Example sentences of "in [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A labyrinth of caves known as the ‘ Sassi ’ or ‘ rocks ’ , is hewn in tiers out of the flanks of a deep ravine and linked by a warren of stairways and alleys . |
| 2 | That evening I went to see an old friend ( that is , old in years ) in case out of the experience of a long life she might bring forth words of wisdom . |
| 3 | Karl Heim , German Lutheran theologian , scientist and writer , recounts an incident which occurred in Moscow shortly after the Russian Revolution . |
| 4 | After a previous round of talks , held in Moscow earlier in the month , Niyazov decreed on May 26 that conscripts in the Turkmen armed forces should serve for 18 months ( but for two years with the navy and for one year by those with higher education ) . |
| 5 | For schools to exploit fully the potential of enhanced staffing after a century of working on the basis of n class teachers plus the head , they needed the imagination to conceive of alternatives ; a shift in attitudes away from the entrenched belief in the inviolability and supremacy of the traditional twin roles of head and class teacher ; and the will to enact such alternatives and live with the discomfort which the changing of professional roles inevitably generates . |
| 6 | This involved the multiplication of side altars ( in some seminaries and religious houses literally dozens of small altars were still being constructed in crypts even in the 1950s ) for the celebration of ‘ private ’ Masses . |
| 7 | However , you should not forget that there are low-key happenings which can also make excellent video and help in building up to the climaxes . |
| 8 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 9 | The movement 's two leading figures were ( i ) Peter-Michael Diestel , the last East German Interior Minister who had been ousted as the Christian Democrat ( CDU ) parliamentary leader in Brandenburg earlier in the year for defending former informers of the East German " Stasi " security police against " one-sided " accusations , and ( ii ) Gregor Gysi , leader of the reformed communist Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) . |
| 10 | My approach to Albert Spanswick led to a secret meeting at my house in Fulham just before the TUC Conference in September 1982 . |
| 11 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 12 | It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 13 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 14 | A LORRY driver told the High Court in Inverness yesterday of the night he had been masked , bound and abducted by two men who had threatened to shoot him after his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs had been stolen from Inverness . |
| 15 | Poiana Brasov is a skier 's oasis in Romania just like the small glass balls that you turn upside down and watch the snow fall on the perfect setting . |
| 16 | A speaker at the demonstration compared the situation in Romania unfavourably with the dramatic events unfolding across Eastern Europe and demanded an end to the Ceausescu dictatorship . |
| 17 | Aid worker Rod Jones was expected back in Middlesbrough today after an arduous trip to take milk to Romanian babies . |
| 18 | Wearside Christians will lead a procession to Tunstall Hills in Sunderland today for an Easter service . |
| 19 | Two hundred delegates gathering in Cardiff today for a Euro-Conference on ‘ Sustainability ’ will be told that new planning policies must be used to encourage environmentally sustainable forms of development . |
| 20 | As an economic concept , its fortunes have waxed and waned in response largely to the demand for labour by industry and the availability of labour reserves in the general population . |
| 21 | In-Service needs are ever expanding , in response both to the demands of the national Curriculum , Local Management of Schools and the definition of denominational identity . |
| 22 | If there is such a thing as a simulation in the same relation to suffering as imagination to perception , it is in response not to a real but to a fictitious situation ; it is the emotion of the actor revelling in the part of a tragic hero . |
| 23 | Er in Belgium of course in eighteen thirty erm a nationalist revolt broke out in response really to the French revolution of that year . |
| 24 | He would have enjoyed the odd weekend in Brighton away from the pressures of London life , if only she 'd had a bigger flat . |
| 25 | The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time . |
| 26 | Negotiations had been in progress sporadically since the 1970s and covered property in the areas of East Prussia , eastern Poland , the Baltic states and Bessarabia occupied by the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Since the Board are entering into a Scheme for adult education in co-operation with the LEA in Cambridgeshire much in the same way ( as ) had been done in Bedfordshire it seems as if it might be best for the Board to be recognised as the Responsible Body for this type of course . |
| 28 | The Prince 's speech was understood to have arisen in part out of a series of consultations with leading environmentalists , including Jonathon Porritt , Professor David Pearce , Richard Sandbrook — Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development — and Economist environment editor Frances Cairncross . |
| 29 | It could be in orbit either around the sun or around the center of the galaxy . |
| 30 | The great theme of the advocates of constitutionalism , in contrast either to the theorists of utopianism , or of absolutism , of the right or of the left , has been the frank acknowledgment of the role of government in society , linked with the determination to bring that government under control and to place limits on the exercise of its power . |