , and allow myself and my children to be made fools of until I reach the age which prevents me from travelling and until he attains the age and physical appearance which no longer attract admiration for his merits ? |
| 13 | It was simply that we were shooting the picture down in Brighton on the front to a large extent and on the rubbish dump , I remember , which we turned into the fields of northern France , and we needed that terrible phrase from the First World War , cannon fodder . |
| 14 | The two breakaway parties did not affect the result decisively , as most of the " do n't knows " in the opinion polls came down in favour of the Democrats . |
| 15 | In carrying out the balancing exercise I , for my part , come down in favour of the freedom of speech even though it may go beyond generally acceptable limits , since there is adequate alternative protection available to a council . |
| 16 | When all this has been said , it is still very difficult to see how the Divisional Court in R. v. LTE ex parte GLC managed to come down in favour of the GLC in the face of the unanimous decision of the Law Lords . |
| 17 | My Lords , I found a very interesting er aspect in the Royal College of Nursing 's review was that resources were not the issue , the Royal College itself came down in favour of the fact that it was management that needed to be tightened up and My Lords it was interesting looking at that survey that it was a telephone survey and in one of the two hospitals er one or two of the hospitals that were rung up , it was quite difficult to find the person who 'd answered the survey . |
| 18 | ‘ The Steve Cropper connection came about because he and I got a chance to get reacquainted with one another down in Seville at the Guitar Legends concerts . |
| 19 | It was reported on March 14 that all military exercises were soon to be scaled down in response to the diminishing threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 20 | Population regulation , however , if it has any advantage at all , can only be a long-term one ; it must therefore be a consequence of individual decisions to emigrate , taken on the grounds that conditions will be better elsewhere , not on the grounds that the population level must be kept down in order for the local resources to be conserved . |
| 21 | But the symbolic period point is overstressed to the verge of comedy , when in the final scene of destruction the figures of Marianne with her red cap of Liberty , the skeleton Death with his scythe and the Angel of Justice are hastily let down in tableau from the flies . |
| 22 | But the symbolic period point is overstressed to the verge of comedy , when in the final scene of destruction the figures of Marianne with her red cap of Liberty , the skeleton Death with his scythe and the Angel of Justice are hastily let down in tableau from the flies . |
| 23 | Caroline stared down in dismay at the drink she 'd begun pouring for herself . |
| 24 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 25 | Targets and constraints should be set down in accordance with the ambitions of the development plan . |
| 26 | Attlee commented at the 1943 party conference , ‘ As a matter of fact you can see the votes at byelections going up and down in accordance with the progress of our armies in Africa ’ . |
| 27 | The film is bogged down in exposition for the first hour , remains plodding , and shifts uncertainly between protagonists . |
| 28 | The owners of the mine , Carnon Consolidated , had closed it down in February after the Department of Trade and Industry withdrew financial support . |
| 29 | I was down in Bath with the PM . |
| 30 | She could go down in history as the leader who pulled us back from the brink . ’ |